200 years ago, people began to worship the power of science, followed by a century of rationalism carnival, people tried to use science to speculate everything, use science to speculate the direction of human historical development, use science to speculate the context of human thinking, use science to explain the feelings and ethics that human beings once felt could not be measured by reason, people believe that according to everything known, we can infer all unknown affairs.

So, some say, history is over. All of us know the direction of historical development, and as long as we start for that direction, we can reach the perfect ending.

Therefore, the task of mankind is actually very simple, to speculate on when we will reach the end of historical development. Optimists feel that it will only take 20 years for history to be rewritten, and pessimists dare not make assertions – but everyone believes that sooner or later history will reach its final apex.

Do people prefer to believe the optimists' predictions or the pessimists' predictions when they know the happy ending in advance? The answer is obvious, everyone can't wait for the happy ending to come – so when the optimists tell us that we can build a utopia in 20 years, people don't hesitate to follow the optimists.

Of course, it is clear that even now, 100 years later, we still cannot see the end of this scientifically predicted history.

And so the huge theory of the behemoth called rationality, which tried to give a rational explanation of history, collapsed. No one believes in the so-called end of history anymore, everyone is starting to pay attention to reality, but the obsession with reason still dominates our minds, and if history is too large to be predicted by reason, then if it is just trivial, if it is just reality, we feel that we can grasp it.

Too many people believe that the world is a world of rational people, and that rational people will only chase the options that are best for them – and until now, many people are convinced of this and think they have the truth of the world.

So-called, everything I do as a rational being is just repeating the history of human arrogance.

Just as a hundred years ago someone felt that he had discovered the law of historical development and confidently declared that he had arrived at the history of human development through his own reason, I felt that I had discovered the optimal solution for the people around me, and I pushed everyone in the direction of this optimal solution. Both are equally arrogant.

Of course, I'm actually much worse. Because, theoretically speaking, the end of history, until the moment of the end, people will know whether history has an end, and all the previous mistakes do not prove that history has no end, only that history did not end at the moment when those prophets prophesied. The people who created the theory of the end of history are still waiting for history to prove it, and I, who gave the optimal solution to all the people around me, have proved at the moment that the result is not optimal—perhaps the worst, or the worst.

Of course, if I had to compare myself to the prophets, what we had in common was probably that we ignored human emotions. If you use the rationalist mode of thinking to understand human beings as highly rational beings, then the results may be different, but human beings are never a simple part of a collective, and for people, emotions will easily overcome reason - not because people who focus on emotions do things wrong, but because only when the two develop at the same time can a person's true thinking mode be constructed.

Man is not just a creature of profit - of course, in a broad sense, all human actions can be explained by interests, and my definition of interests here is mainly interests that are not emotionally gratified. People may be more interested in their own ethnic and cultural identity than in terms of economic needs, and they may be more concerned about the bonds between relatives than in terms of status, so when the prophet simply sees man as a homogeneous actor, he is wrong. The same is true of the mistakes I made.

I've never thought that reason isn't important – but if there has to be a so-called "right" conclusion, it's not just because of reason.

As for how to get there—actually, I should have known it a long time ago.

Follow your heart's thoughts, that's all. Your greedy, evil ideas that will hurt other people and the collective will eventually be denied and sanctioned, and then you will know that your ideas are wrong. But if you prescribe an absolutely correct idea in advance, you will not compromise when you are denied, when you are sanctioned, and your intransigence, sometimes, will brew the wrong behemoth.

There is nothing wrong with ideals, but if you believe too much in your own reason, you can end up brewing a monster that is even more terrifying. For, when you claim to know everything through reason, reason itself is lying to you.

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Well, the routine ending ends, and the next volume lasts. In addition, there will be no secondary two chapters in the next volume.,The protagonist said goodbye to the second secondary two (probably) (of course, it's actually that I can't write this kind of thing myself.,laughs.)。 As for the content of this chapter, it only represents Kazuya's views, and does not represent the author's thoughts (serious face)