Chapter 54: Purgatory Rebirth

Today it was Seth's turn to take care of Mike and release Mike, but when he got into the secret room, he was startled by the sight in front of him.

"Wow!, how can you make so many bottles of hanging needles!" exclaimed Seth

"What can I do! He didn't eat or drink and had a fever. This bottle is fever-reducing, this bottle is anti-inflammatory, this bottle is nutritional, and this bottle is calming and soothing. Jessica reluctantly pointed to the four hanging bottles on Mike's head and said

Earl Kidd jumped out of Seth's pocket and advised, "Mike, don't blame yourself too much. There is no savior in this world. I don't know how many wars and strife I have experienced. The world is chaotic and unreasonable. Whether or not we can survive in this unpredictable and chaotic world, we may only be lucky in the end. ”

"Maybe the Shark Emperor is right, we ordinary ants have become more and more unable to contribute to today's rapidly changing society, and it is only a matter of time before we are eliminated..."Mike replied dejectedly

"That's not it! You're misunderstanding me! You know, the Wright brothers, who invented airplanes, were just two bicycle repairers. When Newton discovered the law of gravitation, he was just a college freshman who had taken a leave of absence. There is also Albert Einstein, who proposed the theory of relativity, and at that time he was just a small civil servant who couldn't even pass the university teacher exam (the job was only found through connections). Not to mention the poor Copernicus, who had been a little priest all his life, and only dared to show his heliocentrism when he was almost at the end of his life. Even Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution they talked about, was only a hairy boy in his early twenties when he came up with this theory, and his wife had been divorcing him for this matter. The list goes on and on, and I could tell you about it for a few days and nights. It's all the dicks in your mouth who are changing the world again and again!It's just that the people behind only care about the glory of their fame and forget that they are actually each other's origins. ”

"Yes, yes, you look at the news, isn't this the most powerful deadly avian flu virus that has just been extracted from an ordinary little girl? Seth showed Mike his phone

"Well, I think that Columbus, who lobbied everywhere for ten years and no one cared about it, deceived the Queen of Spain into funding, and the original destination of the voyage was the East Indies, but he went in the wrong direction in a daze, and landed in the New World of America by mistake. And he named the indigenous people of that continent Indian, which in Spanish actually means Indian. There is also a hot pot that is just like the hot pot that is popular now, which originated from the scrap ingredients discarded by the nobles into the river, but in the hands of the common people downstream of the river, it was magically made into a delicious dish. Not only that, but I've also read a lot of historical books about this kind of record!" said Yu Ya hurriedly

Mike seemed to have an epiphany all at once. Staring at them with light in their eyes.

"Earl Kidd, Rain, tell me about the real history!" Mike said excitedly, pulling the two of them happily

In this way, Kidd and Rain from the origin of human beings - orangutan to ape, to the age of gatherers, the age of agriculture, the age of empire, the age of industry, the age of information until the present, allow Mike for the first time to look down on the long history of human evolution from the logical logic of the back to which he is accustomed to it. Mike was surprised to find that the entire evolutionary process of human beings was not as linear as the brilliant achievements created by the elites of human society step by step according to the plan. On the contrary, true history is more like the growth pattern of a silkworm chrysalis, first metamorphosing into a cocoon (accumulating the energy required for qualitative transformation) and then evolving into a butterfly. The reason why humans can stand at the top of the biological chain is not because of their innate advantage, but because they are more likely to make "mistakes" than other species. More specifically, it is more sympathetic and benevolent to the "wrong" kind, thus preserving the multiple possibilities of evolution to the greatest extent, i.e., diversity. In contrast to the lion king's choice of killing other lion cubs who were not related to him, the ancestors of mankind chose the opposite path of never giving up feeding the weak old and other people's children. Even if these other people's children are "mistakes" who have just learned to walk, who are faltering, and whose pelvis is "deformed". (In order to evolve to walk upright, the pelvis has become much narrower than that of the ancestral orangutans, that is, the birth canal has become smaller, so in a way, today's humans are premature babies with incomplete skulls, that is, incomplete bodies.) However, it is precisely this kind of acquired brain that develops after the birth of the womb that makes the human brain capacity have a greater space for development than any other species can match! In other species, such 'inferior' individuals will long be eliminated internally, and they will never be given any opportunity to renew and iterate) Like sheep, horses, cattle, deer, etc., which are not fiercely fighting internally, their total number of species will be relatively large. On the other hand, the number of lions, tigers, and eagles, which are the most predators, is pitifully small, because the rest of the same species in these populations do not waste time and energy to provide a space for the development of these useless individuals who have degenerated into 'cocoons'. So, it's not the lions that rule the forest, it's the huge animal groups that feed these species at the top who believe in the 'Matthew effect'... Isn't it by helping each other and cooperating with each other that the largest number of human beings today have grown step by step to become the largest population on the planet?

