Chapter 468: Differences in Civilizations
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The scientific and technological civilization and the cultivation civilization focus on the development of systematic power, drawing the driving force of development from every individual citizen and every industry sector. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe power of ordinary people who were originally insignificant combined to form a civilization can finally have the terrifying power to turn the world upside down and exterminate living beings!
Therefore, the scientific and technological civilization is strong as a whole.
And the cultivation civilization is a classic jungle society, an individual civilization!
Although the cultivation civilization is the same as the scientific and technological civilization, if it wants to develop healthily, it is also necessary to have a sound industry in all walks of life.
A true master of the cultivation world, if he wants to gradually stand out from the soil of cultivation civilization, in addition to the indispensable personal talent, talent, qualifications, understanding, and diligence, he is also indispensable to the systematic support of the entire cultivation civilization.
Because the master also grew up little by little from ordinary people, when he began to cultivate, he also needed to have countless cultivation foundations, the most basic spiritual energy supply, the gathering of spiritual qi in the spiritual array, the inheritance of the knowledge and skills of the elders, the supply of various elixirs, the replenishment of spiritual food and vegetables, weapons, magic weapons, spiritual weapons, and other equipment, as well as the doctors and seniors in the cultivation world who gave treatment and guidance when they were injured and gave treatment and guidance when they made mistakes in their cultivation, and so on.
And even after the master really grows up, these supporting things are also indispensable, and even, with the higher the realm of the monk's cultivation, the higher the grade of the professionals required in all aspects, and the higher the quality of the demand for various supporting services.
However, all these walks of life and all supporting systems are all for one purpose and one individual to serve.
The cities, sects, and core elements of existence in the cultivation world have always been individuals with the highest martial arts.
Once the highest attained practitioner dies or is destroyed, and there is no successor of sufficient weight, then, in the shortest possible time, all walks of life, manpower and material resources that depend on this practitioner will be scattered and absorbed by other cities.
Therefore, the core of spiritual civilization is the individual!
At first glance, the similarity between the cultivation civilization and the technological civilization is also quite high, both have cities, all walks of life, and all have amazing overall power of civilization.
However, a closer analysis shows that the differences between the two types of civilization are actually quite large.
With the continuous development of new fields of knowledge and the continuous differentiation of new industry categories, a larger and larger civilization system will eventually be produced, and a variety of different scientific and technological creations suitable for the survival and development of civilization will be born.
With the continuous development of scientific and technological civilization, scientific and technological civilization is naturally constantly expanding its boundaries, opening up closed independent systems, and concentrating all the elements of survival and production under one system.
If we have to say that there is a core of the science and technology system, then the core of the science and technology system can only be said to be top-down, which is used to run through and connect the core management organization of all levels, regions and industries of the entire civilization, that is, the civilized government.
The reason why a civilized government can assume the heavy responsibility of the core of its civilization is that it has mastered many resources within its civilization system, especially the core resources of war and violence.
In the civilization pattern of interstellar civilization, this supreme force is the faster-than-light spaceship belonging to a civilization and the corresponding combat system.
With the armed forces with the faster-than-light fleet as the core, supplemented by all kinds of other powers and resources, a civilized government can influence the development of the entire civilization through various channels, policies, and means, and can barely be regarded as the entire civilization and the core.
But even if this core is destroyed, only the original manpower of the civilization is needed, and the original scientific and technological system still exists, then after a period of reconstruction, the scientific and technological civilization can still be restored in a relatively short period of time.
Therefore, even the core management system of scientific and technological civilization is not essential, and it can still be replaced.
And even individuals who directly possess the management and command power of faster-than-light spaceships, although they also have relatively high social status and economic income within civilization, they are not the most powerful people within a civilization by any means.
Because within the scientific and technological civilization, everyone is replaceable, and everyone is checked and balanced by each other.
Although the faster-than-light spaceship is powerful, and the power of violent armies can easily destroy the planet and subvert the regime, in the internal system of scientific and technological civilization, such violent groups are still checked and controlled.
Whether it is the restrictions of the army's management system, the army's material supply system, or the core control authority of the army's equipment, it can balance the sudden riot of a violent army.
Therefore, in a scientific and technological civilization, it tends to be integrated, decentralized, flattened, and any component can be replaced at will like a component, which is the most fundamental characteristic.
Even if sometimes a certain part is particularly excellent and powerful, enough to drive the development of the entire civilization, when the part is scrapped, although the speed of the development of civilization may tend to slow down or even stop because of this, the stability and security of the entire civilization will not be affected.
However, in the cultivation civilization, the situation can be said to be completely different.
The strong in the cultivation civilization are like the highest armed equipment of the scientific and technological civilization, and they are a core key to the security and development of civilization, and the core key to the influence of civilization.
However, unlike the highest armed equipment under the civilization of the scientific and technological system, no matter how sophisticated, complex, precious, and powerful each piece of equipment is, it can be copied and mass-produced, and it takes countless industries and factories to work together to produce and maintain.
No matter how powerful the armed equipment of scientific and technological civilization is, it itself has no will, no tendency, and is controlled by the outside.
It is conceivable that even the highest-level weapons do not exist independently, so there will be no other things or systems that exist independently, and a scientific and technological civilization cannot escape the trend of flattening in any case.
A scientific and technological civilization, no matter how many parallel scientific and technological systems and parallel management systems there are at its initial stage of development, but with the development of time, it will gradually concentrate on a scientific and technological system, a centralized management system, although there may be multiple marginal systems within the scientific and technological system, but to a certain extent, these systems are interconnected and there are docking channels.
