The number of people who have retired is large, and the number of people who have been added in is small, but the total amount of work has hardly changed. The process of population reduction is itself so painful.

Zhou Hua glanced at the TV and said, "Change the channel, the radicals and the conservatives are quarreling again." ”

"How so? What's the new plan for the radicals?" Wang Haifeng ate two peanuts and asked.

Times are changing, and so is human society.

In the conventional sense, conservatives are the forces that have been extended from the original power of the new human government.

They firmly believe that humanity needs to accomplish this big goal. The predecessors have already put in 800 years of hard work, and there are still 600 years to complete, how can they give up halfway?

This force has been firmly pushing the target forward, including the transcendents returning from the virtual world, who are basically part of the conservative faction, even if this push is breeding public resentment and slowly draining the credibility of the entire government...... As long as this plan is completed, all contradictions can be resolved.

The radicals are the latest political force to emerge, dissatisfied with the current state of human civilization and trying to initiate a series of internal reforms, starting with improving the happiness of the people.

At present, in order to accomplish this great goal, the vast majority of the productive forces of the entire civilization have been spent, the quality of life has declined, and the people are full of complaints. Even some people have begun to choose to shorten their lifespan, retire early, and enter the virtual space, which is definitely not a normal behavior!

Of course, the radicals also believe that the big goal must be accomplished, and if it is not completed, it will be sorry for the ancestors, and it will also be at odds with the Thoth civilization. But how to do it well and quickly is another question.

“…… It is immoral and inhumane to kidnap a person's entire life on the wheels of civilization! ”

Zhou Hua imitated the empty political slogans of the radical leader and laughed at the same time.

"Human beings need freedom, the right to be able to freely choose their own work......"

"After graduating, students shouldn't be precision screws!" ”

"The current brainwashing education method needs to be vigorously reformed."

People who are a little older know that this kind of slogan is difficult to achieve, and it is very simple to shout a slogan. It's wonderful, but how do you really make it happen?

Wang Haifeng said: "You are wrong, more people will not think about whether this series of slogans is naïve and whether they can be completed, they will only care about the position of these slogans and whether they can meet their innermost wishes." ”

Human beings are creatures that actually have a strong tendency, that is, they have their own positions.

If a thing is on its side, even if it is wrong, people will choose to support it.

On the contrary, if the position of a certain thing is not on one's side, even if it conforms to objective facts, people will spit on it.

The ass is crooked, and everything looks crooked.

The citizens of the new human civilization, although well educated, have not fundamentally changed in human nature. At present, public discontent is gradually accumulating, and the people's stance is slowly changing.

What does it mean that politics is about wearing hats and management? That is, you have to put a high hat on the people and gain a psychological sense of superiority.

The new human civilization has witnessed many stories in history, the decline of the earth's civilization, and various low-level civilizations that cannot develop.

Compared with this type of civilization, people have a sense of moral superiority in their hearts.

In order to maintain this sense of superiority, we do not mind sacrificing some of our own interests in pursuit of "civilizational progress", that is, the goal pursued by the new civilization school.

But what about now? Working here day and night, day and night, the mainstream of thought is slowly changing, and the top hat is about to fall off.

Life is not as good as it used to be, at least not as good as it used to be, not as expected...... Then people need to vent.

The easiest way to vent your emotions is to scold the government for inaction, and maybe everything will be better with another government......

This has not changed for tens of thousands of years. People feel that as long as they come to power, they can definitely be better than they are now.

"Doesn't that sound ridiculous? We're all in the interstellar age, and it's the same. ”

Wang Haifeng sighed, "I've been reading history books lately and found something very interesting. In the 21st century, there is a small country with frequent regime changes, and people often take to the streets. Do you know why they took to the streets? ”

Zhou Hua said: "The economy is not good. ”

"Wrong, they want more social welfare!"

Zhou Hua wondered: "Isn't social welfare an economic problem?" ”

Wang Haifeng said with a smile: "No, no, no, economic issues, they don't think about it...... They just want more social benefits. Whoever gives them social benefits, they elect whomever they want. ”

"And then?"

"Of course, it's a change of government. The old government was ousted because the new government promised to increase social welfare. ”

"After a change of government, I found that I had no money at all, and I couldn't do it unless I borrowed money from foreign countries to pay benefits. The promise was not fulfilled, so the people rioted and continued to change governments. ”

The current government is also facing the same problem, in fact, a series of living resources such as clothing, food, housing and transportation are very abundant, but people are still not satisfied.

