Chapter 2980 Elasticity
People can’t trust each other, so there is a serious chain of suspicion between humans and aliens. Even Ultraman can’t trust each other. How can Ultraman from different galaxies and different universes trust each other? That is to worship the King of Ultra.
For example, Leo brothers of Leo, if there is no King of Ultra, then their contradictions with the Kingdom of Light will definitely not be easily resolved. King of Ultra is the altar of different Ultraman. If everyone worships together, they can become Ultraman who can trust each other.
Just like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in order to gain trust, even the overlord had to respect the Emperor of Zhou. In fact, it is to show one’s attitude, hoping that everyone will trust oneself and form an alliance with oneself.
Worshiping the Emperor of Zhou means recognizing Zhou Li. Worshiping the King of Ultra means recognizing the proposition of Ultraman to only protect and not interfere.
To gain the trust of others, or to trust others, you always have to do something. You can ‘know the horsepower of a horse after a long journey, and know the heart of a person after a long time’, but this takes a long time, and this method is only suitable for pragmatic civilization.
For religious civilization, worshipping gods is more effective than seeing people's hearts over time. And there are some urgent times, and some formalism is also needed.
Duran, Adad, and Cero also have to face the trust problem between humans and aliens. Humans protect their own interests, and aliens also protect their own interests. Both sides are right, and the result is to kill each other. Humans do not want to compete with aliens on the same stage, because if human resources flow to powerful aliens, there is no guarantee that aliens will give back to humans. Similarly, aliens do not believe that humans will help aliens after they have mastered resources.
"So now we have to build an altar that accommodates humans and aliens, so that humans and aliens can worship and gain trust." Duran said that humans and aliens now need an altar and need to trust each other.
"How to build it?"
"Of course, it is a wonder with rituals." Duran said seriously. He thought of the emperor in "Warhammer 40k". Loyalty is not absolute, which means absolute disloyalty. Why are the humans in the human empire so loyal? Isn't it because the emperor has mastered the wonders and rituals?
The emperor himself is a wonder, so how can he not worship?
In fact, it was not just Duran who was trying to build an altar at this time. In the troubled times, altars were rising up in large numbers, and they were becoming more and more extreme.
Many people have launched extreme slogans of protecting humans or killing all aliens. They select those who believe in this slogan. As long as they believe in this slogan, they are allies, and those who do not believe are enemies.
In fact, the methods of altars and liars are similar. They all cast a wide net and screen all living beings. Those who accept this set of rules are friends, and those who do not accept it are enemies.
Whether it is a small group or a large civilization, it is to unite some people in this way. So when someone makes an extreme statement, don't laugh at it, because this is the rally call, which is used to screen people. The mockers are definitely not the people he needs, but those who accept extreme statements are.
Everyone knows that it is impossible to unite everyone, and it is enough to unite a small part.
In this troubled time, if you want to achieve something, you must build an altar. It's just that most people don't have Duran's resources. What they can use is extreme slogans and extreme behaviors to attract members to join, and slowly grow bigger and stronger.
Of course, extreme slogans still have limitations, that is, you are extreme, I am more extreme than you, and the boundaries of this are too obvious.
There are also high-end altars, which are to pretend to be gods and ghosts, and use the mouths of ghosts and gods to convey orders. Don't use extreme slogans, use a flexible way to attract people, such as hiding books in the belly of fish and howling wild foxes at night, this method is very flexible.
If it is an extreme slogan, it is found that it cannot be done, then the group will be dispersed. If it is pretending to be gods and ghosts, and the set goals cannot be achieved, you can continue to fool with the mouths of gods and ghosts.
Of course, this is not only human beings, aliens are also building altars, they are also shouting "Eliminate human tyranny, the earth belongs to the parliament", and through this slogan, a group of aliens, even a few humans, are selected.
These altars are too rough, they can only attract a few people, not everyone. And a ritual system must be formulated, whoever violates the ritual system, everyone can punish him.
"Let's put the legendary four O in the altar first." Duran said that there are four legendary Ultraman in his altar.
"Isn't it too much? What if there are disagreements?" Adad said that putting four Ultramen in the altar is too much, and one is enough.
"The four legendary Ultramen are just the east, south, west and north, and the highest level in the middle is the supreme universe." Tao, God, Brahma, anyway, it is an unspeakable supreme rule.
Everyone said that it is still the same old routine, and something that no one can explain must be placed on top of everything.
That's right, if there is a supreme principle that can be explained clearly, then whoever has the right to interpret this supreme principle will dominate everything. How to attract newcomers?
So you have to make something ambiguous. If anyone can explain it, it means that no one can explain it. In short, you can't let one party firmly grasp the right to interpret.
Because society is pluralistic, if one party has absolute right to interpret, it will become monistic, and there will be no change. The reason why Mohism cannot be promoted is that Mohism's interpretation is too simplistic and cannot be explained from two perspectives at the same time.
The reason why Taoism and Confucianism can flourish is that there are different interpretations from different perspectives, so that different people can choose what they need, and everyone will take the initiative to learn.
The Mohist school advocates universal love, non-aggression, and frugality. People who like Mohism naturally support it very much, but people who do not agree with it cannot get other explanations from Mohism. Mohism locks the right to interpretation. If there is no explanation that everyone can explain, it means there is no explanation.
In simple terms, it is inflexible. Rigidity is easy to break, and most people cannot be rigid to the end. People have different views on the same things at different ages. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism can satisfy different age groups, but Mohism cannot. It is rigid to the end. Some people may like Mohism when they are young, but they don’t like it when they are old, because Mohism cannot provide flexibility.
So Duran also has to design a flexible content, that is, the way of the universe. The legendary four Os are real, lacking flexibility, and the will of the universe can be interpreted at will.
"When you see a certain explanation that is beneficial to you, everyone will accept this altar. If a theory without flexibility is placed there coldly, everyone will only be intimidated, alienated, and unwilling to come in." Duran said that everyone likes explanations that are beneficial to themselves. This is the role of flexibility. Different positions can see content that is beneficial to themselves. Doesn’t this unite everyone?
Even the legalists are divided into two factions: the legal and the illegal. The illegal faction is like the earthlings and aliens, who only protect their own interests and not the interests of outsiders. The illegal faction does not consider the facts when establishing the laws, but only considers whether it is the object of protection.
The legalists are not against people, but are very rational. Any crime must be dealt with, but this is easy to kill themselves. The reason is also very simple. There will definitely be more and more laws and regulations. In the end, law-abiding people are restricted everywhere, and lawbreakers are unscrupulous. Law-abiding people are defeated by law-breaking.
Therefore, even the legalists have to be divided into the legal and the illegal factions, and the two are reconciled to provide flexibility.
Flexibility is a necessary attribute of the altar. If everyone can explain it, it is equivalent to no explanation. This is the role of the way of the universe. If everyone can get an explanation from their own favorable perspective, then everyone is willing to join the altar.