Chapter Thirty-Eight: Love Is More Valuable?
Do human beings have empathy for beauty? That is, can people have a common aesthetic? Can a beautiful woman look good in anyone's eyes? It is said that beauty not only depends on whether the lady looks good or not, whether it can be pleasing to the eye, but also depends on who is looking at you, and beauty has different ways of embodiment in the eyes of different people - but if most people say that a beautiful thing is beautiful, and only a few people run out to call it not beautiful, this is not a question of whether it is beautiful or not, it is a question of arrogance or not. For example, there was a man named Zhao Mengfu in ancient China, and everyone said that his calligraphy was very beautiful, and then a Dong Qichang came out and said that his words were "vulgar...... This is purely a personal attack, is it not good for you to directly scold others, do you have to scold his words, and appear to be at a high level? This is the angle problem, Dong Qichang belongs to the person who loves himself more than he loves simple beauty, and he can't look down on Zhao Mengfu's people, so he can't look down on his words, this is a progressive relationship layer by layer, self-own beauty - others - other people's beauty, if a person wants to recognize a kind of beauty, he must pass these four levels layer by layer, so in the eyes of many people, beauty is difficult to define. In fact, beauty exists objectively, and it does not change because a person approves of it or not.
From Zhang Tianhe's point of view, Athena, this matter is more than that, in his cognition, this progressive relationship is like this: the stars - himself - his own goal - Athena's danger - Athena's beauty as a woman, oh, you can see why he has no feelings for Athena, or a little bit of feeling, but it is too dangerous and troublesome, so he will get her back to Mars. In fact, it would be a good thing for everyone if Athena arrived on Mars safely at that time, but there will always be a force in the shadows that will come out to dictate the direction of things, so that more peaceful events cannot happen. Some people say that this kind of thing is called fate, but it is not, but it is just a variety of material, conscious, and spiritual forces that are intertwined to promote the development of history. For Zhang Tianhe, there is nothing beautiful in the stars, except that the stars are of course his own best, Athena may be good-looking physiologically from the human body from a purely aesthetic point of view, but it is useless to recognize this, he has too many other things before recognizing her beauty, so in his eyes, she is not beautiful or not, but an extremely dangerous force.
But this is not the case for Xu Tianqi, he doesn't think that the Star is more beautiful than Athena, so he has to look at this issue from a different angle. For Zhang Tianhe, the Star is like an extremely beautiful wife, and he has this wife, he can do a lot of great things with her, they are going to be with each other for a lifetime, and it is best to live and die together, you don't care if the stupid big black Star can be compared with the handsome Athena, but Zhang Tianhe's feelings are like this, so no matter how beautiful you are, it is useless for him, and he can't shake his loyal heart to the Star. Xu Tianqi doesn't have this, he doesn't have any responsibility or obligation or feelings or love for the Star, he just serves on the ship as a big soldier, and he can't go down one day, so it is difficult for him to have any deep attachment to the Star, if he loves Athena more than the Star, it is understandable, he does feel that Athena is 10,000 times more beautiful than the Star - for him, this beauty is realistic, can be seen and touched, so he has a feeling similar to love for Athena within a few days.
To be fair, it is understandable to empathize with people like Shi Kening and Xu Tianqi for Athena's uncontrollable love, because Athena, in her own words, is going to marry God as a wife, and it is not surprising that a person has a love for her.
This affection of his has to have a huge impact on the development of the story, so we have to explain it, and then we have to go back to Mars and explain what the love of the people on Mars is like.
