"In a complex society with a division of labor, there will inevitably be institutions that are difficult to supervise." "For the current Apache, I am the institution. ”

Although the forehead tattoo has long been imperceptibly instilled with many similar concepts by the horse whistle, it is still inevitably a little difficult to accept when I hear this assertion.

"It's really...... Is it inevitable? He couldn't help but ask.

"It's inevitable, or the cost of avoiding it is unbearable." Ma Whistle said.

"How to avoid it?" Asked again.

Ma Whistle: "Just let society degenerate." If everyone is engaged in the simplest, self-sufficient work, old age and death do not get along...... Without social division of labor and cooperation, and without public interest, there is naturally no need for supervision. ”

There was a pause: "So, for a 'ultimate overseer' who can supervise everyone else but is difficult to be supervised by others, ensuring that society does not degrade is the most basic bottom line. ”

"Further, if an institution can successfully represent the requirements of the development of advanced productive forces, then it is the natural and inevitable ultimate supervisor, and no one can shake its position."

The forehead tattoo is thoughtful: "It represents the development requirements of advanced productive forces......"

"It's an important idea," Ma Whistle added. ”

Development is legitimacy.

It sounds more like an engineer mentality.

But politics is as it should be, and it is absurd to understand politics with the thinking of a mathematician.

Ma Whistle probably remembers that high school math textbooks used the Declaration of Independence as an example of axiomatic thought.

Of course, this thing is not tested in exams, so most students don't know about it, and most teachers don't know either.

The horse whistle is aware.

But he didn't approve of it.

He did not approve of the Declaration of Independence, or the political ideas of Europeans and Americans.

This idea, in simple terms, is that politics can be as perfect as mathematics, even detached from reality.

But mathematics itself is not perfect, it has flaws, and this flaw is fundamental, it is a flaw of humanity itself and even of the universe.

At the same time, mathematics can be divorced from reality and allowed axioms to extend freely in the world of logic, but politics can never do so.

Therefore, this political concept, which is very prevalent among Westerners, is destined to be a delusion, and it will bring disaster to politics.

Later generations of the United States have gradually confirmed this.

In the Declaration of Independence, the sanctimonious political axioms can only be reasoned about the prosperity of the litigants and the white left, but not any substantive justice.

The discussion between the two seems to be a little strange.

The question of the forehead tattoo was like a sharp question of the ruled against the ruler, but in fact neither of them felt any nervousness.

Because Ma Whistle has always been a teacher in his bones, and he is an excellent teacher, he regards the teacher-student relationship as more important than anything else.

The content of the discussion gradually deviated from the original intention and became math.

He asked, "There are things in any axiom system that cannot be proven...... Is this true? ”

"Isn't it the axiom itself?" Ma Whistle said casually, without saying much.

If you want to clarify this problem, you need a lot of prior knowledge, and a lot of it is ahead of its time, such as Russell's paradox and Gödel's incompleteness theorem, which are all things of the next century.

Not to mention Gödel's incompleteness theorem or Hilbert's delusional edifice of mathematics, even the famous joke of Kelvin's "edifice of physics" has not yet been born.

In this era, the greatest achievement of the exploration of the defects of human reason may be the reversal of Kant's two laws.

Even if it is as great as Kant, it is only the first glimpse of the way, revealing the idea for future generations, but not showing anything conclusive.

He was one of the most talented people in mathematics in the tribe, and he was also an honor student in the mathematics and science advanced class.

However, its real level is about the same as that of later high school students, and in terms of doing problems, the vision may not even be as good as that of junior high school students, and it is still too far to understand Gödel's theory.

All in all...... The water is too deep in this, and the horse whistle is afraid that he can't grasp the forehead pattern.

"If you're interested, you can first learn about Lobachevsky's geometry, which is covered in the books I brought." Ma Whistle said.

In addition to the basic necessities of life, the Apache West marching team also brought some books to California so that the Apache people here could continue their studies.

"Finally, after I leave, you will probably be the person with the highest level of mathematics and physics in the whole of California, remember to be a qualified teacher." He admonished again.

The forehead tattoo replied solemnly: "I understand, teacher." ”

After talking with the head tattoo, Ma Whistle packed up, rested for the night, and officially set off the next day.

The return party consisted of only about a hundred men, and only a small half were members of the original westward marching team, most of them new members, California Indians who had just joined the Apache, and a few white prisoners, including an artilleryman.

The main reason for this arrangement was that the number of people in the westward march was too small.

With less than 300 people, it is inevitable that they will be a little stretched to manage the three places of Xiquan Fortress, Donggu City, and Donggu Lumberyard, and implement the assimilation policy, and they will definitely not be able to bring more horse whistles.

Not only could he not bring back more, but he would have to send more people to California in the future.

Most of the members are newcomers, so the team is naturally not easy to lead.

For example, there was an incident on the road, where several Indians insisted on going to a legendary shrine two hundred kilometers away, but in the end they were at a stalemate, and the horse whistle had to let them leave the team on their own.

He was in a hurry to return this time, but he didn't have time to care about it.

It was already October when the horse whistle left California, and if it had been any later, he would have had to cross the entire West in the winter, which was a terrible plan.

At the same time, the Mexican-American War was coming to an end, and he had to take the next step.

He and his group hurried back to Kansas as quickly as possible.

Except for the departure of those few people, there were no twists and turns on the road.

For other groups, this is basically impossible.

Because the route taken by Ma Whistle is the most mild route in the natural environment, the natural environment is mild, but the social environment is relatively harsh.

Thanks to the mild natural environment, there are many Indian clans living along the route, all kinds of people.

When white people or Indians from other places come here, they are likely to be treated as invaders, and those with fewer people will not be able to deal with it.

But as a child of the sky who is becoming more and more famous in the Indian world, most Indian clans will give face, at least there will be no problem passing by.

So he was able to travel all the way and return to Sleeping Bear City in Kansas in mid-December, earlier than planned.