Chapter 741: Thinking Differently Again
It is well known that the Roman Empire, after annexing the civilization of the Greek city-states, had a considerable experience of assimilation - in the assimilation of the occupied areas, among the many gods of the native religion of Rome, it was easy to find the gods related to the original religious beliefs of the peoples of the land being annexed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 It can be said that Rome, with its huge number of gods in the Roman divine system, was unable to resist the assimilation of civilization in the long run, even if it would have been hindered for a while in the era of general ignorance and ignorance.
Under this polytheistic belief system, Rome inherited Greek philosophical ideas, making its technology and culture more dynamic and innovative. In a way, it was the annexation of Greece and the adoption of a model of religious pluralism for relatively peaceful integration that allowed the Roman Empire to flourish in technology and productivity, and then became a vast empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa.
However, polytheistic belief systems were easily defeated by a single belief system, especially in those days, so the decline of Rome was doomed when Catholicism was recognized as the state religion by the Roman Empire and began to purge its vast empire of other religious beliefs to fulfill its monotheistic policies.
The most obvious example is that the Norse mythological system of the Germanic barbarians has not been integrated into the European mythological system, such as Odin, Valgoure, etc., which are still in circulation today, and look at the areas occupied by Rome before, except for Egypt, which repeatedly rebelled and developed an independent civilization system before the rise of Rome, the primitive religion is almost untraceable.
But it is undeniable that the monotheistic belief system has a cohesive effect on countries with a large territory, in fact, China's Confucianism is actually his monotheistic thought, and Confucianism has a certain degree of merit in stabilizing the various empires in history, just like after Catholicism became the state religion, although the Roman Empire was not enterprising enough, the scale and frequency of rebellions in the occupied territories decreased significantly.
However, the monotheistic ideological system had a natural exclusivity, which made foreign races such as the Germanic barbarians not recognized and accepted by the Roman Empire. In fact, if the Roman Empire had not recognized Catholicism as the state religion and helped spread it, but had continued to follow the polytheistic religion of the original Roman Empire, the various Germanic tribes would have been integrated into the Roman Empire long ago. In other words, while following monotheism is more effective for the stability of a large territory, it also loses the convenience of integrating with other belief systems, and the Germanic barbarians are actually an intractable difficulty of the Roman Empire itself. The Germanic tribes were clearly identified from the first day they came into contact with the Roman Empire, ensuring a considerable degree of independence and sowing the seeds for them to be treated differently, discriminated against, and later subverted the entire empire.
Of course, some people will say that not all the Germanic tribes who overthrew the Roman Empire, but also the Huns from the East, which is true on the surface, but as I just said, the Roman Empire has lost the ability to quickly integrate new subjects because of the Catholic religion, so the above is who is the gravedigger at the root of the Roman Empire's ideology.
As for why Confucianism in China can be integrated with foreign races, didn't it just now say that it resembles a monotheistic ideological system? That's right, but don't forget, the Bible of Catholic fundamentalism has a clear text that says that nonbelievers will be killed, just like the ancient scriptures, but Confucianism emphasizes internal cultivation, and does not particularly advocate starting to preach by arresting a random person, and people say that they don't want to listen to it anymore, and Confucianism thinks that I will not pass it on to you anymore, and I will not take out a knife and stab him to death. In other words, while Confucianism is exclusive, its exclusivity is far less stringent than the true monotheistic mode of thinking.
Throughout human history, all open-minded forces have a strong ability to integrate foreign ideas and provide a steady stream of impetus for the development of their own races, even if the later Catholicism went through the Reformation, that is, the Renaissance movement, it still has such characteristics - but due to the innate exclusivity of monotheism, the Renaissance with the Black Death pandemic as the fuse seems to have allowed Europe to flourish for nearly three hundred years, but there is such a fact: the Renaissance is the beginning of a deeper imprisonment of human thought.
The thought mentioned here is not the thought of free will, but the deep-seated, uncontrolled subconscious, which is the ability of human beings to involuntarily distinguish between you, me and him - many human behaviors will be unconsciously influenced by the subconscious, and Catholicism and its kind or derivative religions will to a large extent restrict the subconscious of their followers, and then the mind will also be constrained.
