Temple of Stone.

Since ancient times, humans have always claimed to be the masters of nature......

But in a sense, human beings have always imitated other creatures in nature in various fields......

For example, the five-bird drama about the way of health preservation......

Another example is like Xingyi Quan in martial arts......

Another example is the breaststroke in swimming......

And so on and so forth......

Humans seem to have been trying to get inspiration from other creatures, and have been trying to imitate the virtues of other creatures......

However, few people have thought that in the case of all things, every creature has its own specialty, so what are the specialties of human beings?

Leopards run fast, cats can climb trees, camels have amazing endurance, and elephants have infinite strength......

And what about people?

Some people may say that the specialty of human beings is to have wisdom and thinking, the specialty of human beings is to be able to create tools and use tools, and the specialty of human beings is to grasp the abilities that they originally did not have in their hands through imitation through copycats......

In a sense, such a concept is actually quite marketable......

However, from another point of view, this concept itself is actually untenable......

Because this so-called power, in essence, is completely unequal to those instinctive talents of animals......

Because wisdom and thinking are things that will naturally arise from any kind of life after it has evolved to a certain extent, and in a sense, this is not a unique ability of human beings!

Just like the so-called goblins that often appear in classical novels, in fact, in the final analysis, they are just creatures that have opened their wisdom, and the old tree has opened their wisdom and has become a tree spirit, and the tiger has turned into a tiger demon when they have opened their wisdom......

No matter what kind of animal or plant it is, as long as it exists within the scope of biology, theoretically speaking, it has the possibility of generating intelligence......

However, no matter what kind of creature it is, it always has its own special natural abilities......

From this point of view, if human talent is only its own wisdom, I am afraid that it is unjustifiable......

Since all creatures in this world have their own talents, then human beings should naturally have their own talents......

As for wisdom itself, in the final analysis, it is only a difference in the degree of evolution, not a difference in the level of talent......

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From ancient times to the present, there have been countless capable people with lofty ideals, always trying to achieve the goal of immortality through the analysis of nature and other living beings......

Especially the emperors of the past and present have an almost paranoid pursuit of immortality......

However, few people really consider starting from themselves to explore the so-called path of immortality!

The power of wisdom naturally plays a vital role in the development of human civilization, but it is precisely because of the wisdom of human beings that human instincts are suppressed to the greatest extent and there is no room for release at all......

The power of wisdom can help humans make all kinds of tools, but it also makes humans more dependent on external objects......

And the result of relying too much on external objects often leads to a fundamental change in people's thinking patterns!

In fact, it doesn't matter who they are, when they want to do something......

Always prioritize using the ones that are easier for you!

And once people have formed such thinking inertia, it is often difficult to change it......

Just like for gangsters, if they encounter something, the first thing they think of is robbery, intimidation and violence, because this is also their most accustomed way of life......

And if it is a local tyrant, they will always try to settle everything with money, because that is what they are good at......

Senior officials, on the other hand, are more inclined to use their rights......

No matter what kind of person you are, when you encounter a problem, you will always try to solve it in the best and most convenient way......

It's like for otaku, Baidu or Google first is always the first choice when it comes to things......

And the same is true for humanity as a whole......

No matter what happens, people will always tend to use the easiest and most convenient way to do it......

For example, murder......

In the era of cold weapons, if you talk about killing, then the most reminiscent of it is nothing more than those black-clothed assassins, wrapped in black, holding deadly daggers, with their own brilliant martial arts and extraordinary courage, one blow misses thousands of miles away......

is like the so-called Jing Ke assassinating King Qin, which is a typical example......

In that era, when it comes to assassination, the easiest thing to associate with is, in the final analysis, this kind of face-to-face simplest and most direct killing!

However, if we want to talk about killing people in the modern world......

Then the first thing that will come into people's minds is mostly sniper rifles......

Compared with the dagger or short knife this kind of cold weapon, the sniper rifle is not only more powerful, but also has a huge advantage in the natural range as a firearm, since the firearm was developed, hot weapons have become the mainstream of killing, if you want to kill a person, then the vast majority of people's heads flashed the idea will definitely be a cold weapon such as a sword and dagger, and it will definitely be a gun This kind of murder weapon that anyone can kill as long as they hold it in their hands!

In addition to firearms, it is gunpowder and poison, basically, in modern society, when people think of killing, most of the thoughts that come to their minds will be related to these three, because these three are relatively the least risky choices for killing......

