Chapter 543 Radicals and Conservatives
There are many retired people, and there are few people who are replenishing, but the total project volume has almost no change. The process of compressing the population is so painful.
Zhou Hua took a look at the TV and said, "If you change the channel, the radicals and conservatives are quarreling again."
"What do you mean? What new plans have the radicals made?" Wang Haifeng asked after eating two peanuts.
Times are changing, and human society is naturally changing.
According to the conventional sense, conservatives are the forces that have been extending to the new human government.
They firmly believe that human beings need to achieve this big goal. The predecessors have put in eight hundred years of hard work and can achieve it in six hundred years. How can they give up halfway?
This force has been firmly pushing forward the goal, including the extraordinary people returning from the virtual world, who are basically members of the conservatives. Even if this promotion is breeding public grievances and slowly consuming the credibility of the entire government... As long as this plan is completed, all contradictions can be resolved.
The radicals are the latest political force to emerge. They are not satisfied with the current status of human civilization and try to launch a series of internal reforms. The first thing they bear is to improve the happiness of the people.
At present, in order to achieve this big goal, the vast majority of the entire civilization's productivity has been spent, the quality of life has declined, and the public has complained. Some people have even begun to choose to shorten their lifespan, retire early, and enter the virtual space. This is definitely not a normal behavior!
Of course, the radicals also believe that the big goal must be accomplished. If you don’t complete it, you will also get into evil with the Toss civilization. But how to complete it well and quickly is another problem.
“…It is an immoral and inhumane act to kidnap a person’s life on the wheel of the entire civilization!”
Zhou Hua imitated the empty political slogans of radical leaders and laughed out loud at the same time.
"Humans need freedom, the right to choose their own work..."
"After graduation, students should not become accurate screws!"
"At present, this brainwashing education method requires great reform."
People who are a little older know that this kind of slogan is difficult to achieve. It is simple to shout a slogan. It is very beautiful, but how can you truly implement it?
Wang Haifeng said: "You are wrong. More people will not think about whether this series of slogans are naive or whether they can be completed. They only care about the position of these slogans and whether they can satisfy their deep wishes."
Human beings actually have a strong tendency, that is, they have their own position.
If a thing has its own position, even if it is wrong, people will choose to support it.
On the contrary, if a thing stands on its own side, even if it conforms to objective facts, people will despise it.
My butt is crooked, and everything is crooked.
Although citizens of the new human civilization have received good education, there has been no change in fundamental human nature. The current public grievances are gradually accumulating, and the civil stances are also slowly changing.
What politics emphasizes is hat management. What does it mean? That is, you have to put a high hat on the public and gain a sense of psychological superiority.
The new human civilization has witnessed many stories in history, the decline of the earth civilization, and various low-level civilizations that cannot be developed.
Compared with this type of civilization, people have a sense of moral superiority in their hearts.
In order to maintain this sense of superiority, I don’t mind sacrificing some of my own interests to pursue “civilization progress”, which is the goal pursued by the New Civilization School.
But what about now? Working here in a dark and dark way, the mainstream thoughts are slowly changing, and this high hat is about to fall off.
Life is not satisfactory, at least it is not as satisfactory as before, not as imagined... Then people need to vent.
The easiest way to vent your emotions is to scold the government for doing nothing. If the government is replaced, everything will get better...
This has never changed for tens of thousands of years. People think that as long as they come to power, they can definitely be better than they are now.
"Doesn't it sound ridiculous? We're all in the interstellar era, and that's the case."
Wang Haifeng sighed, "I have been reading history books recently and found some very interesting things. In the 21st century, there was a small country with frequent regime changes and people often marched on the streets. Do you know the reason why they marched on the streets?"
Zhou Hua said: "It's not good for the economy."
"Wrong, they want more social benefits!"
Zhou Hua said in confusion: "Isn't social welfare an economic problem?"
Wang Haifeng smiled and said, "No, no, no, they don't consider economic issues... They just want more social welfare. Whoever gives them social welfare will elect whoever."
"Then what?"
"Of course, the government will be replaced. The old government was kicked out because the new government promised that it would increase social welfare."
"After changing the government, I found that I had no money at all. Unless I borrowed money from foreign countries to pay benefits, I would not be able to do it at all. The promise was not fulfilled, so the people started to make trouble and continued to change the government."
