Chapter 408 Human Flaws

Su Mo returned to the edge building and went to the rooftop, where he was looking at the moonlight.

It started to snow in the second half of the night, and the moon was still hanging high between the gaps in the snow clouds, casting a faint silver glow. The snowflakes swayed and fell from the sky, reflecting the moonlight and reflecting little bits of light, like countless stars twinkling.

Crescent City is very quiet after nightfall. Everything seems to have fallen into a deep sleep. The high-rise buildings are looming in the snow. There is only the soft sound of falling snowflakes around, which is subtle and soft, as if whispering the unique tranquility of winter nights.

Snowflakes kept falling on Su Mo, melted into droplets by his body temperature. He exhaled gently, and a white mist condensed in front of him, shining brightly under the moonlight, and was blown away by the cold wind, dissipating instantly.

He just stared at the hazy city in the distance, watching the wisps of lights emitting a soft halo through the snow, waiting silently for something.

"Ta, tap, tap" At this moment, footsteps sounded behind him.

It was a little girl who looked like she had stepped out of a fairy tale. She looked about ten years old. Her long black hair fell down on her shoulders like splashes of ink. The moonlight illuminated her fair face, as if it were carved with the most delicate ceramics. It's made, so clear and flawless.

Those big obsidian eyes are extremely clear and pure, but they are not innocent and simple like children. The eyes retain the purity that should be expected at this age, but they also seem to have experienced countless worldly things and are complicated, showing a kind of inhumanity. A beauty that can never be found on the body.

Su Mo greeted the little girl cordially: "Mo Tong."

"Dad, you're back." Su Motong jumped up and sat down next to Su Mo. "Mom, you said you were looking for me?"

Su Mo smiled and said, "Hmm, I haven't chatted with you for a long time."

Su Motong blinked: "What does Dad want to talk about?"

Su Mo raised his head and murmured: "Yeah, what are you talking about? You already have all the knowledge about "human documents" in your mind, and you know everything in the true sense. I am just an ignorant primary school student in front of you."

"Why don't we talk about structures? You are familiar with structures and you are familiar with humans. In your opinion, what is the biggest difference between these two civilizations?"

Su Motong said slowly: "The biggest difference must be the social structure."

"The construct is a species that uses hive thinking to build collective consciousness. Except for the "queen bee" like me and the highest-level "master brain," the other "worker bees" have no independent consciousness and will only act according to instructions. "

"In a sense, structural civilization is very simple. The main brain and the queen dominate everything. What they think is what they do. There is no intrigue."

"Human beings are much more complex. Regardless of their status, whether they are political leaders or homeless people, they all have completely independent thoughts and may have different ideas anytime and anywhere."

"When I first came into contact with human documents, I really thought it was incredible. A species like human beings, where each individual has a different mind, could actually integrate and develop a splendid collective civilization. It is simply a miracle."

Su Mo nodded and continued to ask: "So in your opinion, from the perspective of species and civilization, which one is better, structures or humans?"

Su Motong replied without thinking: "Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. From a purely biological perspective, the structure is superior."

"Constructs have powerful inorganic bodies and almost no physical weaknesses. Even the most inferior constructs have physical abilities several times higher than those of the strongest ordinary humans."

"But there is a problem with the structure. Since the "worker bees" have no individual thoughts and cannot think, the entire population does not have the concept of "wisdom" at the innate level. "

“Although the ‘Mastermind’ and ‘Queen Bee’ have high intelligence, their way of thinking is linear without any twists and turns. "

"I learned from human documents that in the Doomsday War 156 years ago, the reason why humans with relatively weak hard power were able to defeat the structures relied on "intelligence" and used three-dimensional thinking to defeat linear thinking. "

"On the other hand, due to the lack of individual thought, structural civilization has only two elements-survival and expansion. All actions only serve these two points."

"Besides that, the structural civilization has no movies, no literature, no art, and no humanistic beauty."

"In comparison, human civilization is so brilliant. Various arts are like stars shining in the night sky. When I first came into contact with human documents, I was deeply fascinated by the "beauty" created by humans. "

Having said this, Su Motong smiled knowingly, looked at Su Mo and said deeply: "If I were asked to choose, I hope I am a human being."

