Chapter 37: Foolishness and Wisdom (4,000 words)
"Transforming ......" Jiang Yan muttered, like a pig in the south who had seen snow for the first time.
"You know you're a low-level civilization, right?" Lin Mengdie teased, "It's still the lowest one, but it's okay, it's past the threshold of primary civilization." ”
"Elementary civilization?" Jiang Yan was curious, "What kind of civilization is that?" ”
"It's a civilization that can only live on its own continent," Lin explained, "and can't even conquer the sea." ”
"That's right." Jiang Yan understood, it turned out that the ancients were all primary civilizations.
He no longer tried to shock Lin Mengdie with his mobile phone, he knew that a casual sentence from someone's mouth would be enough for the top scientists on the planet to be busy for many years.
"And, let me tell you," Lin Mengdie didn't want to let him go, when he finished navigating and retreated to the main interface, she looked at the phone screen, "Something like this that can receive a lot of information must have an entertainment function, right?" ”
"Like these pushes you receive," she saw a whole page of pushes on Jiang Yan's phone, "they're all trying to divert your attention and direct it to areas that have nothing to do with you, most of which are entertainment, and then make a profit from it, right?" ”
"Uh......" Jiang Yan felt very embarrassed, he found that Lin Mengdie's vision was completely beyond his expectations, and when she commented on these things, just like today's people commented on the ancients, "It seems that maybe that's it." ”
"Something like this," Lin Mengdie said, with a look of disgust, "It's basically an obstacle to the progress of civilization, and many low-level civilizations have been ruined by these things." ”
This sentence shocked Jiang Yan more than conquering the sun.
"This ......" He said incredulously, "What does the push of entertainment software have to do with the progress of civilization?" ”
"What's the matter?" Lin Mengdie said with a smile, "If I'm not mistaken, these things are all commercial operations and exist for profit, right?" ”
This is, of course, an unquestionable logic, if it wasn't for making money, how could those software exist? Jiang Yan had to nod in acknowledgement.
"For the money," Lin Mengdie sneered, "they will try their best to divert your attention, collect your preferences, and then push you content that is obviously worthless, but will definitely attract your attention and make you consume your time." ”
"What does this have to do with the hindrance to the development of civilization?" Jiang Yan was puzzled, isn't this normal? Others have a good way to make money, and they don't break the law!
"You don't think it makes a difference?" Lin Mengdie sneered and said, "That's because you don't understand what is needed for the development of civilization." ”
"What is needed?"
Jiang Yan said in a trembling voice, he felt that he was approaching a shocking secret, closer than anyone on this planet, because the person he was talking to was from the distant other side of the starry sky.
"Innovation is needed," Lin explained, "and innovation drives the development of civilization." ”
"Isn't this an innovation?" Jiang Yan held up his mobile phone, "A hundred years ago, people couldn't use these things. ”
"This is indeed some kind of innovation, but it is not a real innovation," Lin Mengdie said coldly, "It's just using the existing technical foundation to make things that appeal to people's appetite and make people more stupid and lazy." ”
"You ......" Jiang Yan felt that she was a little extreme, and many things obviously facilitated people's lives.
"Real innovation," Lin explained, "is the innovation of materials, the innovation of the application of laws, and that is something that can completely change the status quo of an entire planet." ”
Completely changing the status quo of an entire planet, this sentence moved Jiang Yan, and he immediately thought of the industrial revolution.
Due to the development of science and the Industrial Revolution, the productivity of human beings has been greatly improved, and human beings have entered the modern society from ancient society, and the whole planet is different.
If we combine Lin Mengdie's definition of "primary civilization", then it is indeed the cause of the industrial revolution, human beings can make steel float on the water, and then the world becomes a whole.
"In other words," he probably understood, "to develop and use better materials, to understand and apply more laws, and then to conquer giant planets, and even stars, is this the upgrading of civilization?" ”
Lin Mengdie nodded.
"It's too hard......" Jiang Yan muttered that for the current earth, conquering giant planets and even stars is tantamount to a fantasy.
"Besides, what does this have to do with entertainment?"