Of course, sniper rifles are firearms after all, and they are relatively easy to expose, but such as poison or bombs, they are difficult to trace, as long as they can grasp the finished product in hand, even if they are a person who has nothing, they may kill those who are much stronger than themselves by calculation......

In modern society, the order between people is actually very strict......

And this has caused the tragedy of class contradictions, and such a tragedy, for the weaker side, it is almost impossible to use legal means to seek justice, and only by using means such as guns, gunpowder or poison can there be a chance to achieve a counterattack on the superior......

In fact, this is also a typical change in thinking mode......

In the era of cold weapons before the invention of gunpowder, people's perception of killing was more based on the level of their own force, and if they wanted to become strong, they must practice martial arts, otherwise they were destined to have no way out......

Just like in the Three Kingdoms period, many famous strategists actually had good military force, and the fundamental reason is that it is difficult for people who simply have strategy but do not have force to survive in the chaos of rocks......

In an era when the medical system is not perfect, in an era when the social system is not perfect......

If you want to make your life better and want to protect yourself from diseases, the easiest and most direct way is to strengthen your body!

As long as your body is strong, then you will naturally be protected from all diseases, and you will naturally have the ability to control the fate of others!

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This is actually a typical difference in thinking mode......

In the final analysis, in fact, the development of science and technology largely determines the mode of thinking of human beings......

When science and technology are not developed, when the order is not perfect......

People are always more inclined to make themselves strong in order to achieve their goals......

And when science and technology are developed, after the order gradually becomes sound, the situation is completely different......

At such times, people are often more inclined to use the power of technology to achieve their own demands......

To give you a simple example......

For the ancient people, if they wanted to fly like birds, they would practice jumping hard, exercise their leg muscles hard, and practice all the light body techniques that could reduce their gravity......

For modern people, if they want to fly like birds, then they will tend to buy a plane ticket......

Although the former may seem ridiculous or even ridiculous to modern people, for ancient people, it is really the only possibility they imagined that people could fly!

When technology is not developed, when people encounter difficulties, they will seek to solve difficulties by improving themselves......

In the era of advanced science and technology, when people encounter difficulties, they will choose to use external forces to deal with trouble......

Strictly speaking, this is certainly not a matter of human choice, but simply because of the relationship between people in different times and backgrounds......

The fundamental reason for the gradual decline of martial arts is, in the final analysis, nothing more than the prosperity of science and technology......

Even those martial arts-level powerhouses hidden among ordinary people have long been beyond the scope of mortals, but even so, the power of science and technology can still easily suppress the martial artists!

No matter how powerful a martial artist in the martial arts realm is, at best, he only has the power to collapse the building with one punch, and this kind of power, although for ordinary people, is already an incredible superman, but for modern technology, it is nothing......

Some people may say that although in modern science and technology, a powerful rocket is enough to be compared with a martial artist in the martial arts realm, but after all, scientific and technological weapons are always consumed, and the consumption of ordinary firearms is not large, but once the destructive weapon is used, it is a real cannon in the golden sense......

But in reality, even so......

The price of using high-tech powerful weapons is always much lower than that of martial arts-level powerhouses!

Admittedly, the use of high-tech weapons consumes a lot of resources......

However, the resources required to cultivate a martial arts level powerhouse may be dozens or even hundreds of times the cost of manufacturing high-tech weapons!

Since ancient times, the truth of being poor and rich has always been true!

This is true even in modern society......

Cultivating a warrior itself requires a lot of resources......

This is also the reason why the army never trains warriors on a large scale!

Purely from the perspective of growth potential, martial artists are actually better than special forces in the ordinary sense, the strength of special forces is a kind of quick strength, a kind of strength obtained by sacrificing the body's further growth potential, and the grappling fighting skills they use are more inclined to be used simply, rather than pursuing the improvement of martial arts......

And the martial artist is different, the martial artist learning martial arts, in fact, is also a process of learning the Tao, perhaps at the beginning of learning martial arts, they may not be able to compare with the fast special forces in the army, but once the martial arts enter the door, the martial artist will have an absolute advantage in the face of special forces in hand-to-hand combat, and once the martial artist can reach the level of martial arts, then even if the special forces have firearms, it is difficult to pose a substantial threat to them......

No matter from what point of view, training warriors will have more combat value and growth potential than training special forces......

But the reason why the army still favors special forces over martial artists is simple......

Because the cultivation of a warrior is very expensive!

(To be continued.) )