Chapter VII The lesson that mankind has learned from history is that mankind never remembers the lessons of history
"Hans~Hans~" Jean's call drew Hans's attention back, "The first priority is not to focus on the past and future that are neither pursueable nor accessible, but to do a good job in what is clearly at hand.
Things. This was the first lesson my dean taught me when I was in college."
"Thomas Carlyle's famous saying, he was a Scottish philosopher, critic, satirist, historian, and teacher in the Victorian era. His attitude towards life is: We have no ability to prevent what has already happened, but we do have the ability to
Change the impact of what has happened on our current lives. Accept what has happened, and change can change." Seeing the confusion on Hans's face, Meryl explained, and then Meryl looked at Jean again, "You
But I never said that you took history or philosophy as an elective in college."
"Well, I haven't studied it... This is the motto of my dean and tutor. I think you should still remember that our dean is your alumnus." Jean said with some anxiety.
"Oh! I forgot that your dean studied under William Osler at Oxford." When the topic turned to Jean's university days, Meryl frowned and looked very ugly. But after Jean mentioned her dean,
, Meryl's expression softened a lot. Meryl's eyes turned to Hans on the screen again, "Baby, you probably don't know that your dad graduated from KCL Medical School. His dean's teacher--"
"Look here." Hans showed the notebook to the screen.
"Wikipedia? This is... the life of William Osler!?" A sense of frustration suddenly surged into Meryl's heart, and she said helplessly: "Is this the information found through keywords...
...OK, I understand you know who he is, baby, let your dad continue..."
"Ah? Oh!" Jean, who was reading the encyclopedia information, heard Meryl ask him to continue. He turned his eyes from the encyclopedia page to Hans in a daze, "What I want to say is, don't always think of other things because of
aspect, just put the current problem aside. Otherwise you will be like..."
"It will be like a black bear breaking corn with his arms, breaking off a stick and throwing the stick away." Jane started to help her husband improve the metaphor. "Son, first finish the point you wanted to express before, and then think about what you said.
The problem of mad cow disease. Your father obtained a double degree in MSc Biomedical and Molecular Science and MSc Genomic Medicine at KCL. He will definitely understand the seriousness of the problem you are thinking of!"
"My point of view is very clear, that is, the inherent goodness of human nature as you know it is itself a self-denial of mankind!
The cruelty and tyranny of human nature is innate to us primates. It is deeply rooted in the biological instinct that we inherited from the DNA of Australopithecus apes. When enhanced by thinking, its lower limit will be even worse than animal nature. Today's world
In the past, it has been conclusively discovered that only two mammals will spontaneously organize to commit genocide of their own kind: one is us humans, and the other is chimpanzees.
Nowadays, the propaganda of many environmental and animal protection organizations has caused many people to have a misunderstanding: humans developed industry, and it was modern industrialization that destroyed the environment and caused mass extinction of species. Before the development of industry, we got along well with the world.
Nonsense, in fact, many species in this world were extinct by human ancestors during the Paleolithic Age.
Although many people today wear glasses, ties, and books, and look quite polite, in fact we humans are a very vicious and terrifying species. We show no mercy to other species, let alone other species.
No mercy, no mercy to other races. Not to mention other races, no mercy to ourselves. When we go crazy, we even beat ourselves up. We want to fight just because of different ideologies and religious beliefs.
Kill the opponent completely!
The goodness of human nature is created by the restraint of human thinking on its own desires and the wild instincts of creatures. It is also influenced by thinking to raise its upper limit, and only then will famous great ideas such as Datong Society and gczy be born that transcend biological instincts.
theory.
But you cannot ignore the low limit just because the upper limit is high. Your evaluation of human beings is based entirely on emotion and is irrational. You can only have purely subjective thinking that is completely divorced from objectivity. Even if the development of human beings in different universes is not exactly the same, your biased thinking is completely correct.
The elves are misleading, this is simply murder!" Hans's answer made Jane break out in a cold sweat!
"Baby, do you think humans are the cancer of the earth?" Meryl asked with a slightly melancholy expression. "You..."
"No, I never thought about it that way." Hans' tone was very calm. "The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Before the birth of human beings, it experienced countless disasters, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and geological reconstruction.
, plate drift, sunspots, solar flares, magnetic storms, magnetic pole reversals, super floods, super fires, comets, meteorites, asteroid impacts, cosmic radiation, and various sandstorms and wind erosion, etc., are enough to wipe out life on earth countless times.
of devastating disaster.
On the scale of the universe, human beings will always be extremely small. Human beings are insect-like existences in the context of the universe. But we should not forget how our ancestors came from a group of other biological groups that were equally small but far stronger than ours.
Stand out and finally stand at the top of the food chain.
Of course, humans are also great. The great thing about humans is that we invented science, art, ethics, and law. We can invest our limited time in medicine, law, business, engineering, etc., which are enough to support a person's life.
In the noble pursuit; we can also find the meaning of our lives in poetry, beauty, romance, and love.
What we have to do is to use these beautiful things we have created to suppress the truly dark and terrifying side of our hearts. Of course, this is also the dignity of our human civilization. But this does not mean that we have washed away the human self.
The cruelty that comes from our ancestors and is engraved in our genes."
"What!?" Jane asked with a puzzled face.
"Why did humans develop from the form of beasts in the Paleolithic Age, where they were eating hair and drinking blood, to the later farming civilization?" Hans saw Jane's confused face, and asked and answered: "Because of the large-scale hunting in the Paleolithic Age,
The resulting extinction of large animal species made it increasingly difficult to obtain food. After humans realized that it was difficult to survive by hunting alone, they began to try to cultivate crops and domesticate wild animals. This was what was later developed in Asia and Europe.
The main cause of agricultural civilized society.
Comparing it to Africa, where humans originated, the black tribes did not enter the agricultural society until the Age of Discovery because they could obtain enough food by hunting alone, or even just from a wild fruit forest. The history of different ethnic groups followed different paths.
The reason is the difference in the national environment, not the biological differences of the nations themselves.
In the same way, the difference in development between people does not lie in the physiological differences between people, but in the environment in which they grow up. Because of this, the social structure of contemporary human civilization is pyramid-shaped, and the top part of the pyramid is always
No longer exploiting the lower classes by chewing their bones and sucking their marrow, and trying every means to obstruct the flow of social hierarchies. In addition to the more advanced methods, full of deception and concealment, its essence is still the cruelty derived from ancient humans in the Stone Age. This
Everything completely reflects Hegel's famous statement-"
"Da die Geschichte die Eige, repetiert zu werden, nge, bis die Lektion begriffen wird." A string of words that Hans didn't understand came out of Meryl's mouth, "Baby, I guess this is what you want to say.
In a word, history has a tendency to repeat itself, and it will continue until the lessons are learned.”
"Uh--that's right? I'm more familiar with another translation." Hans tried hard to make his expression more serious, but everyone could see that he couldn't help but want to laugh. "Human beings have learned from history.
The lesson learned from this is: Human beings never remember the lessons of history.”