"The relationship is big," Lin Mengdie was a little impatient, "Innovation promotes the development of civilization, and what does innovation need?" Need to think, think about what it takes? Focus! ”
"These entertaining things, because of the need for profit," Lin Mengdie's face showed that disgusted expression again, "He will try his best to steal your attention and immerse you in it, turning into a stupid pig, a fool, a waste who has no ego and doesn't know how to think." ”
"That's too much......" Jiang Yan felt that the sweat was coming out, and Lin Mengdie's poisonous tongue made him a little unbearable, "But it does make sense." ”
He's also thinking about how people are spending more and more time on screens since smartphones became ubiquitous.
"Too heavy?" Lin Mengdie sneered, "This is not what I said, it was Mozi who said it." ”
"Mozi?" Jiang Yan is stupid, isn't that also an ancient? How did he end up in the Humane Universe?
He wanted to ask for an explanation, but Lin Mengdie didn't give him a chance, she continued: "When most people's attention is taken away by these entertainment information, and they become stupid pigs and waste, thinkers become outliers, ignorance will stifle wisdom, and civilization will never be able to advance." ”
"That's an exaggeration!" Jiang Yan really couldn't stand it, this alien was a stupid pig in one mouth, and one waste in a mouthful, "If you like to think, you can think, and if you don't like to think, you can be a pig with peace of mind, and everyone will not invade each other." ”
"Non-aggression?" Lin Mengdie smiled, "You live in the same world and share the same resources, how can you not invade each other?" ”
"What do you mean?"
"That's what it means!" Lin Mengdie almost had to hold her forehead, she was really a stupid pig, she thought, "The space for thought is only so big!" If you are stupid, you will not be able to survive with wisdom! ”
"Let's put it this way," seeing Jiang Yan's confused appearance, she patiently explained, "If you are a scientist, you do your own thing every day, you like to think, and you rarely pay attention to those stupid things. ”
"And everyone else, they all like those stupid things, they get together every day to party, through which they produce their own values and codes of conduct," Lin Mengdie organized the language, striving to be able to understand Jiang Yan, "In the long run, you will find that the world is different from what you understand!" You can't fit into the world anymore! Then you'll be lonely, and then you'll be miserable! If you try to get out of this pain, you have to put down the work of wisdom at hand and go into that stupid environment. ”
These words made Jiang Yan fall into deep thought, and he thought of a lot.
He thought of the Lighthouse Country.
When the plague that swept the world hit, why did the lighthouse country, known as the light of mankind, deal with it so badly?
People are dying every day, the headlines around the world are plague, why are so many people still not wearing masks? Why do they rally?
Even the Great Commander under God, above billions of people, is making remarks about drinking disinfectant.
He thought of the epidemic prevention expert named Fauci, when he spoke out for the health of his own people, there were so many people who threatened him with death!
Why? Lin Mengdie's words allowed him to find the answer, because stupidity chokes the neck of wisdom, and anti-wisdom tramples on the dignity of common sense.
When he thought of this, he suddenly felt very fortunate that in a large country in East Asia, when the epidemic hit, almost everyone stayed at home for fear of being infected by the plague.
Why? Because we know it's really harmful, we have to overcome it instead of closing our eyes, covering our ears, and telling ourselves that nothing happened.
He roughly accepted Lin Mengdie's opinion, but he still couldn't help but refute it.
"Even if all people are fanatical about stupidity," he said, "and I don't join them, I think of myself, everyone is drunk and I am sober, and the whole world is turbid and I am alone." ”
Even in the lighthouse country, aren't there people who wear masks and shout about the danger of the epidemic?
However, Lin Mengdie's next words made his back sweat dripble.
"Yes, you can," Lin Mengdie said with a smile, first agreeing with his opinion, which made Jiang Yan very proud, and then she continued, "You are an adult, your worldview is unbreakable, and I have seen it." ”
These words made Jiang Yan a little ashamed, thinking of his Truman's world remarks, his worldview was indeed unbreakable.
