Chapter 2758: Backsliding

Everyone has a different view on the same thing. Duran, as a nitpicker, is naturally the kind of person that everyone hates the most. People finally came up with a solution to the problem, but Duran denied it as soon as he opened his mouth.

How can sacrificing a person who has completed evolution to save the world be the same as primitive people killing prisoners of war to pray for rain? That is different.

But it is difficult to say clearly what the difference is. Because the two situations are too similar, facing unknown changes, humans use some inexplicable means to interfere, hoping that the changes will develop in the direction they expect. And the greatest means of humans is sacrifice, by sacrificing the lives of their own kind to do their best.

In the final analysis, it is because humans lack control over nature.

The strange woman certainly believes that sacrificing a person who has completed evolution can change the world, and she even sacrifices herself.

"Let's do this, postpone it for a few years as I said before. Let Agni and the high priest develop feelings for a while, and then you and Agni will go to war and see who will win. Bet on the future of the high priest and fight fiercely. If you win, you will sacrifice her. If Agni wins, then we will take another way out." Duran said that this is an interesting arrangement.

The female director couldn't agree more, because Duran's idea was really interesting and dramatic.

"Do you think I'm air?" The high priest said that he was also a person and had his own ideas. How could he be arranged properly? Why can't I choose my own life? In the past, because of my father's instructions, I became the manager of the city-state, and I had to spread lies and do many things against my will. Now the city-state is gradually occupied by Duran. I can finally relax, but I am trapped by a ridiculous bet. Who wants to develop feelings with the enemies of the city-state? Who wants to sacrifice himself to save the world?

In the original work, the high priest accepted the sacrifice plan because of the blow of the destruction of the city-state, but the first sacrifice was unsuccessful. Although the temperature rose a little, she also lost her memory. During the ten years of amnesia, she was taken care of by Agni as a sister, and the two developed a subtle relationship.

Then came the second sacrifice, which was successful. People who have completed their evolution can indeed turn into big trees, stretching out into the universe to absorb energy from other planets. However, they cannot make the entire earth warmer, only a part of the area can be warmed up. So wars broke out constantly in order to compete for the warmer areas.

Warming areas can grow food and farm, so they are regarded as treasures.

However, Duran would say that this is simply a step backward. It is not easy for humans to obtain resources without relying on the land, but after the end of the world, humans are living more and more backward. Don't go back to farming for the blessing? Is there something wrong with the brain?

This has to be said that this is the prejudice of the author of the work. The beautiful world in his mind is not out of touch with reality. In the author's mind, pastoral idyll is a beautiful life. Just like Tao Yuanming thought that the Peach Blossom Spring was isolated from the world, and the sound of chickens and dogs was beautiful. Just like Lao Tzu thought that a small country with few people who could not communicate with each other until they died was beautiful.

Is it really beautiful? They themselves may not know it, but the social environment in which the authors are located does not satisfy them. They all know that after overthrowing the existing society, there must be a new society. So the authors will create a fantasy society that can satisfy them, which is basically a world where everyone has land to plant and work to get something.

Duran said that this is a step backward, and the development of the world of "Flame Fist" is a step backward. They have already separated from the land to survive, and finally go back to farming?

However, it is indeed difficult to design an ideal world out of thin air. It is easier to find the ideal world that people in all dynasties have longed for from history. What the ancients hoped for most was naturally a small peasant society where everyone had land to plant and everyone could eat and wear warm clothes. When industrial civilization began, the ideal world was to work eight hours a day, and the rest of the time was used to study and improve themselves. Everyone had to work in exchange for the industrial products they needed. The industrial utopia still has a considerable small peasant mentality.

Later, because of the emergence of the former Soviet Union, there was an eight-hour workday and Labor Day, but it was still far away from the industrial utopia.

In short, Duran thought this was a step backward, so he hoped that Agni could win: "Anyway, it's decided, Agni, starting today, you, the high priest, and the female director must accept my education, and you can't be so muddleheaded anymore." "As for you, you weird woman, you can promote your set of sacrificial theories as you like, the gate of the city-state is always open to you. You are welcome to take Agni's life and the freedom of the high priest in the process."

Uh.

Everyone said that Duran was really overbearing. Is it decided like this?

"I also want to learn." Dema stood up and said, "I want to know why we have become like this, and how we should correct it."

Agni glared at Dema, he did not accept the existence of a guy like Dema.

Duran thought that Dema and Agni had no basis for an alliance, and of course Agni and the high priest had no basis for an alliance. After all, although Dema was an executor, the high priest was an educator and the one who gave orders.

Although Dema's original order was to capture people, he temporarily changed it to annihilation. But the reason why he did it was because of the teaching of the high priest, so he believed that cannibalism was a heinous crime.

Agni could not accept that he and his enemy sat together to study.

The female director laughed happily. Although this Dema was very decadent, to some extent, this villain was more annoying than the traditional villain. Although the traditional villain was arrogant and vicious, he would be killed by the protagonist in the end, so the audience could accept the villain's badness. But Dema was very decadent and wanted to change. He kept reflecting. He clearly made Agni angry, but if Agni fought back, it seemed that Agni was wrong. He was obviously very annoying but couldn't show it. Don't you think it's annoying?

So these two people have no basis for alliance. Interests, morality, and fear are three common bases for alliance.

For elites, interest groups, countries, etc., interests are always the best basis for alliance. It can be said that there are only eternal interests and no eternal friends.

Ordinary people and ordinary people, different countries, different regions, different civilizations, different races, different genders, different ages, basically have morality, that is, the same values ​​as the basis for alliance, because ordinary people can't offer so many interests to form an alliance. People who receive the same moral education or believe in the same religion are more likely to form an alliance. As for people from different regions, it depends on their performance in the family. Filial sons form alliances with filial sons, and loving fathers form alliances with loving fathers. This is also the reason why Confucianism has been so prosperous, because Confucianism is a moral requirement for family blood. And this requirement can be used as the basis for alliances between strangers.

For those lawless lunatics who are outside the social rules, fear is the best way to form alliances. Whoever is more powerful and more terrifying is the boss and can dominate others.

Generally speaking, the three alliance bases exist at the same time and are used interchangeably in society. There are various alliances between fathers and sons, friends, superiors and subordinates, strangers, individuals and groups, and groups and groups.

Agni and Dema do not have the same values, of course, no common interests, and cannot be dominated by fear, so they can never be friends, they are pure enemies.

But it doesn't matter. If they don't become friends, they will exist as enemies to see who will be stronger in the end. It is impossible for a person to have only friends and no enemies, especially someone like Agni who shoulders the responsibility of a savior.

"Of course, no problem, we can learn together." Duran said that he could educate Agni and Dema at the same time.