Social progress and development are always accompanied by transformation and elimination.
This point was also very clearly mentioned in Yu Gege's "Freedom Awareness", and based on this, he extended his predictions about some people or institutions as a whole that are being eliminated or will be eliminated in the future.
This is also the core content of the last part of the second volume of "Self-Awareness".
Zhuo Zhiwen's notes here clearly summarize the objects that Yougege predicts will be eliminated.
The first type of people who are being eliminated by society are those who stay away from the Internet.
Yougege explained here the importance of the Internet in human society as a whole, and asserted that in the future, humans will exist in two worlds at the same time, and everyone will have two identities.
One is the actual ecological society on earth, and the other is the network society created by humans themselves.
And with the emergence of the network society, virtual regimes and even virtual countries will be born. This concept is by no means absurd, but an unavoidable reality. Even if the physical regimes of various countries deny it, virtual regimes will still appear. Virtual regimes will still appear.
Nations will still be born.
And they are by no means "playing house" in some online game, but a real "country" that can interfere with the ecological society of the real earth.
The second type of people are cultivators, which we usually call "farmers".
The concept of farmers will continue to be retained, but in the future, with the birth of intelligent machines, the concept of smart cities will be realized. The profession of "farmer" will no longer exist in the real human society, and all food planting operations will be completed by intelligent machines.
, while humans move up a level and become the terminal managers of intelligent machines.
At this time, a city may only need two or three people, or even supervisors from other departments may be responsible for compatibility management, to meet the city's own food supply.
This is not a fantasy, but some areas are actually already doing it.
The first thing Zhuo Zhiwen thought of here was China's professional farmers.
Although people are still working now, if we want to transition to the future state conjectured by Yougege as quickly as possible, China's approach is obviously faster and smoother.
The third type of people are those with low consciousness.
Here, Yougege explains in detail the "enlightenment" she describes.
If human society wants to progress, it must eliminate the vicious cycle as much as possible and move toward overall harmony and stability.
At this time, an individual's ideological consciousness level becomes an indicator of the overall progress ability of society.
If the self-interested social atmosphere caused by the low desire caused by the gap between the rich and the poor is to be reversed, it cannot be accomplished by a certain political system passing a single policy at a voting conference.
Rather, society as a whole needs to be aware of the seriousness of this vicious cycle.
Here, although Yougege did not specifically explain how to make everyone aware of this seriousness, she mentioned a very important point, which is to return social education to its true appearance.
"De-commercializing education, de-profiting it, exalting the identity of educators, and making education subjects family-oriented" are important elements in returning to the true face of education.
The significance of teachers to human civilization is very profound.
This is what Yu Gege wrote in his book.
"If society as a whole thinks that education is a factory that delivers resources to society, then this kind of education has completely failed from the beginning. Educators think that their work is no different from other people's, and they all make a living.
, then this is the tragedy of educators. Similarly, educated people and their families think that they are the ones being served, and education is just a risky investment with no considerable returns yet. Then this is the tragedy of society. What is even more terrible is that
It’s not just two concepts that are sad, but the identity of educators is single and family education is seriously lacking. Some people have said that the most terrifying thing in the world is that people who have never received professional training suddenly become parents and fail.
In life, despicable habits are passed on in the family environment. The family tradition of a family determines the role of the next generation in society. This is the beginning of a vicious cycle."
Zhuo Zhiwen strongly agrees with this.
Because she vaguely remembered a speech she heard from her mentor at the graduation ceremony.
At that time, the instructor said a very small thing.
These include littering, spitting and other uncivilized behaviors on campus.
To be honest, most people are tired of hearing about this kind of topic, but few people really realize the problems behind this small matter.
The instructor said: "When I was very young, my mother told me that throwing garbage anywhere and spitting were very impolite and uncivilized behaviors. I should be ashamed of it. So when I grew up,
I was restrained by this sense of shame in public places, which is why I have the self-discipline I have today. However, I found that many classmates do not have this sense of shame. They never think that littering, spitting, or even urinating in public are harmful.
What is shameful, especially after seeing his own kind, he feels that this is the right thing to do. I feel ashamed for you. You are like a group of orangutans who have just lost their hair. You are not wearing any clothes.
