Answer to readers’ questions: Analysis of the correlation between agricultural society and Longhan Heavenly Court, and please give me monthly votes!
Some readers said that it took millions of years for the Longhan Celestial Palace to develop, but the Shen Dao method was not as good as Yankang's hundreds of years. They were very puzzled. Some readers explained it, but they didn't explain it to the point.
Zhai Zhu would like to talk about some basic knowledge of sociology and economics here.
Professor Wen Tiejun is an expert in agriculture and economic analysis. When Zhai Zhu was listening to his lectures online, he heard a short story about an isolated rural village in Myanmar. When outsiders walked into the village, they discovered this
The social structure of rural areas has not changed for hundreds or even thousands of years.
This simple social structure is so stable that it is not destroyed by external forces, forming a self-consistent and self-sufficient ecological system.
This society is self-contained. Villagers' production and exchange all take place in the village, and they rarely need anything from the outside world.
In fact, this is a closed internal circulation system. Internal forces are not enough to change the social structure. Without the intervention of external forces, this social structure will continue.
It will not give birth to technology, it will not innovate, it will not invent things like lights, telephones, televisions, mobile phones, and the Internet.
This is actually a problem that combines sociology and economics. Breaking this internal cycle often requires external intervention.
A similar social structure is the feudal dynasty period in China. Of course, the feudal dynasty was much more complicated than the village just given as an example.
The two thousand years of feudal dynasty were not as developed as the one hundred years of technological society.
Rural society lacks a driving force to enter the scientific and technological society. There is no demand, no social atmosphere, no scientific concepts, and no motivation.
Zhaizhu designed the Longhan Heavenly Court with reference to this rule.
When the Longhan Heavenly Court was formed, it was ruled by ancient gods, forming a stable ruling system of ancient gods-demigods-mortals.
In this stable system, the ancient gods hold power and have no motivation to develop new magical power systems, and the ancient gods have no motivation to improve the living conditions of mortals and demigods.
Therefore, the ancient god ruled for a long time and seemed very stable, but conflicts were accumulating.
This is an unstable closed form.
Those who want to develop magical powers can only be mortals or demigods.
When mortals and demigods grow up, they will want to have power and become ancient gods.
When mortals and demigods become rulers, the social structure will form another closed form. The ruling class that occupies resources and capital will form an extremely stable structure that does not allow outsiders to come in and divide the interests.
When this class controls too many resources, the class will become self-enclosed. This is due to the incomplete formation of the Long-Han Revolution.
Because these mortals and demigods adopted a "gentle" way to seize power and replace the ancient gods they originally hated. In fact, they have become the people they once hated.
Have you discovered the wonder of this social structure?
A rules BCDEF, B replaces A and rules CDEFG, C replaces B and rules DEFGH.
This is the model of dynasty change.
And when B replaces A, he becomes a person similar to the ancient god. He will be the same as during the ancient god's reign. He will have no motivation to develop new magical methods, nor to improve the living conditions of mortals.
B just wants to maintain the current status.
This is the reason why the reform method will not rise in the Longhan Heavenly Court, and also the reason why the Shen Dao method is not as fast as Yankang in innovating the old.
If you observe the real world, you will find that there are many examples in reality, and many countries have similar patterns. These countries are often countries where the agrarian revolution has not been complete.
India's non-violent non-cooperation movement allowed India to gain independence. However, the people who ruled India changed from the British to the upper castes.
The Mandela Movement in South Africa made South Africa independent, and the rule of South Africa changed from white people to white people and a small number of indigenous aristocrats.
The speed of development of such a society is not comparable to that of China (Yankang).
Yankang has always been in danger, internally, externally, and even more externally. Some reformers continue to change paths through reforms to make society progress and develop.
The existence of external forces causes the social structure to continuously change.
In fact, it is only an accidental event with a small probability that human beings enter the scientific and technological society. When we enter the interstellar era and travel in the starry sky, we may find that most of the living planets are in closed social structures.
The age of technology.
I can’t say more, I don’t want to write a paper to make everyone sleepy.
Just make it clear.
In addition, let me solve another problem for readers.
Why didn't Taozu discover the Taiwei Sutra?
The Taixuan Suanjing and Taiwei Suanjing in the Mu Shen Ji draw lessons from two kinds of real-life mechanics, Newtonian mechanics and quantum mechanics.
Why didn't Taozu discover the Taiwei Sutra?
This sentence should ask, why didn't Newton discover quantum mechanics?
Newton lived for eighty-five years, and classical mechanics has been structured to perfection. Scientists at that time said that the mysteries of the universe have been completely solved by us. Later generations of scientists will be very pessimistic to see that all their efforts were based on classical mechanics.
renovations in the building.
It was not until the emergence of Einstein who discovered special relativity, general relativity and quantum mechanics in his 10s and 20s that scientists discovered that this high-rise building was far from being built, only a foundation was laid, and even the foundation was crooked.
Therefore, Newton did not discover quantum mechanics and Taozu did not discover Taiwei Suan Jing for the same reason.
Newton established a system of classical mechanics. It was difficult for him to break out of this system to discover other broader fields. The same was true for the many scientists who practiced classical mechanics after him, and they could not jump out.
The emergence of Einstein and Niels Bohr created quantum mechanics.
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