In fact, from the first day of its appearance, religion has the function of restraining the subconscious mind and then regulating people's behavior and choices. Relatively speaking, the only difference between a polytheistic system and a monotheistic system is that a polytheistic system has a lighter constraint on the subconscious.
However, it is undeniable that monotheistic religions are to some extent more effective than polytheistic religions, especially when maintaining a fixed, impossible to expand notification area. At the same time, however, when monotheism is dominant, the extermination efficiency for non-believers will be very high.
In fact, Germany and Japan during World War II can also be regarded as monotheistic, which is why their "efficiency" is so high, because, as I said earlier, the most obvious advantage of monotheism is that it allows believers to quickly distinguish between friend and foe, and what to do after distinguishing between friend and foe...... Obviously, a monotheistic belief system would be a little more thorough than a polyone belief system.
But because of the exclusivity of the monotheistic belief system, it is difficult for it to enter the regions with which there are other modes of thinking that are on par with it according to the norms of behavior propagated by its teachings, and it must be relatively peaceful at the beginning in order to spread in the new system, otherwise it will be rejected by the new system because of its exclusive mode of thinking. The most obvious example of this is the religious wars that have occurred in history and continue to break out from time to time even in the twenty-first century.
When religion itself is exclusive, the behavior and habits of believers, because of their subconscious influence, in addition to being able to distinguish between you, me and him, will also show significant exclusive characteristics, so I just said that logically speaking, the core idea of Nazi Germany is no different from the idea of exclusive religion.
From a logical point of view, the system implemented by Phoebe in Titan is actually very similar to the Nazi era when the German people were organized by the Nazis to participate in collective activities, so that they could not have time for independent thinking, of course, it is also because Titan is keen to organize collective activities, so the participants of the neo-Nazi organization will be familiar with and stay in Titan so quickly, if it were ordinary German people, they may have reported to the authorities a long time ago- Almost every year in Germany, there are films and television works that reflect on fascist ideas, and as recently as 2008, the Germans made a film "The Wave" based on the three-day fascist experiment conducted by American teacher Ron Jones in high school in 1967, which made Germans feel that they had inherited the deep sins of their ancestors in their lives.
In any case, the external environment has created that Phoebe can do whatever she wants in the ideological field of Titan employees, and the employees are unprecedentedly united around Phoebe, the "new head" in their minds, so they will not easily accept outsiders when recruiting personnel, as for Titan under the leadership of Phoebe, cooperation with the military and police, and was watched in "Mein Kampf" unilaterally lifted the ban within Titan Employees believe that this is a necessary process on the way forward of Titan, so the people of Titan have no resistance at all when carrying out Phoebe's extermination order, which causes that after the establishment of Titan, although it rarely takes the initiative to attack anyone, some lives will be lost every month because they are too close to Titan, especially after the gravity core of the Atlantic Floaters is activated.
In a word, although the Titan can cooperate with outsiders under Phoebe's orders, the exclusivity of Titan is still quite obvious.
Fortunately, Phoebe understands that if she crosses the line on the issue of personality cult, it can easily lead to Titan getting out of control and reappearing in a situation similar to World War II - don't forget, Phoebe's real purpose in establishing Titan is to hold up an effective umbrella for Girls' Generation or Sister Sun in any situation, not to really have any sympathy for German or pan-Germanic ideas.
Of course, due to the appearance of Barbara, Phoebe's original intention has changed slightly, but Barbara is "too uncompetitive", she has made it clear that her biggest ideal is to follow Phoebe forward like everyone else in Titan, so Phoebe does not have to make a major change in Titan's behavior pattern because of Barbara as the basis of logical thinking, and the purpose of Titan's existence is still for Sister Sun.
However, if Titan stagnates, it will naturally be encroached upon by various allies now, just like the human body itself cells will also have a "war", in fact, not only Titan but any power group has a strong exclusivity, and the same is true for human cells. Cells that rely on the principle of osmosis to absorb nutrients from the outside world do not care whether the nutrients they absorb come from the same kind or not. Because all a cell can do is try to absorb everything from the outside world, including nutrients from other kinds. In fact, the human body works by constantly replenishing the cells that are absorbed, so that the cells are in a dynamic equilibrium, so that the cells appear to be safe. However, if a person's brain is pumped, such as when using starvation therapy to lose weight, many cells will not consume themselves according to the body's subjective ideas - which one is weak, which one is dead, there is nothing to discuss.