For you, there should be nothing to be ashamed of, because that’s what you are!”
Before the speech was over, there was an uproar in the venue, with some applauding and others booing.
At that time, Zhuo Zhiwen felt very relieved, because she also felt that "freedom" in a certain sense was just a "fig leaf" for some bad behaviors.
Now when I read Yougege's book, I suddenly realized that behind the so-called trivial matters are actually social problems.
The result of the vicious cycle is that spiritual and moral education has been lost, and its authenticity has been lost. Subsequently, education has become material and instrumental, which will bring suffering to everyone in society.
Maybe someone here will question, will the rich pay the price for this vicious cycle?
Yougege did not give an answer, but she cited arguments similar to those of "anti-three seasons" to denounce the followers of "anti-intellectualism."
One of the words that impressed Zhuo Zhiwen the most was "Don't regard your little effort today as a desperate effort. In fact, you have just been lazy for too long and forgot to think."
These words can be said to be very harsh.
Even as you read this, you have the urge to hit someone.
Because this book is neither funny nor will it make you feel benefited. It just tries to irritate you again and again and make you feel ignorant and worthless.
But if you really give up reading here, your loss will be too great.
At first, Zhuo Zhiwen looked at it out of curiosity, and due to her own habits, she didn't notice the change in her personal mood at all.
Unknowingly, it was already two o'clock in the morning, but Zhuo Zhiwen didn't feel sleepy at all.
So she continued to read "Self-Awareness" and her own notes, but unknowingly she had forgotten her original intention of reading this book.
In order to find "clues".
After talking about three types of people, Yougege also predicted three types of institutions as a whole.
Here, Yougege is really "bold" to the extreme.
The first thing she mentioned was that in the distant future, after humans have truly achieved interstellar navigation, or confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, and conducted third-type contact, the human concept of "country" will be eliminated.
A community of shared future is the main structure of the future of mankind.
Unlike some other speculative writers, Yougege does not believe that human beings will still be as "divided" and covet each other as they are today in the era of star civilization, because she thinks that kind of thinking is backward and even ridiculous.
Just like a group of children moved several big countries to the galaxy, human beings are still in a state of amusing themselves, and the struggle is still going on.
However, in Yugege's view, it is obviously not enough to describe scientific progress simply by using quantitative changes to lead to qualitative changes. Many times, the burst of science occurs at a very unexpected time node, and the revolution it brings is not through
We can look forward to the future based on the existing foundation.
Just like what she mentioned before, humans will live in two worlds in the future.
As some technologies gradually mature, there may be some people who no longer exist in human society. They can completely become online citizens through technologies such as "consciousness uploading". [ps: Similar to humans in Gaia
The numerical world in the period of star civilization]
This conjecture was not first proposed by Yougege. She just summarized it and further confirmed this possibility in detail.
And since our imagination is often limited, humanoid aliens are just a backward idea.
So how can we be sure that Yougege’s idea is correct?
Here, Yougege made a rather bold assumption.
That is to use the story of "Turkey and Thanksgiving" to describe human beings themselves.
Human understanding of the world is a simplified process. Many years ago, when we didn't know what the sun was, there were many legends that gave simplified explanations.
In the East, such as in Chinese mythology, the sun is a bird, while in the West, such as in Greek mythology, the sun is pulled through the sky by the sun god on a carriage.
It was not until much later that the concept of science appeared, and human beings began to continuously explore and discover, and made many impossible possibilities possible.
The sun finally had a concrete and real concept.
But compared to scientific explanations, it seems that a bird or a fireball pulled by the sun god on a carriage is more attractive.
So even in the scientific age, when the first black hole photo was released, without considering those professional data, people let their minds go and imagined, and the not-too-clear black hole photo became a variety of things.
Such interesting stuff.
Therefore, in an essential sense, humans and turkeys are no different. They both discover and understand the world on the same basis.
Turkey scientists are also "great" because they can figure out which days there will be fresh food and water and realize that this is a pattern.
But in human eyes, this rule is a bit cruel...because turkeys don't know Thanksgiving.
So in comparison, is the world we exist in all?
In other words, will the "black holes" we observe be different from real black holes? Will we have a "Thanksgiving Day"?