Chapter 887: 536: Saving the Fallen Ones_1
Chapter 887: Chapter 536: Saving the Fallen Ones_1
This situation had never appeared in history before.
Both material civilization and spiritual civilization had reached far ahead, unprecedented in any era.
Such a phenomenon had never occurred in history, not even in the wildest imagination of the most radical sociologists.
It has always been the level of productivity that determines the level of material civilization, which in turn determines the level of spiritual civilization.
People need to first have enough food, warm clothing, a place to live and accessible roads before they can explore the stars at night, understand nature, ponder life and comprehend the mysteries of the universe while taking care of their basic needs.
This cause-and-effect relationship was practically nailed down in logic.
There were only two possibilities to break it.
First, humans receive support from benevolent alien civilizations, evolving rapidly from an earth-bound civilization to a stellar one within a short time. Unfortunately, this did not happen.
Second, an entire generation of people explode with unprecedented creativity in a short time, creating an explosive era.
Now, Harrison Clark had created the second possibility.
As the productive forces continued to grow rapidly under Harrison Clark’s guidance, the energy crisis crumbled, the widespread use of costless energy rapidly eliminated the environmental crisis, the resources of social production and living became abundant, and people gradually realized that they could have enough food and clothing even without working too hard or sacrificing themselves.
Moreover, Harrison Clark created a lot of entertainment content in this era.
Although he focused on positive content, the abundance of materials and the completely stress-free life led to people getting tempted by his high-quality entertainment, which immersed them in fake worlds.
In society, some groups even bizarrely developed the illusion that, after watching stories of other people’s hard work and struggle, they felt as if they had fulfilled their own lives and had no regrets or guilt.
This way of thinking was ridiculous, yet it objectively existed.
Although truly creative people would not be greatly influenced by external factors, some people did indeed become decadent.
Carrie Thomas noticed this problem and worried that these people would be eliminated by the era.
Hearing this, Harrison Clark laughed, saying, “Don’t worry.”
Although it seemed heartless, it was actually within his expectations.
When humanity enters the era of space, it will inevitably face continuous changes in social systems.
If it had been a normal human civilization, without any external enemies, it would have slowly advanced technologically and step by step entered the universe.
The universe itself is vast, and even just the small Orion Arm is of enormous scale. When human vehicles can only travel at half the speed of light or even slower, it would take years to travel from one star system to another, and it is more likely that the time consumption would be calculated in decades or even centuries.
Due to the infinite extension of distance, communication between different regions becomes extremely difficult.
It would take too long for information to reach from one star system to another.
Several generations, or even dozens of generations, would need to work in relay aboard a single large spacecraft before they could potentially reach their destination.
Under these circumstances, people would not choose to set sail on long journeys unless a specific group was determined to open up territories for themselves and their descendants.
Theoretically, distance would make human civilization show obvious regional differentiation, eventually forming different complex social systems.
Republics, military regimes, religious systems, capitalist federations, scientific systems, and slavery may all emerge.
The birth of each different system would have very complex reasons, related to the internal rules of the planetary system, as well as the ideas of the founders of the interstellar civilization base.
Furthermore, various systems should alternate and evolve among human civilizations for a long time.
Some systems would be overthrown, and after a period of evolution, they might return to the system that had once been overthrown.
People born and living under different systems would have different cultural systems.
Of course, after a series of complex struggles, as technology continues to advance, the coverage area of the real-time quantum network becomes larger, the speed of flying vehicles becomes faster, and ultra-high-speed transportation tools such as stargates and cosmic ladders gradually become popular. Human civilization will ultimately become unified and move towards a new republic.
Individuals would restrain themselves with self-discipline.
Groups, on the other hand, would supervise each other by striving towards common great goals in the universe.
The entire civilization would become an organic whole, a “Stellar Republic.”Under the Stellar Republic, individuals no longer need to solve their personal needs for food, clothing, housing, and transportation, as all demands are focused on self-actualization.
Now, under Harrison Clark’s artificial operation, the Stellar Republic has appeared ahead of time on Earth in the 21st century.
This inevitably leads to the growing pains of civilization.
It is destined that the genes of a portion of people will be ruthlessly eliminated.
Harrison Clark has even chosen a place for these people to live – the Australian Continent.
In the Millennium Plan, this is the price that must be paid in the process of advancing civilization.
Those who refuse to progress and keep up with the times are destined to be quietly eliminated by time.
This applies to the elderly, the youth, and even the children who are learning to talk.
If a child is not born into a family that keeps up with the times and does not receive a good education from a young age, they cannot find a way to overcome the difficulties of life as they grow up. They will ultimately sink into a society of high welfare, growing and aging with a “dispensable” attitude, and eventually die without anyone caring.
Even if they are forced to participate in the Compound Eye Crisis, these people can only manage to get by in life for the sake of the game, barely fulfilling their basic social responsibilities to achieve the lowest level of life value in the eyes of others.
There is no way around this.
In a sense, these people are also very happy because at least they feel very satisfied.
Harrison Clark is open-minded about this.
He has already seen too many similar things throughout history.
He has witnessed more brutal elimination methods, and this is so gentle that it is quite moving.
However, compared to Harrison Clark’s indifference, Carrie Thomas is ultimately more compassionate and finds it hard to bear.
“Can we publicly broadcast Morning Wind now? Try and see the effect? We have now mastered the soundless wave method that the human ear can’t hear, right? The cost isn’t high, is it?”
Carrie Thomas asked.
Harrison Clark shook his head, “No use, emotional enhancement will only make the degenerates more degenerate. The time has not yet come. I estimate that it will take at least a hundred years for us to build the Mercury Dyson Cloud and start manufacturing long-range spacecraft capable of crossing the universe and reaching Proxima Centauri. Only then will people be able to withstand the influence of Morning Wind. My initial estimation is that we will have to wait until at least 2150 to build the first long-range spacecraft.”
Carrie Thomas reluctantly shook her head, “I will always believe that there is goodness in people’s hearts. Genes determine that everyone has a deep desire to create.”
Harrison Clark nodded, “That’s true, but it’s a pity that some people can’t express these genes in their bodies. In future research, scholars have delved deeply into this problem. In our genes, we have both positive and negative aspects. It’s just that for normal people, the positive expression is only slightly higher than the negative expression.”
Carrie Thomas: “What about the superpower bacteria you mentioned?”
Harrison Clark: “When the superpower bacteria take effect, it suppresses all negative and adverse genes. But we cannot create superpower bacteria now.”
“So these people must be abandoned?”
“Yes.”
Carrie Thomas was silent for a long time, “Alright.”
She didn’t reveal what she had determined.
After completing Morning Wind, although her creative output had been increasing, she had been continuously exploring.
She had previously told Harrison Clark that she wanted to incorporate the characteristics of Freddy’s Grand Unified Theory into her melodies, reaching deep into the human brain and going to the genetic level to truly change her listeners.
Just as passionate music can stimulate the secretion of dopamine in people.
Carrie Thomas believed that since aliens could use the Song of the Wilderness to infiltrate and change human thought patterns, making them more mechanized.
Then, in theory, the melodies created by humans themselves should have even higher potential.
No one has done it before.
In the past timeline, no one did it later either.
But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done forever.
What do you think?
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