But when Chu Yanran continued to scroll down this report, she found that people did not seem to be so repulsive to that unbearable past. Some people who had personally experienced the "cold winter" for ten years even expressed their nostalgia.
Articles from this decade.
Chu Yanran was not very interested in these at first, but when she saw Yougege's comments in this article, she opened it almost subconsciously.
The article is very short and roughly tells the story of the growth of a Chinese boy born in 2022.
In this article with 200 million views and tens of millions of likes, the author Zhong Chuqi did not express any personal views on AOA or government policies, but intuitively recounted some of his life experiences.
Among them, what impressed Chu Yanran the most was the ten years after the data destruction.
As a young and promising banker, Zhong Chuqi should have suffered the same tragic fate of being thrown to the rooftops by the rioting people like his boss, but he survived by chance and used big data to destroy his name and take his family to the
A small village settled deep in the mountains.
As if to protect the location of the small mountain village, Zhong Chuqi did not introduce its geographical location, but only wrote about his ten years of life experience in the village.
Originally there should have been a long record here, but Zhong Chuqi only used very simple words to tell the most true and beautiful part of the past.
Among them was this sentence that Chu Yanran would never forget.
"Emotion should be our greatest advantage, but the original law of superiority over inferiority has been enshrined, so... when technology abandons us, we who no longer serve as components of this cold machine can only be forgotten in fear
, the meaning of life should not be like this, but we are all like this...but fortunately...everything that should stop has stopped, and we can finally raise our heads and see the color of the sky."
This sentence seemed familiar. Chu Yanran thought about it carefully and then remembered that this was what her grandfather Chu Hongjun often talked about before.
"Meaning is indeed something that cannot be touched, but what can be seen is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation. Eating good and bad is all for the sake of fullness, but there are always some people who regard indulging their appetite as freedom.
, and don’t even think about how terrifying they look when they are feasting..."
Chu Yanran couldn't understand it before, but slowly she seemed to understand.
Desire is actually something that is often hidden very deep.
It doesn’t mean that I can control my desires if I can control myself from breaking laws and disciplines... Actually, there are many kinds of desires.
For food...for beauty...for power...for money...all these are desires, and obviously we can't tell the difference between career, love, money, and beauty.
What an old joke this is.
Chu Yanran didn't even remember when she heard it...
But now that I think about it carefully, I feel terrible...when most people treat this as a joke and laugh at the hypocrisy of the literati.
As everyone knows... Only those who are self-disciplined are entitled to have a career and love, while those who are indulgent are only crazy about money and beauty... There is an essential difference.
therefore……
Looking at this passage from Zhong Chuqi again, the tumor of capital continues to expand, and the primitive law of survival of the fittest continues to erode people’s consciousness. In the end, how many people will
Can you see the end of this vicious cycle?
Open Yougege's comments.
There are only a few short sentences.
Yougege's words were as naked and harsh as ever.
"After reading this article, I remembered a question from a reader. He asked: 'What is the vicious circle caused by capital solidification?'. I didn't know how to answer it for a while, but today I seem to have the answer.
.
It is a brutal evolution.
The possessors of capital can allow their offspring to undergo genetic modification before their mothers give birth to embryos, so that their children will be much better than ordinary people from birth.
These new humans have higher IQs, better looks, and higher physical statistics in all aspects.
So they are natural geniuses, models, athletes, and they also have better immunity than ordinary people.
But the problem is that only a handful of people can accept this sky-high price of transformation, while most people will be slowly eliminated in an asymmetric world...
New humanity rises and old humanity is eliminated.
This is evolution. If you still don’t understand what a vicious cycle is, why not imagine first, do you have the capital to make your descendants new humans?”
…
The world is never fair... Especially after reading You Gege's comments, Chu Yanran was even more certain of this.
Some people say that death is fair for all.
But in fact... while the pharaohs were enjoying their offerings, the pyramids were already telling the world that even if I die, my tomb will be much bigger than your little box.
What's more, genetic modification... Yougege thought of Turaya... thought of the golden birdcage... and for a moment, his mind was filled with negative energy.
