Chapter 573: The Derailed Train of Civilization
In the first two campaigns, the two sides were relatively harmonious, because their shelters had not yet been built. At this time, excessive competition will only lead to rejection by the population.
But this time it's different, people build additional shelters, it doesn't affect their own survival, and there is not much benefit, the most important thing is to obtain psychological satisfaction.
The people are psychologically ashamed of the base camp in the rear, so they are willing to do something that they think they can make up for.
And the "Association for the Promotion of Democracy" has grasped the psychological contradiction in this regard. These politicians believe that as long as there is such a plan on paper, it is good, even if it is just shouting with their mouths, that they are more capable than the other party.
It doesn't matter if it will be postponed or not, because there is still a long way to go!
The six-hour work day of the Association for the Promotion of Democracy is also carefully calculated.
Since the main shelter has been completed in the past ten years, and there is no longer the so-called existential oppression, the next work is to have fun learning, happy research, and then building a data receiving instrument for the neutron star collision and so on......
It's not urgent, it's still a long time, six hours a day is enough! It doesn't affect anything!
On the other hand, and even more importantly, the Industrial Coalition has been in power for ten years. The right to speak is very important, and the competition between the two sides has always existed, and the "Association for the Promotion of Democracy" has fewer and fewer seats in parliament.
Long-standing opposition parties will inevitably be marginalized if they are no longer able to govern. At that time, the so-called multi-party system will become a one-party system, which they do not want to see.
"The issuance of this plan quickly caused a big wave among the people!"
"Some people are for it, some people are against it."
Lin Yingdong, an education expert, raised a lot of objections.
He believes that the original eight-hour workday is in line with human nature. Drastically reducing working hours can have an impact on the social climate.
Since ancient times, human beings have been working from sunrise to daily income, so why do human beings in this era only need to work 6 hours?
Those countries that used to have a six-hour workday are actually very loose, far less than those with an eight-hour workday.
Moreover, work is a process of realizing one's social value, and a person who does not work must be a waste, even if the six-hour work system seems to be more free than the eight-hour work system. Using some elite data, it is not objective and unreliable, you must know that many people are not elites
All in all, there are many people who oppose it.
However, this kind of debate does not have much effect, and the people are honest in their mouths and honest in their bodies.
After the vigorous election, the promotion of democracy came to power, the ruling party was replaced, and the relevant plan was adopted.
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And just like that, five years passed again very quickly......
The "Association for the Promotion of Democracy" had no choice but to fulfill its promise and toiled to build more luxurious additional shelters.
But they realized that 5 years was too short for an interstellar civilization to do anything, and it had already passed.
This extra, large, luxurious shelter, which needed to accommodate 40 million people, was not even a third of it...... It's not because they're slacking off, it's that there is simply not enough time, and the six-hour work system has been promulgated, and there are only five years, how can it be.
Therefore, the "Association for the Promotion of Democracy" wants to amend this constitution and extend the number of years of political parties in power, no matter how much it conforms to the regular project deadline of interstellar civilization.
This is actually a very normal thing.
As a result, this plan was again fiercely attacked by the opposition parties!
"Why did you want to change the constitution when you were in power? Why wasn't it when I was in office that I amended the Constitution? ”
"All the benefits are for you, and the shelter is not repaired...... It's because you're incompetent! ”
It is true that the Association for the Promotion of Democracy has not fulfilled its promises, has not built additional shelters, and people have not spoken to their compatriots 1 light-year away......
Naturally, the population was not very satisfied.
Actually, the "Association for the Promotion of Democracy" should not bear this blame, but the majority of the people do not think so, since you have not fulfilled your promises during your term of office, you should step down.
The vigorous partisan competition has begun again, and every election will cause a miasma in the whole society, you criticize me, I will judge you. Both sides must find ways to discredit each other as much as possible and then curry favor with the public in order to gain votes.
Control of the media has become an important part.
The media began to become less objective and tendentious.
In the wave of information on the Internet, they will choose to pick and choose the information they agree with, ignore the information they don't agree with, and then complete the whole process of self-brainwashing.
"In this way, the light green slowly turns into dark green, and the few light blues start to convert to dark blue."
At the time of the election, the Industrial United Party followed suit and threw out a plan of "early retirement age", which caused a huge social impact!
Don't say anything, retire early!
In this era, without developing large-scale engineering projects, only a very small amount of labor is needed to raise people comfortably.
So...... What about early retirement?
More than 60% of the population are middle-aged and elderly, and they have struggled for half their lives for the planetary engine construction plan, and they are certainly happy to hear about this plan.
Early retirement, of course, is a good thing!
Thus, under so many factors, the industrial union party returned to power......
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Party strife!
This very old term is not common in the new human civilization, but it is too common in the earth civilization...... It is common for human beings to know its harm, but they are helpless about it.
Power is a poison that corrupts people's hearts. Now it has made a comeback, and in the name of "freedom", it has choked the throat of a branch of humanity.
The whole story is not complicated, but it is quite dramatic, as if it is a silent and hilarious pantomime, sad to outsiders, but unaware and enjoyable to insiders.
The young rulers, enjoying the thrill of power, were reluctant to step down on their own, and began to try to curry favor with the people and gain more votes.
But they didn't know the enormous risks associated with the derailment of the civilization train.
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By this time, many smart scholars had already felt that something was wrong with the whole state of affairs. In the endless party struggle in the future, the bottom line of mankind will be lower and lower! All kinds of messy media are constantly smearing each other, ripping out all the privacy of the other party's leaders and turning them into tools for public entertainment! ”
"And people have a position, and in the endless media brainwashing, there will always be strong tendencies."
"In this world, there are no enemies, no competition, no pressure to survive, in this infinitely beautiful environment, how can we avoid our own destruction? It is necessary to have a strong government to guide the spiritual construction of the entire civilization! But now no, not at all! ”
"The so-called democracy is inevitably influenced by public opinion, so the more accommodating the party is to the will of the people, the higher the probability of becoming the ruling party. They are led by public opinion, where will there be so-called spiritual construction? ”
Mr. Lin Yingdong, who has returned to the new human civilization, described the past on the stage of the scientific council, and suddenly found all this absurd and ridiculous.
The whole thing sounds bizarre and ridiculous, but it happened.
He gritted his teeth and said, "But how can a train stop with the strength of a few people after it starts?" ”
Along with Lin Yingdong, there are more than 60,000 ordinary people, who have already been arranged to live in their own places, and they don't have much problem integrating into the new human civilization of nearly 50 million. And people are happy to accept these surviving refugees, who should cherish their lives more after this catastrophe.