Chapter 397 Hypocritical civilization [4500 words for monthly ticket]
Chen Feng thought about it for about five seconds.
But in the end, he did not stand up to clearly support Elon's point of view. He only said in a very vague way: "Dr. Elon's analysis has some truth and is in line with my personal speculation, but there is currently no conclusive evidence." Dr. Elon said
I saw some mysteries that others can’t see, and they don’t exist.”
"I just synthesized the results of predecessors and added some of my own bold speculations to arrive at these conclusions. But since I named the book "Madman's Conjecture", it means that these theoretical knowledge are all very arrogant on my part.
Bold speculations still require everyone’s joint efforts to prove or falsify them one by one in the coming years.”
His words were very conservative and did not stamp Aeron's views.
Of course, this once again showed his crazy side.
He thus admitted that the relevant knowledge in the fields of physics and biology in "The Collection of Madman's Conjectures" were all conjectures without rigorous proof.
Skip rigorous scientific experiments and give answers directly.
He seemed very swollen.
If someone else was talking nonsense like this, they would definitely be spitted to death.
However, all the mathematical problems he solved in "Conjectures" have been verified one after another.
One after another, the verification calculations of Chen's theorem are being serialized in several top mathematics academic magazines at the rate of one episode per week.
A person who can achieve such achievements in the field of mathematics at the age of twenty-five, even if he seems to be talking nonsense in other fields, people will inevitably think about it for a while before questioning him.
Yi Lun was obviously a little disappointed with Chen Feng's attitude, but he didn't say much. After almost finishing the question, he walked down and sat next to Chen Feng again.
"Mr. Chen, what are you..."
After enduring it for about two minutes, Ellen finally asked.
Chen Feng smiled and shook his head slightly, "The time is not ripe. You think about the problem more from an academic perspective, but I can't just consider these. In the current era, social productivity is not enough, and there are still many conflicts that need to be resolved. For example, between countries
, between classes, between skin colors, and even between two adjacent regions in the same country, there will be conflicts that are higher than competition. Until these problems are solved, neither ordinary people nor leaders can bear it.
This matter."
Aeron nodded.
He understands.
He had previously felt that Chen Feng, in addition to being a musician and scientist, could actually become an excellent politician.
That seems to be the case now.
He can always stand at a higher perspective and look at everything from a more comprehensive perspective.
"I didn't consider it carefully. I thought this was a good opportunity before, so I made a rash decision. I'm sorry."
Chen Feng shook his head, "It's okay. This further proves that you are a professional academic worker."
"Humanity is extremely lucky to have an all-around perfect leader like you."
"Thank you for your praise."
While the two were communicating in low voices, the semi-academic and semi-casual speech on the stage continued.
There were not many participants, but they were all elite scholars from all over the world, and those who could speak on stage had something to say.
About an hour later, Chen Feng heard another interesting argument from a senior figure in social sciences and economics.
He did not rush out of his professional field to prove the existence of aliens, but spent five years completing a large-scale social experiment.
Today is the day for the publication of his final report.
This meeting was also convened by him.
His social experiment contains two aspects.
First, as many as 500,000 volunteers were invited to participate in the experience in a remote town.
The content of the experience is a regularly unfolded themed life simulation, titled "What if the end of the world will arrive in ten/hundred/thousand years".
The volunteers participating in the experiment ranged from billionaires to homeless people, perfectly simulating a small social community.
In five years, the boss held a total of twenty-one social experiments in the small town, each focusing on the suspense of these three time periods.
Second, there are millions of large-scale questionnaire surveys, and the survey content is consistent with the theme of simulated life.
These two aspects of content complement each other, one is theoretical calculation and the other is practical exercise.
The experimental results are very interesting, showing extremely diverse and three-dimensional feedback.
People's feedback shows great differences depending on the age of the apocalypse and the differences in the volunteers' own conditions.
Assuming that the end will come in ten years, the vast majority of ordinary people who accepted the themed life simulation and questionnaire survey said that it will be ten years from now, and they have to consider it, but it cannot be the whole of their lives now, and they must solve the immediate problems.
Credit card bills, and when you have some extra money, you will quickly stock up on more guns and ammunition, and then go to the countryside to find a safe place to stay.
If you are single, you may finally add the idea of going crazy when things really happen.
If you are a middle class person, you will try to maintain your own business and career, still hoard guns and ammunition, and try to form your own team.