But the cultivation civilization is completely different.
In an independently developed cultivation civilization, it will definitely be fragmented and torn!
Even if there are peerless and powerful fierce people who can knead a scattered cultivation civilization into a whole, if they can't eradicate the independent existence of those deep-rooted cultivation sects with ancient traditions, it still can't change the essence of the cultivation civilization that ordinary people are dependent on and vassal to the strong in terms of economy and security.
After Sima Mulong's father achieved the Golden Immortal Realm, although he had been working hard to change the scattered nature of the cultivation civilization, he wanted to integrate the resources of the Canglan civilization, so that the Canglan civilization could use the foundation of the cultivation civilization to finally combine the advantages of the cultivation civilization and the scientific and technological civilization to develop the Canglan civilization into a super civilization beyond the level of the cosmic civilization, and finally help him break through to the realm above the golden immortal.
But because Sima Jinxian's background was too low, and the Canglan civilization was an ancient cultivation civilization that had developed hundreds of millions of years of foundation, the powerful sects and ancient forces in it could not be remembered, and even some of the great powers that had achieved the realm of heavenly immortals because of various opportunities were quite existing in the dark.
It can be said that at that time, except for Sima Jinxian personally, more than ninety percent of the strength of the entire Canglan civilization was concentrated in these ancient sects.
Even if Sima Jinxian wants to integrate the Canglan civilization with the body of a golden immortal, he still has to take huge risks and resistance, and the most important thing is that almost more than ninety-nine percent of the core cultivation resources of the Canglan civilization are in the hands of various ancient sects.
Sima Jinxian was also ruthless in the process of forming the Canglan civilization, collecting a large number of core cultivation resources from the hands of these ancient sects, and he was also ruthless at one time, striking hard at the arrogance of some major sects, and even destroying the sects.
It's just that in this way, under the broken net, some ordinary resources of these sects can still be retained, but some of the most essential things, such as the inheritance of the exercises, rare treasures, etc., have been completely destroyed under the decision of those sects, so that Sima Jinxian is helpless.
In the end, Sima Mulong also had to choose a compromise, because if he blindly did it, even if the Canglan civilization was finally integrated, there would not be much left.
And those ancient sects, knowing that Sima Jinxian was already a great power of the Golden Immortal and could not be defeated, they also simply admitted defeat and surrendered to Sima Jinxian, and offered all the funding from the secrets of the exercises to the cultivation resources, and then to the top masters, just to ensure the inheritance and independence of the sect.
After all, no matter how strong he is alone, it is impossible for him to knock all these sects to the ground at once and loot all resources, since he can't do it, of course, there is only cooperation.
As a result, under the trap of the mouse, Sima Mulong pressed the pace of reform, prepared to boil frogs in warm water, and completed the integration of those ancient great sects step by step under the influence of time.
However, the vitality of those truly top-level sects is too tenacious, even on the eve of the demise of the Canglan civilization, there are still more than ten major sects that have been preserved, and there is a huge independence and autonomy within the civilization, even Sima Jinxian wants to use manpower and material resources, but he can't avoid the existence of these big sects.
Because of the existence foundation of these great sects for hundreds of millions of years, the entanglement of connections within the Canglan civilization is simply cut and unorganized, and at least two-thirds of the thousands of heavenly immortals in the Canglan civilization are inextricably linked with these great sects, and even the final collapse of the Canglan civilization is indispensable to the handiwork of these great sects.
If we say that scientific and technological civilization is like a mass of batter that is constantly spreading and spreading, and is disconnected from each other. In addition to the flour and sugar grains wrapped in peanuts, even if black vinegar is poured on the plate, so that the peanuts can exchange each other's substances, this cannot change the fundamental independence of peanuts.
The strong people with a high realm are the peanuts on the plate of cultivation civilization, they may be organized, sectarian, Alliances or other things, but these external things can't affect these powerful people who gather together, they have everything on their own, except for being affected by the stronger ones to a certain extent, there is almost nothing that can restrict their existence, those beings who support them, even depend on the safety and environment provided by the strong, and they must be continuously supplied with resources to these strong people, and where can they influence the will of these strong people.
For these strong people, if they really encounter a strong man who is not capable of the enemy, they will flee if they can escape, and if they can't escape, they will surrender, and if they don't accept surrender, then they will fight to the death, as long as the strong man himself escapes, all the vassals can be re-established, and it is not a problem at all. Therefore, the ordinary people and the weak who practice civilization, although they are like ants, can be easily destroyed, but these strong people, who are the main body of civilization and the highest force, their survival ability and destructive ability are quite not to be underestimated.
Cultivating civilizations are usually composed of such plates of "peanuts".
Although from the perspective of social structure, the cultivation civilization is far inferior to the perfect structure of the scientific and technological civilization, but as the combination of the strongest point and the weakest point of the cultivation civilization, it is not easy to deal with it. Their destructive ability is incredibly powerful, and once they cultivate to the realm after the ghost immortal, their ability to survive is even stronger, and it has reached a state comparable to cancer.
These cultivators above the realm of ghosts and immortals may not have the ability to fly faster-than-light, but even faster-than-light spaceships can't resist their infiltration and invasion, and if these powerhouses are allowed to infiltrate the interior of the technological civilization, then they will be like appendages, becoming an existence that the technological civilization cannot deal with at all. (To be continued.) )