328 Civilized crime
"I didn't expect this to happen." When he saw the search and rescue team, the first words that the search and rescue team said made Wu Xiaoqing feel surprised.
Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen glanced at each other and smiled bitterly, on the way to the two of them, they were still discussing whether the search and rescue team had already taken this layer into account when formulating this plan.
If this is the case, then the scheming of the search and rescue team when making the plan, or the depth of knowledge and understanding of a civilization, is also a little too terrifying - the point is that the search and rescue team has not revealed it to them from beginning to end, which means that they are not trusted at all.
Now the search and rescue team says he didn't expect it himself, which makes things even more dramatic.
"The main reason is that the federal government is not good," the search and rescue team directly gave the most direct explanation, "when the people launched the impeachment referendum, this administration is still paying attention to the progress of the war...... In the days leading up to the impeachment referendum, the government's main focus was on planning the next battle. A habitual mindset dominates the pattern of government behavior, and they apparently feel that as long as the war is won, everything can be solved. β
"At least on Earth, that's true." Shen Changwen said.
"The Federation is not Earth...... The political thinking of the people of the Federation is much more mature than that of the earthlings. You've all seen what your clones have brought back about the Federation game, which actually governs the country...... For the Federalists, it's no different from a game, or in other words, governing a country in a game is no different from a real thing. On Earth, the job of politician is only qualified to be experienced and participated in by a few elites, because the cost of politics is too high. But in a virtual community, almost everyone has the opportunity to experience it.
This is actually the same as military games.
I believe that on Earth, before strategy games, many people actually didn't understand military affairs, and even novels that are highly related to military content, such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, always seem naΓ―ve when writing about war. But in modern times, it is easy for an ordinary player to understand the importance of logistics in the military, about the concentration of troops, and about many other military elements.
For the Federalists, politics is a game, and the entire federal government is not so much the supreme authority of civilization as it is a live show of a certain game champion.
The federal government's greatest source of power is not political prestige or political achievements...... Since politics has become a kind of game, these achievements are just the final results of the game, as an ordinary player, do you feel admiration and admiration for the achievements of another player in the game? Do you think it's incredible for the other party to defeat a certain boss and get certain equipment?
Definitely not, because politics is a game that everyone can try to play in the virtual world, and it is played countless times, everyone may admire the level of a gamer playing the game, but the result of playing the game for him, there will be no emotion.
This federal government has blurred the difference between the two. β
These two metaphors of the search and rescue team are very apt, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen almost immediately understood the meaning, now on the earth, the live broadcast industry is also in full swing, and there are everything that is done live on it, from home cooking, to playing games, or live broadcasting their own work sites......
In the political realm, this tendency has become even greater, and politicians can no longer be considered news through live campaigning, and the president of a large country can openly govern the country through the Internet...... It is conceivable that it will not take much time for the behavior of politicians to become public in the future.
Historically, the struggle for power may have been underground, and it was difficult for ordinary people to really grasp the details, and they could only imagine the specific struggles through various conjectures.
But in modern times, because of the development of technology, the power struggle has inevitably begun to become open; Looking at the elections in many countries, in fact, it is very similar to a full-participation game live broadcast to some extent.
The technology has developed to the level of the Federation, in fact, all the decisions made by the government have been completely transparent, and the people of the earth may not be able to accurately understand the specific meaning of a president proposing a certain bill or nominating a certain judge, because they are unfamiliar with this game after all, but the citizens of the Federation have a clear understanding of all the actions of the federal government.
Ironically, in the Commonwealth, the government began to know less and less about the citizens under their rule; To a large extent, this phenomenon is caused by the fact that the people of the Federation as a whole do not pay attention to reality, but devote their attention to the virtual world.
From the many reports sent back from Wu Xiaoqing's copy, we can also see an analysis that conforms to this judgment - the Federalists do not take real politics too seriously, and for this reason, the power of the government in reality has begun to shrink day by day.
At the same time, the entire federation civilization is still faintly at risk of splitting, and many members of the civilization have begun to join some virtual countries and live a life in a pure virtual world.
But because of this war, all people living in the virtual world have to be forced to face up to the problems in reality.
Wisdom and body planet after planet after planet, everyone was forced by the war to prepare for war, and the government played up the cruelty and necessity of war in all virtual spaces through live broadcast of war...... Of course, this has a great effect on mobilizing for war, but invisibly, it has also made everyone more afraid of war.
There are people who are willing to join the army as warriors, and there are inevitably people who want to avoid being drafted by various means, and even some small "virtual countries" are already considering the act of surrendering their intellect in war...... It's just because the intellect can't connect with them that they haven't really done this kind of "ball rape" thing.
Then, countless Wu Xiaoqing appeared, they joined the army one after another, and the government's triumphant propaganda made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they also began to sympathize with those Wu Xiaoqing who participated in the war from the bottom of their hearts.
