Chapter 1388: The Call of the Stars (14)
Schiller took a sip of his wine and sighed slowly.
For a long time before, he was busy making all kinds of people unlucky, starting from wanting Valhalla and paying attention to death, until OAA hung this universe outside the big world, he has been busy with the long-term layout, and ignored the current very difficult problem, that is, the growth of young heroes.
If you think about the current situation on the earth, you can see that human civilization is most lacking in talents, not superheroes.
The scope of talents not only includes scientists who have mastered knowledge and technology, but in fact, there is really no shortage of technical and inventive talents, and what is lacking now is mainly the backbone of leadership with good organizational skills, a righteous heart, and abundant physical strength and energy for serious work.
To some extent, how much water can be filled in a bucket depends not only on the short board and long board of the barrel, but also on the density and hardness of most of the other boards.
The problem facing humanity is that almost no one imagined that the times would move so fast except for Schiller, and the young heroes represented by the Avengers interns, Matt's cadets, and the independent youth hero squad like the New Warriors were still cultivated as superheroes for a long time.
They are righteous, energetic, and under long-term guidance and training, they also have a good military and strategic mind, the only problem is that there are too many muscles in their brains.
Again, although education is people-oriented, and what individuals can develop into depends on their own talents and efforts, it is not impossible to find problems at the social level.
Schiller almost single-handedly pushed human civilization forward a big step, but after he made this big step, he was busy wrapping the ball of yarn, so this group of young heroes who could have become the best talent reserve were still limited to serving justice on the streets, punishing evil and promoting good, and fighting the enemy.
Among them, the stronger organizational skills are at most like nightthrushes to pull up a team of several people, and can barely make the team work without too many forks.
And the poor organizational skills are even worse, some are withdrawn and alone, some wear a mask to chatter, take off the mask is social fear, some are short-tempered, can't listen to people's words, and some have too soft personalities, hesitate, and believe what others say.
It may sound like a character flaw that is difficult to correct, but in fact, it is just that their teachers, elders, and peers are in an educational environment where they do not realize that their future responsibilities will require them to have good judgment, the courage to make timely decisions, the concentration to focus on goals from beginning to end, and the willpower to follow through.
Because to be a street hero, you don't really need these traits, you just need to be kind enough and be able to fight, but the times are changing too fast, and now street heroes can't solve the problem, or rather, it's too wasteful to use them to solve the problem of street policing, so they naturally have to learn these traits.
Therefore, the fundamental contradiction faced by young heroes today is the contradiction between the earth's growing demand for a pool of leadership talents and the lack of education received by potential young heroes.
After a little more leisure, Schiller also discovered this, but because he hadn't paid attention to these young heroes for a while, and didn't know what their level was, he approached Matt in advance, hoping to find out what the young heroes were at.
But Matt showed him just how good this group of young people really is, which made Schiller realize that in some areas the problem of undereducation is not the students, but the teachers.
The teachers' concept has not changed, and they still hope that everyone can have strong force, peace of mind, and the concept of kindness, which is not wrong, but it is not suitable for the current era.
Then the education around these aspects seems to be a little backward, and the Daredevil Matt, Captain America Steve, and even Stark, who teaches Spider-Man knowledge and technology, are not good at sociology, they can't weave webs, and they can't wrap yarn balls.
Obviously, in this era, it is unrealistic to solve problems by brute force alone, the wheels of history are rolling forward, the tide of the times is sweeping the sand, and many contradictions have no right or wrong at all, just the conflict between the old and the new.
Therefore, the old concept of distinguishing between the good and the bad, and then retaining the good and defeating the bad, will inevitably give rise to a metaphysical way of doing things, and if it is not restrained, it will only do bad things with good intentions, so that justice will become dictatorship, and fall into the trap of another zero-sum thinking.
Schiller knew this clearly, but he knew better that he couldn't just rush up and say to everyone that "you taught wrong" or "you learned wrong", that strong force and a righteous heart were important at all times, but Schiller was more concerned with the missing part.
As a result, Schiller sent Hydra agents to the Bronx where the protests broke out, but these agents did not deliberately exacerbate the conflict or stop the riots, but let it go while observing what kind of approach the young superheroes represented by the new Warriors team took in the face of this matter.
It was a thorough exam, and although Schiller didn't care if they were good or bad, and just needed an evaluation result, the final result could still be called terrible.