Hearing this, Su Mo also smiled. He rubbed his black hair and hugged Mo Tong to admire the moon in the late winter night.

At this time, there was some snow around, and the moonlight reflected on the snow, forming a soft halo. Su Mo looked at the moonlight above his head and asked softly: "Mo Tong, why do you think there are rises and falls of political power and chaos in human history?" Circular phenomenon?”

"Looking at all the regimes so far, they all prospered at the beginning, but after a period of time, they fell into decline and were destroyed. Then new regimes rose from the ruins and went through this cycle again. Why is this?"

Su Motong wanted to give the answer, but she thought about it for a while.

Perhaps because she felt that speaking directly was not intuitive enough, she ran back to the room and got a box of building blocks that she had played with when she was a child.

She placed the blocks in front of Su Mo and said with a smile, "Dad, stack the blocks as high as you can."

Su Mo picked up the blocks and started to stack them. At first, they were stacked steadily, but when they reached waist height, they fell apart, probably because something underneath them was not arranged properly.

"I'll do it." Su Motong picked up the blocks and began to stack them by herself.

The blocks piled higher and higher, and soon exceeded the height of Su Mo's pile. In the end, she even had to ride on Su Mo's shoulders to continue stacking, until all the blocks were used up without falling down.

Structurally, the blocks are stacked into perfect columns.

This is perfection in the true sense of the word.

Even if we use the most sophisticated equipment to observe, even if we exhaust the current measurement limits of mankind, and the observation unit is as small as the lowest point of the Planck length, their center of gravity will be on a perfect straight line, without a deviation of one ami.

Su Mo looked at the stable column in front of him. Although it was just some children's building blocks, his eyes were like admiring a supreme work of art.

At this time, Su Motong began to answer the previous question: "As for the ups and downs, chaos, and the cycle you mentioned, it is actually the same as putting together building blocks."

"In the beginning, the blocks were scattered all over the floor. It was very easy to stack them because the physical center of gravity is very low, so they can be stacked very stably."

"Just like the end of the troubled times, it seems that the order has disappeared, but in fact everything is waiting to be reborn. As long as a capable person comes on the stage, integrates people's hearts and clears out the remaining evil, a stable regime can be established."

"But as the building blocks continue to be piled up, the accuracy of the hand is limited after all, and there will inevitably be deviations between the building blocks, large or small, which will ultimately affect the overall stability."

"This is like a regime that was prosperous and prosperous in the early days, but later on, "accumulated shortcomings" continued to appear in the process, such as the old ministers and nobles who were proud of their achievements, and the powerful families who monopolized resources."

“Some of the “long-standing shortcomings” were corrected in time, while others were left unattended, or no one discovered them at all, and they have been left to future generations. "

"And as those building blocks are piled higher, more and more "accumulated shortcomings" left over from the previous stacking become more and more unstable, and finally..."

Su Motong stretched out her little hand and knocked on the bottom of the building block column. The entire column fell apart with a crash, and various building blocks fell to the ground.

"In the end, like this, it was destroyed after the passage of time or external interference."

"This contains a sociological truth. If any political power wants to operate, it must require the flow of social resources, creating a cycle of up and down, inside and outside."

"This kind of circular flow is like a river. It flows continuously at first, but then someone starts to scoop out the water in the river, or simply builds a series of small dams to take the river water as their own. Finally, the flowing water becomes more and more If it is too small, it will fall into an endless cycle, and the river will naturally wither.”

Su Mo nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask: "In your opinion, has there ever been a perfect political system in the long history of mankind that can avoid this phenomenon at a fundamental level?"

Su Motong answered without hesitation: "Yes."

"Yes?" Su Mo was a little surprised by the answer. "Since there was a perfect system, why did that regime still die?"

Su Motong used her humor again and gave the answer very vividly: "Because rules are dead, but people are alive. Everything can be accommodating~"

Su Mo was startled for a moment, then burst into laughter.

Su Motong poked her father's face playfully and began to answer seriously: "The so-called rise and fall cycle is ultimately driven by people."