People want more time off, and this desire cannot be said to be unreasonable, but at this point in time......

In the same way, the series of slogans put forward by the radicals does have a certain degree of inflammation, and there are a lot of young people who respond to it, who don't care much about the process of how to achieve it, they only care about the better outcome.

Even if the result is likely to be illusory, something that can't be done at all, they will still believe it.

"With the passing of the elderly in the past, the aging population is serious, and people's work pressure is increasing. The political power of the radical factions has also begun to rise gradually, and it is no longer the same as it used to be, and a few decades ago, it was just a drizzle. ”

"Social change is really complicated." Wang Haifeng shook his head and ate another peanut, "However, many historians of new civilizations have foreseen this problem hundreds of years ago, and it is too powerful. ”

"But they didn't come up with a solution, and maybe there is no solution in itself, and it can only be solved by enduring."

Or ...... Actually, there are some solutions, but these solutions are not easy to use, and they will cause more trouble? ”

He didn't have much interest in radicals, conservatives, but he also knew that there could be no internal chaos at a time like this.

There is a premise: the whole big project plan cannot be abandoned.

Don't look at the noisy TV shows, the vast majority of citizens are silent, relying on social inertia, and will still continue to carry out the work at hand.

The power of the radicals is far from enough to overthrow the rule of the conservatives, and even they themselves do not dare to abandon this plan, so they can only play some marginal balls.

Every year, the new humans hold talks with the Thoth civilization to announce the construction of their civilization's planetary engines and monitor each other. How much work everyone has done, and how much propulsive power each engine provides, you can know it at a glance with the side of the professional instrument. Both sides must be honest with each other.

However, after a hundred or two hundred years of "honeymoon period", friction gradually increased, because there will always be some mistakes in the construction of planetary engines.

If something goes wrong, we will condemn each other and create contradictions.

Fifty-three years ago, one of the planetary engines on the New Human side malfunctioned and went out for 33 days, causing the planet to deviate by 0.03 milliseconds!

So the human side was frantically criticized and condemned by the Tothians at the year-end meeting, as if the whole plan was about to fail.

Of course, the Tothians have also made such mistakes and have been criticized by the human side.

All in all, every mistake made by both sides makes the margin for error a little lower. This is just the contradiction caused by the flameout, if the two planets collide because of the delay in the construction period, the whole plan fails, and the two sides have to go to war directly!

"So, the radicals also know that they are two pounds, and if they really fight, they can't afford to die. This plan must be continued. ”

Zhou Hua also picked up a wine glass and took a small sip: "Their method is too idealistic. But it sounds like people's lives are really better than they are now. ”

"In the current situation where technology cannot be greatly improved, the best way is to expand the population and reduce the aging population. As long as the population expands and more can be done, productivity naturally increases. ”

"When productivity increases, working hours can be tightly controlled, and people's well-being can be improved."

"Population expansion?" Wang Haifeng sneered: "When the time comes, the spaceship of the interstellar trading market will not be able to hold so many people, who will stay here and die with the neutron star?" Or put people in a virtual space and pack them away? ”

"Yes, they just want to put people in the virtual space and take them away, and abandon the physical body, but the old government disagrees, resolutely disagrees, and basically opposes it."

"Why don't you agree?"

"They say that the laws related to virtual world technology are the key constitution of mankind, and they must not be touched unless they have to."

"Radicals feel that this kind of rules and regulations are too rigid, even if it is a constitution, it is appointed by people, and it can be amended, but now is the critical moment, what if it is amended?"

The two also had a disagreement at this time, Wang Haifeng felt that the constitution could not be changed at will, but Zhou Hua felt that it was feasible.

One person can be rational, ten people's disagreements can only be barely sensible, a thousand people, even wise can not be done, everyone has their own thoughts, can only be constrained by universal values.

What about a civilization? There are too many people, and no one can convince anyone, so they will feel that some inexplicable methods have become good ones.

"Drop!" Suddenly, a shrill scream rang out from the liaison.

The two people who were arguing about it looked down one after another, it was not a big deal, it was a machine failure, and the intelligent robot could not handle it, and it needed to be handled manually.

"I'll go, I won't quarrel with you."

"Drink some wine, can you do it?" Zhou Hua said with a smile.

"Of course you can!" Wang Haifeng waved his hand, put on the power armor again, and disappeared into the dark earth.

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