Matt's restraint and prudence that he has always emphasized to these young heroes has become another kind of shackle, and those young people who are impulsive and irritable, although they will not get into trouble because of this restraint, those leaders who are originally decisive will also be afraid and hesitant because of this.
This is arguably the worst possible outcome.
Schiller is not actually worried about the young heroes being reckless, making mistakes due to lack of experience, or being blinded and unable to distinguish between right and wrong, what he is most afraid of is that young people show a kind of swaying from side to side, advancing or retreating, wanting to say but not daring to say, wanting to do but not daring to do.
Because the former mistakes are only because they are young, they are easy to solve with experience and experience, but if the latter is the latter, it means that their personality is being shaped by an unhealthy environment in some way.
Professor X's evaluation of Lelandra, the queen of the Xia Empire, is exactly like this, agreeing with something but not daring to fully agree, opposing something but not opposing it to the end, and constantly comforting himself with what he sees is good, but in fact, he just lacks judgment and courage.
Of course, the environment in which Lelandra was shaped was very bad, she grew up in depression, she had no inheritance, and she was not the most favored, because she had nothing to rely on, so she could only be cautious, and she had developed a conservative, cowardly, and vacillating personality over the years.
Perhaps from another point of view, the young heroes of the earth are also in this environment, and the planners of the higher level, such as the members of the Radiant Alliance, basically do not discuss with them any layout for the future development of mankind, and these heroes close to them, such as Daredevil Matt and Captain America Steve, are not full-time teachers, but just take the time to teach them.
And their companions are just as confused as they are, and in the tide of the times, the short life experience they have spent in ten or twenty years is simply not enough to tell them the answers to all their questions, neither to tell them whether they are important, nor how to make themselves more important.
As a result, they are like the blind stream of the times, not only empathizing with the hardships of the people at the bottom, but also feeling frustrated because they have abilities beyond ordinary people but cannot change the situation.
The way they deal with this pain and confusion is to think.
Two months after the protests that led to the Bronx, most of the new Warriors are still thinking, and not thinking about it at all.
The innocent Spider-Man is wondering whose fault it is, the nightbird from the rich class is wondering which class should take more responsibility, the speedball Robert is thinking about how to get the best of both worlds without hurting anyone, and Xu Shangqi is thinking about the good or bad of productivity development for ordinary people.
Everyone sat there dreaming, they didn't think about it together, so naturally they couldn't move together, but they knew that they couldn't sit still, so they could only passively slack off and patrol for months, as if the problem had been solved by maintaining law and order.
From Schiller's point of view, the plans of the previous generation have already left them with enough margin for error that even if they really make a big explosion and kill dozens or hundreds of people, Schiller can find a way to get them back from the realm of death.
But they sit still and do not make mistakes, but in the long run, their judgment of events, their acuity for timing, and the kind of inspiration they need to make plans will be worn away in the long run.
In time, there will be a broader stage for the people of the Radiant Alliance, these young heroes will always step up to the stage and lead humanity forward, but at that time, if they are just a group of leaders who are good at fighting, hesitating in the face of problems, and sitting there all day long, it will really be a disaster for human civilization.
While drinking and eating, Schiller recounted his thoughts to Matt, mentioning: "I contacted Spider Silk and sent her a separate mission to find the more special ones in all the universes, especially the ones that are dangerous. ”
"And in the results she fed back to me, I found a very special universe, Spider Silk's evaluation of this universe is that she just projected her attention to this universe through the spider totem, and the spider sense was already like a brain explosion."
"Isn't that dangerous?" Matt's eyes widened and he said.
"It's dangerous, and it's beyond the norm, beyond imagination." Schiller nodded and said, "The most important thing is that these young heroes are far beyond the powerful abilities of ordinary people, and I am afraid that they will not be able to become a guarantee for their survival. ”
"What?" Matt immediately raised his voice, he glared at Schiller with godless eyes and said, "Then how can you make sure ......"
"Although they will definitely be wounded, bleeding, or even die to some extent, I will not do nothing and throw these greenhouse flowers directly into hell."
"Actually, I've already sent someone to touch the exam room, remove those unnecessary obstacles as much as possible, and even reduce the difficulty a little."
Schiller drank the last sip of wine, and laid the cup on the table, looked him in the eye with a cold gaze that Matt could not understand, and said:
"Don't blame me for letting the child close to you die, if I had a child, he would be the first to bear the brunt."
Then, Schiller's focused eyes showed that nervous smile again.
"After all, I'm experienced in torturing each other with my own children."
(End of chapter)