The government is facing the same problem now. In fact, a series of living resources such as food, clothing, housing and transportation are very abundant, but people are still not satisfied.
People want more rest time, this wish cannot be said to be unreasonable, but at this point in time...
Similarly, the series of slogans proposed by the radicals do have a certain degree of incitement. There are many young people who respond. They don’t care much about how to achieve it, they only care about better results.
Even if this result is likely to be just illusory and cannot be done at all, they will still believe it.
"As the past, the ageing became serious, people's work pressure became increasingly greater. The political power of radical factions has also begun to gradually rise, no longer as it used to be. It was just drizzle decades ago."
"Social changes are really complicated." Wang Haifeng shook his head and ate another peanut. "However, many new civilization historians had foresaw this problem hundreds of years ago, which is really amazing."
"But they did not propose a solution, perhaps there was no solution in itself, and they could only be solved by enduring."
"Or... Actually, there are some solutions, but these solutions are not easy to use, which will cause greater trouble?"
He is not very interested in radicals and conservatives, but he also knows that there is absolutely no internal chaos at this moment.
There is a prerequisite: the entire project plan cannot be given up.
Don’t be clamoring on TV shows, most citizens are silent. Relying on social inertia, they will continue to carry out their work at hand.
The power of the radicals is far from enough to overthrow the rule of the conservatives, and they themselves dare not give up on this plan and can only play some edge balls.
New Humanity holds talks with Toss civilization every year to publish the construction of planetary engines in this article and supervise each other. How much work has everyone done and how much driving force each engine provides, you can know it with professional instruments and it is clear at a glance. Both sides must tell each other honestly.
However, after a hundred or two hundred years of "honeymoon", friction gradually increased because there will always be some mistakes in the construction of planetary engines.
If you make mistakes, you must condemn each other and create conflicts.
Fifty-three years ago, a planetary engine on the New Human Side failed and was extinguished for 33 days, causing the planet to deviate by 0:003 milliseconds!
So the human side was criticized and condemned by the Toss at the end of the year meeting, as if the entire plan was about to fail.
Of course, the Toss also made such mistakes and were criticized by humans.
In short, every mistake made by both sides will make the fault tolerance lower. This is just a contradiction caused by the shutdown. If the two planets really collided due to delayed construction periods, the entire plan will fail and both sides will have to go directly to war!
"So, the radicals also know their weight. They can't afford to fight and die. This plan still needs to continue."
Zhou Hua also picked up a wine glass and took a small sip: "Their method is too ideal. But it sounds like people's lives are indeed better than they are now."
"In the current situation where technology cannot significantly improve, the best way is to expand the population and reduce aging. As long as the population expands, more things can be done, productivity will naturally increase."
"When productivity increases, working hours can be strictly controlled and people's sense of happiness can be improved."
"Expand population?" Wang Haifeng mocked: "At that time, the spaceships in the interstellar trading market will not be able to accommodate so many people. Who stays here to die with the neutron star? Or put people in the virtual space and pack them away?"
"Yes, they just want to put people in a virtual space and take them away and abandon their bodies, but the old government disagrees, firmly disagrees, and basically opposes them."
"Why don't you agree?"
"They say that the laws related to virtual world technology are the key constitution of mankind, and they cannot be touched unless they have to."
"The radicals think that such rules and regulations are too rigid. Even if the constitution is designated by people, they can be modified. Now is a critical moment, so what if it is revised?"
The two also had differences at this time. Wang Haifeng felt that the constitution could not be changed at will, but Zhou Hua felt that it was feasible.
One person can be rational, and the differences between ten people can only be barely wise. One thousand people can’t even be wise. Everyone has their own ideas and can only be constrained by universal values.
What about a civilization? With more people, no one can convince anyone, and they will feel that some inexplicable methods have become good solutions.
"Drip!" Suddenly, a harsh scream sounded from the contactor.
The two people who were arguing about looked down and saw that it was not a big deal. It was a machine that was malfunctioning and the intelligent robot could not handle it and needed manual processing.
"I'll go, I won't argue with you anymore."
"Can I drink some wine?" Zhou Hua said with a smile.
"Of course!" Wang Haifeng waved his hand, put on the power armor again, and sank into the dark earth.
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Chapter completed!