Probably in order to publicize their political achievements, the tradition of keeping a live broadcast when all combatants participated in the war is still preserved, and the appearance of those clones of Wu Xiaoqing when they died in the battle is also the same as before, which was specially made by the government as a theme for promoting the war, in the eyes of government personnel, this is of course their best "political achievement", by sacrificing some unrelated alien intelligence replicas, so that the entire federal civilization can survive.
The current Archons even likened their current government to a "superhero group" that recreated the federal government in a public speech.
But the consuls will not know that this is not how the public opinion of the Union sees him.
Why, in the case of the planet, is it that every time Trump publicly says that he has made America greater, he is always sneered at by a large crowd...... In a sense, he has indeed used the power of the presidency to do a lot of things and fulfill a lot of promises to voters.
By extension, politicians all over the world are now almost all facing the complaints of the people at the bottom, and almost no country has been spared, and it seems that every educated person on the planet feels that he is qualified to make a little say on political issues.
The reason is simple, because everyone has seen a lot.
The more the politicians live, the more political games are played, and the more professional the judgment of the players participating in the game will become......
This is true on Earth, let alone in a Federation that is far more developed than Earth. Earthlings may also be able to say that you can do what you do, but in the federal ...... Almost everyone can experience the addiction of being president in a virtual game.
And I have to admit that many people's performance in the game is definitely better than the performance of Lord Archon in reality...... To be excellent and much more ......
The consul's boasting was thus ironic to all β the consul thought that it was because of his political wisdom, but in the eyes of most of the Federalists, the government was able to succeed in large part because of ...... Morality breaks the lower bounds.
They have lost credibility in front of all other civilizations for the sake of this civilizational infighting.
If there really are other civilizations in the universe, if there is a second extraterrestrial civilization that comes to contact the Federation, how will they evaluate this civilization when they learn what the Federation people did to the search and rescue team before?
Thieves, liars?
I'm afraid it's much more than that.
The dirtiest and most disgusting intergalactic kidnapper, the most heinous civilization crime...... This is the counterinsurgency of this behavior on the network of the Federation, where most of the people are in rebellion.
No one thinks that the Archons have done something great, in some way to saving the Commonwealth, but the means have challenged the lower limits of ethics. In a way, all Federalists are complicit in the fact - and continue to watch the fruits of their crimes every day.
Whenever the government publicized the data on how many clones had died after the war was won, they meant to publicize how many precious lives they had saved for the Federation, but in the public opinion, it made everyone feel more and more guilty.
While the legitimacy of the government's actions began to be questioned, it was inevitable that everyone began to feel more and more guilty about those copies of Wu Xiaoqing.
Only they are the real heroes of this war.
With the evolution of the war, the two sides inevitably entered a decisive battle in Xiaoyangxing.
At this time, it is difficult for the two sides to count how many troops the other side controls, but one thing is certain, when the astronomical glasses of both sides observe each other's planets, without exception, they can see that a long "fleet zone" has been formed between the rear planets and the battlefield ahead.
The planet seems to have turned into a bubble-blowing child, constantly blowing more soap bubbles into space, and these soap bubbles, after a long voyage, come to the front line, and turn into piles of steel ruins under each other's fire.
The war had already entered the white heat, and after Wu Xiaoqing's clone went to the front line, the average survival time began to drop to less than three days.
The federal government has stepped up the publicity of live video broadcasts, and countless scenes of Wu Xiaoqing's death have become a nightmare for the federal people to watch every day.
On the other hand, everyone is starting to feel disgusted by it.
They are not disgusted with war, but with the civilization of the Federation that has become dirty in war.
Fighting for oneself with individuals of other civilizations, and being proud of it...... The federal government can do this kind of thing shamelessly, but all the federal people don't have the shame to bear it.
Every day's live broadcast, every sacrifice of Wu Xiaoqing, has become a mental torture for all the people of the Federation.
At the beginning, everyone was still following the federal government's report, paying attention to the details of the battle, paying attention to the node where the war was going, and paying attention to the battle loss ratio of the two sides...... But gradually, everyone began to fall silent.
Another voice began to emerge in public opinion - what if this kind of war is won? Who have we become?
Many people in the Federation began to feel a sense of shame, and for a time many even took the initiative to sign up, hoping to join the military to wash away this feeling - but at this time, the federal government no longer approved the application of any federal citizen to enlist.
The reason is simple, because these Federalists don't have replicas that work well at all.
All clones only need to be in a virtual environment to receive efficient military training, and the discipline and obedience within the team are far better than those of the Federation...... More critically, the death of the clones is not at the slightest cost, but the Federation people ...... The social shock caused by pensions and deaths alone is a social cost that the Union cannot afford.
What's more, as the war progressed, more and more federal citizens found that even if tens of billions of Wu Xiaoqing joined, they might not be able to win.
The wisdom body still has a big move!
The next development of things, in Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, is an unbelievable fantasy story.