Chapter 2386 Spread
Ogawa Tsuyoshi and Ishigami Senku are in opposition because they have different views on whether to save all humans.
At the beginning, because Shishio Tsukasa disagreed with Ishigami Senku's approach, Ishigami Senku directly turned against Shishio Tsukasa. Unexpectedly, Ogawa Tsuyoshi also disagreed and hoped that Ishigami Senku would remain humble and respectful.
Ogawa Tsuyoshi has a good reason not to resurrect everyone: "Because they know too much. Once the number of people in the old world exceeds 10,000, you can't control them at all. Ishigami Senku now rules over only a hundred people, but have you ever thought about how to control them from going to war for resources when the number exceeds the upper limit? The fact is that you can't control it at all."
Although Ishigami Senku is confident that science can face any challenge, it is indeed impossible to use technology to solve the unpredictable human heart.
"You are different from Shishio Tsukasa. He hates the old man, but the deeper thing you hate is human nature." Ishigami Senku is helpless.
Ogawa Gang said: "The reason why there is no war in the 21st century is because of nuclear bombs, not because humans have really become kind. In fact, wars have never stopped in most areas. Population conflicts, resource conflicts, land conflicts, ethnic conflicts, these messy conflicts can all become excuses for war." "Today, without nuclear bombs, there is only one way to avoid war, and it is also the only way summed up by major civilizations, that is, to establish an education system that can be promoted. It doesn't matter what the ideology is. What matters is that more people believe it. In the face of the diverse residents of the 21st century, the cost of spreading this unified education system is too high. Even if only you, Dashu, and Shishi Wangsi were resurrected at the beginning, there are only three people with three ideas. Do you think that resurrecting tens of thousands of people in the old world can make them united?"
Ishigami Senku was silent, and after a long time, he said: "I can't do it." He knew that even science could not unify the people of the 21st century, let alone living in this Stone Age.
"That's right, no one can do it, so we should give up high costs and choose low costs. Only a small number of capable tools will be resurrected, and the main civilization will still be based on primitive people." Xiaochuan Gang said: "The technology we have mastered is enough to convince primitive people, and then we can design a scientific education system, so that primitive people can have a unified ideology."
Ogawa Gang said before that the difficulty of promoting ideology has nothing to do with whether the ideology is brutal or not, but only with the cost and the degree of promotion.
The Qin Dynasty was scolded by later generations for two thousand years, but in fact it has nothing to do with whether the Qin law is strict or not. The reason why Qin law was scolded is that the cost of promoting Qin law is too high. At that time, Qin ruled the country according to law, and the entire education system relied on officials. The owner of the unearthed bamboo slips from the Qin Tomb in Shuihudi, 'Xi', was such a grassroots official. His bamboo slips are enough to show that Qin law is not as harsh as imagined, that is, there are more things to manage, less human touch and flexibility.
But compared with religious books such as the Bible, it is actually much better.
As long as Qin law is promoted in the hands of officials, the Qin Dynasty can truly achieve unification. Unfortunately, the diverse nobles of the six countries obviously would not accept it, so they demonized the Qin law, so the cost of promoting the Qin law became very high and the speed became slower. As a result, the Qin Dynasty finally perished and the Qin law was not fully promoted. It was not until the Han Dynasty added some Confucian ethical content that the final promotion was completed, so there was the first truly unified country. The Han Dynasty promoted the ideology completely throughout the country for the first time. The reason why Confucianists have been the mainstream for the next two thousand years is because Confucianists paid the cost of promotion during the Han Dynasty. The next two thousand years were like eating up the mountain and eating the capital of the Han Dynasty.
The tasks of Qin officials, priests, Confucian scholars, and monks were the same, which was to promote an ideology that was not even official. For example, during the Roman period, priests only spread ideology among the people. In the end, when the Roman officials saw that the people believed in it, they directly took the folk ideology as the official ideology, saving a lot of costs for the officials. This cost was basically borne by Jesus and believers. Jesus paid a small life but did not recover any profits.
Promoting ideology will cost a huge amount of money, even the cost of life, but as long as the promotion is completed, you can collect money with peace of mind, anyway, you can count the money until your hands cramp. And this cost can be paid by the government or by non-governmental groups, but no matter who pays, the ultimate goal must be to get back the money.
"So now we also have to choose whether we customize a new ideology or use the original ideology of primitive people, and then build an education system and communication system with this ideology as the core. We can imitate the ancient bureaucratic system or religious system to establish rules for writing, management, communication, etc." Ogawa Gang said: "In the 21st century, ideology has become diversified and out of control, but if we start over, we can have only a single ideology. As long as everyone has the same ideas and believes in the same things, whether it is science or gods, whether it is technology or superstition, the important thing is to believe in the same things, then the war can be postponed as much as possible."
Ogawa Gang's words are also science, social science. However, this is obviously beyond the scope of Ishigami Senku's cognition. The science in his mind is the technology of going to heaven and earth and expanding the field of human cognition, rather than how to manage the world and ease conflicts.
However, Ogawa Gang also explained it as clearly as possible, letting Ishigami Senku know that science is not only visible, but also invisible.
What Ogawa Gang said about science in society is absolutely correct. The best way to achieve long-term stability is to establish an education and promotion system and choose an ideology to promote it through the system.
As for what this ideology is, it is not important. What is important is that it can be promoted and the cost should be low.
"If that's the case, of course, we should promote science." Da Mu Da Shu was almost confused, but he felt that if he had to promote something, it would naturally be to promote science, because this is what his friend firmly believes in.
The cost of promoting science is very high. It takes a lot of energy to make everyone understand "because so, scientific reason".
The lowest cost is undoubtedly religion, because you only need to teach believers what to believe, not why. Because once you have to explain the questions raised by believers, the cost will be very high.
After all, the level of priests is uneven. A few priests can explain why, but more priests explain more and more flaws, so the best way is to unify and not explain, and do not allow believers to ask why.
The reason why the eight-part essay system appeared in the Central Plains was actually because of cost issues. The eight-part essay system stipulated various formats, so the cost of learning and grading was greatly reduced, which means the cost of promotion was reduced. Having a unified standard is better than having different tastes.
Of course, there is one thing that Xiaochuan Gang also needs to explain: "Any ideology is advanced when it is promoted, but when the promotion is completed and the cost begins to be recovered, it will become backward. Religion or law cannot escape this law. All we can do is to criticize the current ills and keep pace with the times."