But when these negative energies reached a critical point, Chu Yanran suddenly became calm again.
In fact, the relationship between human ethics and technological development has always been a lover's relationship.
Human ethics and morality are not always noble, and scientific and technological development is not always without merit.
The question is, how do we look at this problem...
The ten years of "cold winter" have given the world time to reflect. As Zhong Chuqi said... everything that should stop has stopped...
After the fireworks dissipated, the starry sky remained the same.
We all still have to move forward, but when we hit the road again, can we deeply remember the cause of these ten years?
…
Continuous high-intensity use of "Sawya" made Chu Yanran's brain feel a little uncomfortable.
She opened her eyes, took a deep breath, and drank some water.
Looking at the time, it was only more than half an hour. It seemed that Minister Li's meeting was not over yet, so Chu Yanran decided to continue. She wanted to complete the supplement.
…
November 1, 2055.
"Explorer 1 sets sail"
For a long time after the end of the decade of freezing, the world was in a state of slow recovery.
The world's total population has finally rebounded. [ps: During the ten years of freezing, the world's total population once dropped to about 4.5 billion, of which China's population once dropped sharply to about 930 million.]
Although the data destruction has dealt a painful blow to the whole world, fortunately, the foundation of society is still there, and the recovery situation is much better than many experts expected.
Moreover, the new global co-prosperity architecture proposed by China has gained support from many countries around the world, including the United States, Russia, etc.
With the support, the overall state of the world can be described as thriving.
After eliminating intergovernmental games, battles between interest groups, and technical barriers between countries, people finally have enough time and awareness to consider our common future issues.
The "Explorer 1" project is the most representative of them.
Explorer 1 is a great project proposed by the China National Space Administration, with key technical support provided by the China Space Department of the National Security Office, and jointly participated by NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency.
Its core consists of three parts.
First, confirm the direction of exploration, and use super cosmic observation equipment such as China's Tianyan-2 fast-2 and the American Pradas Space Observatory to conduct a macroscopic search of the universe. The goal is to find solar systems and confirm Earth-like planets.
Secondly, build a "Prospector 1" quantum spacecraft that can perform across star fields.
Finally, "Scouter 1" carried the ultra-long-distance quantum communication equipment and set sail to the target galaxy to find a new home.
But there is one thing that makes Chu Yanran very puzzled...Why after so many years, human beings have once again begun to march into outer space with great fanfare?
Are we no longer worried about the "Law of the Dark Forest"? Or are we actually determined to fight to the death with the idea of "progress or death"?
After much deliberation, Chu Yanran really didn't understand.
But when she opened the comment section, it suddenly became clear...
It turns out that it is because a new progressive law has appeared that can compete with the "Dark Forest" law and even subvert it.
This is the "law of critical transcendence".
Before introducing the "Critical Transcendence Law", we need to first have a general understanding of the "Dark Forest" Law.
The so-called Dark Forest Law is based on the premise that there are multiple levels of civilization in the universe. In other words, we must first believe that there are alien civilizations outside the earth that are much more powerful than humans.
Secondly, the resources of the universe are relatively limited, so the entire universe is like a dark forest, and different civilizations are in a state of preying on each other.
In this case, whoever makes a sound first exposes himself and will be attacked by other civilizations.
This law is vividly reflected in the novel "The Three-Body Problem".
But it is precisely based on the above two premises that some people have raised objections, that is, even if there are hierarchical divisions in cosmic civilization, if humans want to resist, they still need "three-body" time, that is, we need to know that we are about to be invaded.
Then prepare for defense.
But later, when the "dimensionality reduction strike" appeared, humans suddenly realized that the absolute gap brought a new awareness, that is, "Destroying you, what does it have to do with you?"
Just like the various mass extinctions caused by human beings after they became strong, I will not destroy you because you pose a threat to me. It may also be just because I want to build my factory in the space where you live, so you
was destroyed, and unintentionally.
At this time, humans do not have the "Three Body" time, and we may not even be able to observe who is "annihilating" us, what it looks like, and what weapons it uses.
It's like a human killing a beast with a shotgun. The beast may never understand how a human without fangs ended its life with a fire-breathing pipe.