If he is a big businessman from the upper class, he will try more alliances based on the preparations made by the middle class, and quickly spend money to fund Musk's research and exploration of space travel as soon as possible.
If you have the chance, you must get a ferry ticket.
When this question was changed a hundred years later, people's feedback changed.
People without assets tend to just not think about anything. It will all happen after their death. How can they care so much about what they should do.
The middle class will probably add one more thing, that is, not to leave any descendants, so that future generations will not suffer. As for themselves, try to spend all their money when they die.
The big bourgeoisie still sponsors space projects and remains enthusiastic about the future.
Now change the question to a thousand years later.
Most people's answers are very straightforward.
A thousand years? What is that? What does it have to do with me? My ashes will never see that day.
Just dealing with the current bills, work, and business is enough to make me overwhelmed. Will I care about things a thousand years from now?
Crazy?
Chen Feng was not surprised at all by this result.
This is the way normal people think.
When he traveled to a thousand years later twice before, his thoughts were similar to this.
Just living in reality is tiring enough, so there is no time to worry about the flood after death.
But the scholar on the stage listed some interesting phenomena.
All walks of life have similar views on the end of the decade, but some people show obvious differences on the century and millennium.
This group of people said that they should work harder, find ways to create more value, and try their best.
There are not many people who say this, but you can still find a lot of differences.
For example, some big businessmen and politicians can speak beautifully, but they are so beautiful that they reveal strong hypocrisy. Their essential intention is to obtain immediate visible benefits, such as money and fame, through self-packaging.
Some people's answers were more constructive, and they immediately began to use their brains and kept asking in what form this "doomsday" will come, how to avoid it, and how to fight against it.
Most of these people are scholars, and they must be very successful scholars.
The boss who gave the speech finally concluded this way: "It took me five years to complete this social experiment, and the results are not optimistic. I think that when the crisis is far away, only food and clothing, and a certain level of knowledge, and
Only people with extremely high personal moral qualities can consider a relatively illusory sense of responsibility."
“But when a crisis is imminent, almost everyone will quickly fall into apocalyptic fear. We will see the collapse of social order, the streets will be filled with gunfire and fire, robbery will become a job, and the lives of similar people will be lost.
Respect. Maybe before the real doomsday comes, our population will have to drop by at least half."
This scholar's view is very pessimistic.
Chen Feng, who had witnessed doomsday scenes many times, did not refute him.
First of all, the doomsday assumed by this scholar does not actually exist.
According to his description, this is first of all an irresistible doomsday.
But the facts that Chen Feng saw in the future proved that when technology is developed enough, everyone can have enough food and clothing, and can receive higher education, and people do not need to rob each other to obtain sufficiently favorable material conditions, as long as there is enough time
After completing psychological construction, even if faced with an irresistible and time-predicted doomsday, human beings will still bite the bullet and want to try. It is commonly said that they will not die until they reach the Yellow River.
In addition, the economist from Oxford University made another mistake.
His experimental locations and questionnaire surveys were both limited to Europe and North America, and the vast majority of those surveyed were native English speakers.
This scholar ignored the Chinese-speaking population, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's total population.
Therefore, his large-scale social experiment, which seems to be of great reference value, is actually biased.
Chen Feng intuitively believes that if he asks the same question to native Chinese speakers, he may get completely different answers.
The development of a person's three views is highly related to the environment he has been exposed to since childhood and the education he has received, and it is also closely related to the type of his mother tongue.
Human thinking needs to be based on the medium of language.
The principles and philosophy in people's hearts are not empty concepts. They should also be self-summarized theories based on different language structures.
These theories constitute a person's code of conduct and will determine the direction in which he thinks and makes decisions when facing each choice.
People with different native languages can easily show completely different ways of dealing with the same problem.
There are great differences between Chinese and other language families in many aspects such as pronunciation, text pattern, sentence expression, logical structure, and emotional display.
Chinese is a fast language that favors accurate expression and is more specific.
English is a slow language that favors extended metaphors and is relatively abstract.
Chinese speakers tend to simply focus on the present, which seems practical.
Native English speakers tend to focus on the future. Native English speakers with broad enough knowledge and high sentiments tend to focus on the future. Therefore, when European and American scholars face the "doomsday problem", their performance does not disappoint.
But unfortunately, the largest number of people in the world are still ordinary people with relatively narrow knowledge levels.