"So, if someone like you is determined to think independently," Lin Mengdie continued, "then even if you feel lonely and miserable, you will not let go of your work and join the stupid carnival." ”
Jiang Yan nodded, yes, even in the ignorant Middle Ages, weren't there people who were willing to be burned to death in order to adhere to the truth?
"But," Lin Mengdie put away her smile, "those children?" ”
"What child?" Jiang Yan was stunned.
"Children who haven't grown up yet," Lin Mengdie stared at him and said, "their thinking is simple, it's easy to believe, it's easy to be guided." ”
Jiang Yan's back began to sweat, he swallowed his saliva and didn't say anything.
"When this iron plate in your hand spreads," she took Jiang Yan's phone and began to read the push on it, "Children will soon have it, and when they are very young, they will be exposed to those stupid things that are entertaining." ”
"They will be led ......" Jiang Yan spoke, and he felt a chill in his heart, "Where to lead?" ”
"Lead here," Lin Mengdie reads on her phone, "consumerism, money worship, historical nihilism, refined egoism." ”
She casually browsed a few feeds and commented with a smile.
"Humanity is never short of stupid ideas," she continued, "and any child, at any age, can be dragged down by these stupid ideas." ”
"When they grow up in the darkness of stupidity, can they still embrace the fire of wisdom?" Lin Mengdie said.
She was so right, Jiang Yan roared in her heart, in fact, what is more than a child? Many adults can't escape the influence of these stupid ideas!
He immediately thought of Li Xiaoran, is she born so much for money? Born with a penchant for deception and climbing?
No! Maybe she's just a victim, a victim of the times.
"Of course," Lin Mengdie raised her phone again and dangled it in front of him, "For children, the so-called concept is a little too complicated, and the people who can affect them the most are some packaged people." ”
This sentence hit Jiang Yan again!
She was so right! Over the years, children's pursuit and love for packaging people has gradually reached a certain level that is incomprehensible!
They spend for the packers, even if they don't have much money at home.
They are obsessed with packaging people, even if their grades plummet.
What can this kind of fanatical pursuit bring to them? What can it bring to society? What can it bring to the times?
Nothing!
Only the youth that was wasted, the studies that were wasted, and the amusement of the original self after many years.
"In that case," Jiang Yan said, "if I had a child, I wouldn't give her this piece of iron." ”
It must not be given.
"Just don't give it?" Lin Mengdie returned the phone to him, and she smiled again, "If you don't give it, can you guarantee that others won't give it either?" As long as one person gives, the poison of the packer spreads to the children. ”
"I can educate her," Jiang Yan felt powerless, but he was still struggling, "so that she doesn't have to like that." ”
"Then her study life will probably not be very happy," Lin Mengdie put away her smile, "Children like to be in groups, if everyone else likes it, and she doesn't like it, then she will become different, and the taste is not good." ”
Alternative! These words were like a sword, stabbing Jiang Yan fiercely.
He knows the pain of the alternative, and he certainly doesn't want his children to be the other.
"Besides, have you thought about it," Lin Mengdie's voice was cold, she didn't care what would happen in this civilization, "When these children grow up, some of them will become teachers!" What do you think will happen then? That is the terrible future of civilization! ”
Rumble!
This sentence sounded in Jiang Yan's ears like a thunderbolt!
Teacher! He immediately thought that last year was not this year, and there were teachers who guided students to chase stars!
What a terrible future! And it's already happening!
Teachers who are supposed to pass on the flame of knowledge are now embracing stupidity!
Although this is just one example, you can imagine how dim the flame of wisdom has been!
"How can this be ......" Jiang Yan muttered to himself, he felt that all this was too terrible, these stupid things that were entertaining were indeed an obstacle to the progress of human civilization.
"Benefits!" Lin Mengdie said coldly, "It's all about money!" ”
Jiang Yan thought about it for a while, and he found that it was indeed true, if you went to the upper reaches of the ugly river, you would find that it was for money.
"How did you solve it?" Jiang Yan asked, his tone urgent.
Lin Mengdie is from an alien planet, she knows everything so clearly, there should be a solution.