Chapter Final
200 years ago, people began to admire the power of science, and what followed was a century-long carnival of rationalism. People tried to use science to deduce everything, use science to deduce the direction of human history, and use science to deduce everything.
Beyond the context of human thinking, science is used to explain emotions and ethics that humans once thought could not be measured rationally. People believe that based on everything known, we can speculate on all unknown matters.
Therefore, some people say that history is over. All of us know the direction of historical development, and as long as we set out for that direction of development, we can achieve a perfect ending.
Therefore, the task of mankind is actually very simple, to speculate when we will reach the end of historical development. Optimistic people believe that history will be rewritten in just 20 years, while pessimistic people dare not make assertions, but everyone believes it
, history will reach its final climax sooner or later.
When knowing a happy ending in advance, are people more willing to believe the predictions of optimists or the predictions of pessimists? The answer is obvious, everyone is impatiently looking forward to the arrival of a happy ending. So, when optimists
When they tell us that if we work hard for another 20 years and Utopia can be built, people follow the optimists without hesitation.
Of course, it is obvious that even now, 100 years later, we still cannot see the existence of the end of history predicted by science.
As a result, the behemoth called rationality, the huge theory that tried to give a rational explanation to history, collapsed. No one believed in the so-called end of history anymore, and everyone began to pay attention to reality, but the obsession with rationality still dominated
Our thinking is that if history is too vast to be predicted rationally, then if it is just trivial matters, if it is just reality, we feel we can grasp it.
Too many people believe that this world is composed of rational people, who will only pursue the option that is most beneficial to them. Until now, many people still firmly believe in this and think that they have mastered the truth of the world.
So-called, everything I do as a rational being is just repeating the history of human arrogance.
Just like someone a hundred years ago felt that he had discovered the law of historical development, and confidently declared that he had derived the history of human development through his own rationality, I feel that I have discovered the best solution for the people around me.
, thus pushing everyone to move in the direction of this optimal solution. Both are equally arrogant.
Of course, I am actually much worse. Because, theoretically speaking, people will not know whether history has an end until the end of history. All the previous mistakes cannot prove that history has no end, but can only prove that,
History did not end at the moment predicted by those prophets. Those who created the theory of the end of history are still waiting for history to give themselves a proof, and I, who gave the best solution to everyone around me, the moment I got the result
, it has been proved that this result is not the best, maybe it is the worst.
Of course, if you have to compare me with the prophet, what we have in common is probably that we ignore human emotions. When you use a rationalist thinking model to understand human beings as highly rational people, then maybe the result will be
It becomes different, but people are never a member of a simple group. For people, emotion can easily defeat rationality. This is not because people who pay attention to emotion are doing something wrong, but because only the two are at the same time.
Only through development can a person's true thinking model be constructed.
Humans are not just creatures who pursue interests. Of course, in a broad sense, all human behaviors can be explained by interests. The definition of interests here is mainly interests that are not emotional satisfaction. Compared with economic needs, people
People may pay more attention to the cultural identity of their own ethnic group. Compared with the improvement of status, people may pay more attention to the bond between relatives. Therefore, when the prophet simply regards people as a homogeneous actor, he
I made a mistake. The same goes for the mistakes I made.
I never think that rationality is unimportant, but if there must be a so-called "correct" conclusion, this conclusion is not only drawn because of rationality.
As for how to find out the truth, I should have known it a long time ago.
Follow your inner thoughts, that's all. Your greedy, evil thoughts that will hurt other people and the collective will eventually be denied and sanctioned. At that time, you will know that your thoughts are wrong.
However, if you have stipulated an absolutely correct idea in advance, you will not compromise when being denied or sanctioned, and your intransigence will sometimes create a huge mistake.
There is nothing wrong with ideals, but if you believe too much in your own rationality, the monsters you create may be even more terrifying. Because when you claim to know everything through rationality, rationality itself will not respond to your needs.
You are lying.
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Well, the routine ending ends, the last volume of the next volume. In addition, there will be no second chapter in the next volume. The protagonist bids farewell to the second chapter (probably) (of course, I can’t actually write this kind of thing myself, lol
Chapter completed!