Let's define love first, this is a kind of thing that people who have not had it are desperately suppressed, maybe we can compare it with something on the earth, that is, money. Money and love show the same nature and characteristics, and the people who have or have owned it are mysterious and don't want to talk about it seriously, and if you have to talk about it, these people will talk to you about it: this thing, there are good and bad, but in general, the more the better, because it can improve the quality of life, do a lot of things you like to do, and you can't do anything without this thing - the last sentence is doubtful, because there is still a lot of things that can be done without money and love, But it may not taste so good in the eyes of others. If people talk about love words are too subtle to make people feel that they don't understand, in fact, most of the time you can completely swap love and money equally, no matter what the comment, say how beautiful love is, love can stimulate the greatest potential in people's hearts, love can make a person understand the meaning of life, love allows a person to find a more perfect self, etc., you exchange money for love and take a look, I go, isn't it a truth? Then, turn around again, some people say that the beauty of love is what people make up to deceive people, love only makes people miserable, love makes people sad more than their hearts die, love makes a lively and positive person become gloomy, silent and insensitive, etc., hey, money can also achieve the same effect, isn't it. If you see it, if love is too mysterious, then you will feel that it is actually the same thing if you substitute money for a second look, if the money is real, then love must be real, because the effect of the two is exactly the same! The pleasure that a rich man can experience in a 3,000-square-meter villa and a loving person living in a 30-square-meter daily rental are almost the same, and both have the same power. Then, from another perspective, if money is material, love is the soul, it seems that chasing these two can give people supreme pleasure, they do not judge right and wrong, they are like the universe we said earlier, and a character trait that they show in general is indifference: it not only does not care about you, but also does not care about any person, creature, nation, planet, their laws will not change because of anything, if there is something that has been changing, it should be the consciousness of the person caught between the two. Consciousness behaves like a lost dog here, the substance and the soul stand at two ends respectively, sometimes they have food in their hands, sometimes they kick the consciousness violently, and the consciousness tastes the sweetness and stays here for a while, and when it is kicked, it runs to the other end with a whimper. This is a bit like the earthlings, for those who can't figure this out, as soon as love is frustrated, he gritted his teeth and wrote a bloody letter saying that from now on, I only recognize money, and if I lose all the money, I will feel that there is still true love in the world, and it is useless to ask for so much money. Vice versa. When I taste the sweetness of love, I think I can have money or not, anyway, love has fallen in love with me like this, do I want anything else? After I have a few money, I will think, it doesn't matter what my feelings are, as long as I have money, there will be countless people who like me...... Tsk, the real masters are walking dogs, not being walked, people's consciousness is firmly going to a place, what is needed to struggle, sober mind step by step to the material or soul approach, which requires a cognitive foundation in people's consciousness, just like the roots of plants. The common situation is that there are roots, and they drill down lifelessly, stubborn like an animal like a human being, only feel that their roots are rooted in the right place, in fact, they are pestled into the dung pit at one end, because you will find that there is a kind of person with a smell that no one likes to associate with him, as if everyone is chasing something and trying around, only he rushes into the pit without saying a word, saying nothing and not coming out, taking the pleasure of skimming dung as the highest pursuit of being a man, then there is only left to deal with him.
People behave strangely and unpredictablely, but you will find that many times the vast majority of people are walking around their consciousness by two things, matter and soul, as mentioned earlier, and one moment with this kind of thought, and sometimes with that kind of mind, and no serious person can do something like this. Therefore, as an earthling, money and love are actually two sides of the same coin, and it is important to pay attention not to be walked by them, but to walk them as much as possible. Of course, a person's own energy is limited, and he may not move, but keep a clear mind, taste the sweetness, not be arrogant, and be kicked without getting angry, it is still possible to do it, not the consciousness that dominates your behavior, but how you dominate the consciousness, how to recognize, how to form the action, it is more reasonable. In this sense, earthlings are tired enough, because they have to maintain their position in this kind of rolling torrent every day, as if it is difficult enough, but compared to the Martians, if they can come up with such a clear idea, they will be moved to tears.
No matter how hard the earthlings work, they always have a head, either to pursue money or love, which are the two most refreshing and exciting themes in life, but the Martians have found more and more that they seem to have failed for them in the past two hundred years. Because of the abundance of energy, most of the material means of living are no longer a problem, and the card fairy is in a high position, but the quality of life of a grassroots soldier like Xu Tianqi is not much different, as long as you are a citizen of Mars, the government will give you a fairly high level of life. It was only after a while that the Martian government realized that this kind of indiscriminate utopia would form a serious social problem, because everyone had nothing to pursue, so the government at that time imagined a target such as reproductive rights, and used various scientific deductions to demonstrate to people that the infinite reproduction of the population would cause the chaotic effect, and eventually it would drag Mars down the old path of the earth. What were the Martians of the past most afraid of? I'm afraid that I don't even have a nest like the earthlings, so this policy was implemented after a referendum, and the cultural quality of the Martians is generally relatively high, which was decided from the beginning, who will send a hooligan to Mars? This policy has been maintained for 200 years without any major problems, only some details have been modified, such as changing the original accumulation system to the current point system, changing the original unconditional pass to the current two-tier review, the first layer reviews your basic conditions and your contribution to Mars, and the second layer is the layer that stuck Zhang Tianhe down, they review what Mars secrets, and no one knows their standards. But there is a problem with this policy now, that is, it was originally used to control the Martian population and set a life theme, and now the Martian population has declined slightly, coupled with their serious aging, the population is actually useless. As for the theme of life, let everyone pursue something, and everyone has become more and more diversified in the past two hundred years, and many Martians do not feel that there is any binding force on them in such a thing as reproductive rights, and it is okay not to have children, because there seems to be no reason to have children - they basically can't even feel love.