Mike remembered the earlier battle in the jungle, where the civilized tribe not only did not want to lead the primitive tribe forward, but wanted to return to the slave society. This suggests that competition does not always lead to evolution, but rather that unlimited power can lead to social regression. But most people today mistake competition for evolution itself, which is a big fallacy!

And the industrious and honest old couple who can't sell good products shows that the monetary reward system that has always been tacitly acquiesced: whoever contributes more to society will get more corresponding benefits, has been monopolized by a few people who have mastered the loopholes in the social wealth distribution mechanism. As a result, the entire virtuous cycle of the closed-loop system of money has been destroyed, resulting in the gradual disappearance of most ordinary people at the bottom, that is, consumers. Next, as the total consumption in society decreases, the aggregate demand also decreases, and of course the production capacity is overcapacity. Then company closures, factory layoffs, and worker strikes abound, so that the total number of consumers decreases even more quickly.

Science and technology, which is becoming more and more developed, can help people improve the quality of life and reduce the huge contradictions in society. But at this time, it has become a sharp blade (robot) used by a few people to replace ordinary labor, and it has stabbed most ordinary consumers in the back. Therefore, the entire financial system has evolved into a vicious circle of terrible 'cannibalism', rather than the financial system of the past, where the fruits of labor are shared, and whoever contributes more will be rewarded more. One of the many contradictions of today's Great Depression is to add more consumers and break the current terrible vicious circle! But to achieve a breakthrough, we must first provide a space for sustainable development for the 'wrong' individuals who are not currently useful, as our ancestors did. It has two functions, the first is to rapidly increase a large number of consumers and maintain the normal operation of the financial circulation system. Second, it will provide reserve personnel for talents who will change qualitatively in the future.

In short, evolution actually takes two people to complete - first, it takes a 'fool' to make a genius-like 'mistake', and then a 'genius' to continue and refine this 'mistake'! The core logic is that the default world is disorderly and constantly changing, and each person is a carrier of unique DNA, that is, a carrier of possibilities. When the chaotic evolutionary scissors of the world are raging on the earth, what we human beings have to do is to protect the one in a billion possibility of 'wrong' that can perfectly adapt to the next era - that is, the possibility of returning the possibility!

Mike finally understood why the sages of ancient times had unanimously enshrined 'benevolence' and 'love' as the supreme pursuit. It turns out that they are not beautiful words, but the secret of why human beings can stand on the top of all souls! It's a pity that this original intention has gradually been forgotten by those 'extremely smart' people in the world...

"In fact, I really think that in recent decades, although the progress of science and technology has been unprecedentedly fast, people's imagination and creativity seem to be gradually declining because of the prevalence of 'take-it-or-leave-it' on the Internet. Recalling the Age of Discovery, the king set up a huge prize to reward the whole society for the design of the sailing clock. That is really an era of innovation in which everyone actively participates and bursts with imagination everywhere. And the rural carpenter named Harrison even invented a clock that was more accurate than Big Ben!

During the day, he was constantly discussing various problems with Earl Kidd and Rain (the two are like two huge libraries, ancient and modern, constantly providing Mike with nourishment for thinking), and at night he sat alone in the darkness of the secret room, meditating on the small motor in his head at high speed. He finally understood the essentials of the evolutionary strategy of retreating before babies need to actively lose their balance before they can crawl forward. And the baby who spends more than a year developing a temporarily useless brain, and gives up the priority development of limb escape skills, will never be able to achieve it if there is no adult who gives up a good time to hunt and devotes himself to creating a space for the baby's willful development! It seems that it is not the original orangutan who can climb trees the most, but the stupid orangutan who is the most 'unprofessional'. He frowns, laughs, gets angry, and is lost in thought. No one knows how Mike spent the next two nights. But in the early morning of the third day, they were surprised to see a reborn Mike in the dark temple.

"Let's go, let's go back to the country of Islam. Time is running out for us!" Mike said confidently as he walked out of the dark room.

The sun he hadn't seen in a long time stung Mike's eyes, but he took a deep breath of the fresh earthy air outside, and strode out of the ancient temple.