Chapter 66: Material and Spiritual
Lin Sen, standing on the rooftop, looking at this city with high-rise buildings, if the height of high-rise buildings represents the height of material civilization, then what represents the height of spiritual civilization?
From convincing people with virtue to today's law, has society really become more and more civilized? As the Internet that ignited the explosion of human information, it should have bloomed bright fireworks in the night sky, but now it is no longer full of flowers and a hundred schools of thought. Zhou Zhiqi stood on the rooftop and looked at the gray skyline, letting the gusts of wind blow and scatter her long hair, looking a little messy.
"In the past, I thought that the virtual world, which combines the achievements of human technology and civilization, would break away from the law of the jungle and become a new world where all beings are equal. Now, it seems, is nothing more than a utopia. ”
Lin Sen stroked Zhou Zhiqi's messy hair, hugged it in his arms and said: "That's because compared to the real world, which is not transferred by human will, the virtual world created by people truly reflects the spiritual world of people. ”
"Isn't the spiritual world of man moving forward?"
"Then tell me, how much has people's spiritual civilization progressed?"
Zhou Zhiqi thought that this was an obvious fact, but she was about to tell it but she couldn't talk about it. How much worse were the bad guys in ancient times than the bad guys in modern times? How much better are the good people of modern times than the good people of ancient times? It seems that human civilization is progressing, but is the proportion of good people in the world really increasing? When these most simple questions are placed in front of them, it seems to show that people's character has not changed since ancient times, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Lin Sen and said aggrievedly: "Don't you see that the world in front of you is getting better?" ”
Lin Sen looked into the distance and said slowly: "Whether it is beautiful or not is only a subjective feeling of people. ”
"What about the virtual world?"
"As time goes on, the virtual world will eventually grow old and decay, will you still find it beautiful then?"
Zhou Zhiqi stubbornly replied: "What if its soul becomes beautiful? ”
"The limitations of the virtual world lie in the limitations of people."
"You're saying that the spirit of the virtual world won't change either? If it blossoms and bears fruit, and then takes root again, will it be able to evolve? ”
"Your metaphor is very graphic, but I'm more inclined to interpret the process as an infinite loop. The virtual world is a material created by human beings, although the material civilization of human beings can be built through generations of laborers; But as a virtual world of the product of the human spiritual world, the spiritual civilization of human beings will not be written into the genes and passed on to the next generation, and the knowledge and character recorded by human beings through language and writing are two different things, and it is character rather than knowledge that represents spiritual civilization, but many people mistakenly understand spiritual civilization as knowledge. The spiritual civilization of mankind has not yet evolved, and the virtual world will not evolve, but will continue in cycles. ”
"I understand why people always heal their scars and forget the pain, and why history always repeats itself, because people's memories are only a few short decades."
"Looking back at this network connecting the whole world, it is to keep a larger group of people together in captivity, to achieve domination over more people, and to further amplify the wealth effect. In this squashed virtual world, the rising tide will inundate a wider range of habitats, and those who lose their habitats will eventually have to leave their homes to live in vain, and with the domino effect caused by the end of the song, this extremely inflated virtual world will also collapse rapidly. ”
"Will it go away?"
"It's going to go back to square one, and then it's going to grow again."
At this time, the system prompt sounds: "Data center data synchronization is completed, start to build the signal light system...... The mirror planet entered a 60-minute countdown, 59 minutes and 59 seconds ......"