Therefore, in order to keep a protective umbrella for Sister Sun, Phoebe naturally wants to let Titan continue to develop, and this development, just like human cells, cannot be stopped once it starts.
As I just said, a monotheistic mode of thought will hinder development and be more inclined to maintain stability, so although Phoebe does not allow the Titan to have a personality cult against her, she has asked Asteria, who is in Titan's unique network, to often mention words like "Phoebe thinks", "Phoebe thinks", "Phoebe said", "What would happen if Phoebe" and so on, and used this subtle way to firmly control the subconscious of the Titan people.
As I said before, Phoebe can't remember faces, so she values the loyalty of employees more, but there is a problem, how to determine whether a person is loyal or not?
In the eyes of many, this problem is difficult to solve, after all, it is difficult to know what is in a person's heart, but in Phoebe it is not a problem.
Just as Phoebe established the normal physical state of her sisters and Barbara by touching her neck, Asteria has a logical circuit for sampling various information about Titan employees, but instead of measuring body temperature, heartbeat, and skin conductivity like a lie detector, it establishes a measurement benchmark through a series of complex physical manifestations related to the subconscious and autonomic nervous system, such as the amplitude of daily limb movements, the volume of sound, the frequency of urination, the number of snorkels, the amount of sleep, and so on.
Anything that is near the baseline can be considered loyal, and anything that changes drastically for no reason can be considered either sick or disloyal - of course, this is only one of the methods of Asteria surveillance, so the judgment of loyalty is not only that.
But what I want to say here is that the hierarchical structure of Titan's markers is not meaningless, and the employees above the red level are actually all employees who have obtained a comprehensive measurement benchmark for Asteria, while those below the red level are still in the "inspection period".
From a certain point of view, employees in Titan are like playing idle games, in the game you can only experience those elements specified by the developer, unless you turn off the game, otherwise all your choices can only be carried out in accordance with the framework specified by the developer in advance, and all your behaviors, there are also corresponding ways arranged by the developer in advance to deal with them one by one, but as long as you stay, no matter what, you will level up, even if you don't move, isn't the idle game still automatic?
However, unlike the game, in the eyes of the employees of Titan, it is very good to stay in Titan, on the one hand, Phoebe really took them out of a different path, and nine out of ten people in Titan have participated in neo-Nazi backgrounds, they are people who are dissatisfied with society, and they are more likely to identify with closed and organized life, coupled with some unique technologies of Titan, which makes employees feel really superior, which is somewhat in line with the Germanic supremacy in the ideology of Nazi Germany.
Note that this is a missionary model, after the establishment of a diocese, the previous and newly established dioceses will train new missionaries at the same time, and then go to the new place to preach after the training, which makes the monotheistic religion gradually advance level by level, and the way the human cell population obtains nutrition is like this- Of course, in fact, there is more to it than that, but in any case, the way of absorbing nutrients by relying on the permeability of cell membranes is more like a monotheistic way of transmission. As for polytheistic religions, they are a bit like cancer cells......
In Phoebe's view, this already efficient model is still low-level, and it is not at all comparable to the model in which she can directly control every cell and can actually command each cell, so Titan's control of employees seems to be a monotheistic model on the surface, but in fact it is carried out by Asteria's standard information base, similar to the model of cancer cells......
This model also has the advantage of being able to make their own choices within the limits of allowability, and can provide Phoebe and her AI software with essential ideas, or ideas, without having to be bound by monotheism to generate free will - of course, when the kind of free thought that causes infidelity is generated, it is quickly discovered by Asteria and the "brainwashing" of the employee.
This is what Phoebe said does not prohibit "free thought", as she said, she is not creative herself, she is just an engineer who has an advantage over others when it comes to assembling all kinds of creative discoveries, so she needs to provide her with creative thinking not only from Titan, but also from the whole human society.
So, Phoebe never really intended to create any major extinction catastrophe, as for the existence of the Atlantic Floaters, yes, just a backup, after all, she is not crazy, but what if someone else is crazy?