Therefore, ordinary English-speaking people are easily immersed in the fear of abstract intensification, and have no time to think about any sense of responsibility.
According to Chen Feng's calculations, ordinary Chinese native speakers will be significantly different from ordinary English native speakers.
It’s not that the proportion of native Chinese speakers can be reversed, but the proportion focusing on the future and focusing on the present will be much higher.
Because Chinese can think of problems quickly enough.
When a person's overall knowledge level is narrow and his understanding of the nature of the world is not so deep and extensive, the fast structure of Chinese can make it easier for people to think about the future.
The slow structure of English makes people's thinking have to stay more on collecting the information that needs to be collected at the moment, and make slow decisions on the problems that need to be solved at the moment, that is, the repayment of credit cards and so on.
But at another level, through observation of the future, Chen Feng believes that top scholars, whether they are native Chinese or English native speakers, can actually focus on the present and focus on the future.
When speakers of two native languages reach the pinnacle of their respective academic fields, they are no longer on par.
These people have sufficient knowledge and a broad enough worldview to transcend their own limitations.
At this time, the influence of mother tongue structure on people's emotions will be minimized.
In fact, there is a new logical paradox hidden here.
Are people with more knowledge more moral?
This is not the case.
Knowledge cannot cultivate morality.
Morality comes from the education a person receives from childhood and self-study as an adult.
The richness of knowledge does not completely represent the nobleness of morality.
It just means that people with high morals will add some extra sense of responsibility to themselves as a driving force when learning knowledge. These people will have a higher concentration in learning knowledge and a higher degree of desire for new knowledge.
Therefore, the proportion of top scholars with excellent moral standards is relatively high.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t scumbags among scholars, individual cases still exist.
Although Chen Feng thought this in his heart and was a little unconvinced, he did not stand up to refute the opponent on the spot.
When the meeting was over, he took the initiative to communicate with the Oxford professor.
He expressed his doubts in private and invited the other party to return to China with him and conduct this kind of social experiment in the Chinese native language department.
The Oxford professor had already given up on this idea, but he could not refute Chen Feng's doubts and only said that the funds were limited.
"Don't worry about funding, I'll take care of it. We'll skip the small-town model social experiment and focus on questionnaire surveys, and strive to come up with conclusions within a week."
Professor Oxford narrowed his eyes, "Mr. Chen, are you sure you don't want to beautify your motherland?"
Chen Feng shook his head, "That's why I invite you to come instead of coming in person. You will be solely responsible for the final statistical results. I will only watch and never interfere. This will be more convincing."
"good."
Chen Feng rolled his eyes and decided to take care of his alma mater.
“Let’s just cooperate with Jiangnan University in Hanzhou?”
"No problem. My team hasn't been disbanded yet. When will it start?"
Chen Feng blinked, "Now."
Some things that may seem big to ordinary people, at Chen Feng's current level, actually only take a few sentences.
…
Nine days later.
The number of questionnaires in China is as high as one million, which is of great reference significance.
Looking at the results in front of him, the Oxford professor was dumbfounded.
Chen Feng, on the other hand, was very happy and filled with emotions.
Without comparison, there is no gap.
Although the vast majority of native Chinese speakers do not show a particularly obvious tendency when facing the crisis after a century/millennium, they basically agree with the idea of working hard, strengthening learning, and trying to realize more self-worth.
Less than 30% of people show obvious disregard for matters that have nothing to do with themselves.
As for the crisis ten years later, the performance of the Chinese Department did not disappoint. Almost no Chinese showed obvious violent tendencies in the face of this irresistible doomsday.
In fact, there are still some, but this violent tendency is more inclined to the "enemy" whose situation is unknown behind the doomsday.
If they are completely unable to resist, most people prefer to stay with their families at the last moment.
The Oxford professor was very dissatisfied with the survey results and angrily accused, "The Chinese are so hypocritical!"
Chen Feng did not deny, "This may be really hypocritical. But if 70% of the people in a huge civilization are willing to be so 'hypocritical' and spend their lives in 'hypocrisy', it has become a kind of hypocrisy."
degree of sincerity. Isn't it? Businessmen are hypocritical in order to obtain more immediate benefits, but the proportion of the 'hypocritical' population in China is so large, can we gain more benefits by being hypocritical? Even if this is the case, what will you do?
Are we letting go of our prejudices because of our 'hypocrisy'?"