"Greed in human nature is destined to continue to concentrate social resources, and will inevitably lead to a lack of resource mobility, ultimately dragging everything into a cycle of destruction of new life and new life of destruction."

"A perfect system exists, but no matter how perfect the system is, it still needs people to implement it."

"Imperfection has always been human beings themselves."

Su Mo's eyes trembled, he held Su Motong tightly in his arms and murmured: "That's so good."

"I have heard an argument before that all social problems are caused by a lack of resources, and the solution is to develop technology and make the cake bigger."

"As long as the cake is made big enough, such as developing controllable nuclear fusion and room-temperature superconducting materials so that humans can have endless energy, it would be better to develop light-speed navigation technology and build spaceships to go into deep space, with almost unlimited power. With land and space, all problems will disappear.”

"They were wrong, so wrong."

"Just like the river you described, no matter how wide it becomes, even if it becomes an endless ocean, some people will build higher dams and take more sea water for themselves. This is caused by human greed. destined."

"Pure technological progress is useless, and neither is establishing a perfect system. As long as social activities still rely on human operation, nothing will change and history will only keep repeating itself."

At this point, Su Mo's eyes became serious: "Mo Tong, what do you think about our current war?"

Su Motong: "It's meaningless."

Su Mo: "Oh? What should I say?"

Su Motong looked at the night view of Crescent City from a distance. The gunpowder smoke above the ruins had dissipated. The flying snow had washed away all the dirt, but it could only wash away the trauma caused by the war to the city.

"Looking at the entire history of civilization, this war is insignificant. There are countless more tragic wars in history than ours today. They brought prosperity for a certain period of time, but all the results were ultimately wiped out."

"It's the same with this war. I believe we can win, but so what? In a few hundred years, a few decades, or even a few years, the fruits of victory will be stolen."

"Some of us will become the giants we are today, and then another group of people like us will appear and overthrow those giants. This is foreseeable."

Su Mo gently patted Su Motong's little head and deliberately said in a reproachful tone: "Why, Motong doesn't trust Dad and those companions? Do you think we will become evil dragons after slaying the dragon?"

Su Motong turned his black eyes. With big eyes, she playfully asked a question: "If Dad becomes the leader of the new world, and one day Mom breaks the law, and the crime is punishable by death according to the law."

"The crowd shouted, asking Dad to execute Mom according to the law and maintain the fairness and dignity of the laws of the new world."

"At this time, Dad happened to have a gun in his hand, what would you do?"

Su Mo said without hesitation: "I would shoot all those people, and if there are bullets left in the gun, I will shoot again to make sure they are dead."

This answer full of black humor made both father and daughter laugh.

Su Motong hugged Su Mo's waist and snuggled in his arms, her eyes looked a little blurred: "Dad, I love you very much, you are indeed strong, wise and far-sighted."

"But in the final analysis, you are just an ordinary human being."

When Su Mo heard this, what emerged in his eyes was not anger or sadness of being offended, but an unprecedented relief.

He pressed his face against Su Motong's little head and smiled with relief: "Motong, you are right, I am just an ordinary human being, everyone is the same."

"Just like just now downstairs, I was unwilling to share the supplies, and someone called me selfish. That's right, it's too true, I am a selfish person. Not only me, but most people are like this."

"Do absolutely selfless people exist? Yes, I have seen them."

"But they are only a very small number of people after all. No matter how lofty their ideals are and how much effort they have made, their individual lifespan is ultimately limited, and their own existence and ideal vision will wither with time."

"The development of civilization depends not on a very small number of people, but on the majority of people, so it is impossible for humans to escape the cycle of rise and fall by themselves."

"This has nothing to do with the system or technology, it is determined by the characteristics of the human species."

The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the snowflakes in the night sky fluttered with the cold wind, quickly covering every corner around, as if to drown the whole world in this endless white.

"Motong." Su Mo called.

He held his daughter tightly in his arms, his eyes reflecting the extremely cold snow, but they were so hot that they seemed to be burning.

"You have to give them a perfect world." (End of this chapter)