Phoebe on TT91 reviewed her recent plans, and after sobering up from her contemplation, she saw Barbara staring straight at herself with the brown sports glasses she had been wearing, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Barbara raised an eyebrow and said, "I find you sexy and attractive when you think." ”
"......" Phoebe shrugged, she knew Barbara was okay and liked to flirt with herself.
Seeing Phoebe shrugging her shoulders, Barbara smiled again: "However, I found that after wearing brown eyes, it will calm people down, so I didn't pounce on you just now~"
Phoebe rolls her eyes at Barbara this time, and she finds that as the wedding date approaches, Barbara is flirting with her more and more.
Barbara saw the roll of Phoebe's eyes, smiled and took off her glasses, and said, "Okay, I know Jessica is here, so I can't go too far, I just want to tease you." ”
"Hmm......" Phoebe nodded, and then she asked, "Didn't you say you were going to follow up on the new recruits? ”
"Oh......" Barbara said seriously, "you know about the new president's election, right? ”
Phoebe knew that Barbara was talking about the President of Germany, so she nodded.
"He fled from Prussia to West Berlin, you know. Barbara added.
Phoebe nodded again and said, "Didn't you just say it once?" and said that he ran to our territory to make trouble. ”
"Uh-huh. Barbara nodded and explained: "He went to the White Hell and said something that made many members of the neo-Nazi group sooth, and our employees are fine, but the recruitment of new people has become slow because of this, and this is the conclusion of the investigation." ”
Phoebe shook her head and said, "A humanoid stamp can't play that big role, there must be something else." ”
Barbara tilted her head and thought about it, shook her head and frowned: "For the time being, I haven't found anything else that affects the progress of the recruitment of newcomers, and I told you before that I sent a request for assistance to Langley's intelligence station in Berlin, and the result is that they also feel that if we didn't do it, then it would not be a good thing that those neo-Nazi organizations were shrinking, and I am afraid that other organizations are also recruiting." ”
"......" Phoebe nodded slowly, but did not speak.
Barbara smiled wryly, "You said something." ”
Phoebe spread her hands and said, "As you think, maybe there are hostile forces that we haven't found out about doing this, I think it's Russians, and that's what Langley means?"
Barbara nodded with a wry smile and said, "Well, the high oil prices have made their intelligence forces recover quickly, plus they beat Georgia half to death during the Olympics, and they do have plans to return to Europe again." ”
Phoebe nodded and said, "The Russians' plans are none of our business, but ...... The people who robbed us were a little bit bad......"
Barbara nodded.
Phoebe suddenly said: "By the way, how is the smallpox doing in the northern neighboring country? I remember the last time I looked at the satellite images, it seems that the infected people have exceeded 13,000, right?"
Barbara nodded and said: "Langley and the Pentagon are very happy, but they don't know how to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the northern neighbor, you know that this round of six-party peace talks is very cooperative, and the State Department is not willing to settle down at this time." ”
Phoebe shook her head and said, "No, I mean, how about we deploy the virus in Russia again? Aren't they rich now? And they also have their own samples of the smallpox virus strain, and Russia is not as difficult to enter as its northern neighbors, as long as there is an outbreak, I think the media will be happy to report it." ”
This time, Barbara rolled her eyes and said with a wry smile: "Phoebe, we just suspect that the Russians are making trouble, so we won't do it directly against them, right?"
Phoebe nodded and said, "Well, so, let's deploy the virus first, if it is confirmed that they are making trouble, then let the virus break out, if not, then keep it for later, it won't suffer anyway, right?"
Barbara smiled bitterly again: "The Russians are not like the people of the northern neighbors, although they are a little big and three, but don't forget that their head of state is from the KGB, and after taking advantage of the rise in oil prices to have money, the first thing he did was to expand the size of the intelligence agency, I am afraid that we will be found out when we go to Russia." ”
Phoebe showed a good-looking smile and said: "Don't worry, this plan does not need the Pentagon and Langley to participate, the whole process is done by our own people, so that some technology can also be used, and there is no need to worry about being discovered, unless the Russians use military satellites to scan every inch of their country all day." ”
Seeing Phoebe smile and say things that are not suitable for the son of man, Barbara's inner thought is: Such a leader is worthy of my life to follow......
(Yesterday I was told that I wrote less, but this time I wrote a little more, okay, I went to eat, and I starved to death...... )