Chapter 1657: Intercepting 70 Years

From when Simon casually mentioned the concept of "Three-Body Problem" when chatting with everyone in Australia, to Sylvia writing this story into a novel, and to the recent completion of the final script by Daenerys' screenwriter team, the whole idea, compared to Simon's past memories have changed beyond recognition.

In the new version, the heroine is named Angela Winston.

Angela, a deliberate name.

Angel, devil?

Angela Winston was born in World War I, experienced World War II, and then the long Cold War. She watched mankind almost destroy herself many times. As an astrophysicist, she participated in a secret alien detection project in the United States , Accidentally received a signal from the Trisolarans, and the story unfolded.

A brand new story, from Sylvia's perspective, the initial tone is the most politically correct topic in the world, peace.

However, with the appearance of Trisolarans and the publicity of news, almost all existing ethical orders in human society were destroyed, opening a special era that lasted for hundreds of years.

The script that has been completed, the first season is mainly based on the first novel of the past, the style is mainly suspenseful, and it tells the story of human society step by step uncovering the terrifying truth that the Trisolarans have penetrated deeply into all aspects of the earth world, the most exciting part of which is, Nature is still proton's lock on human's cutting-edge technology.

In addition, the setting of the three-body game was deleted and changed to a secret three-body problem research club.

After all, the West is the more popular club.

Beside the curtain wall of the shell villa with the golden sunset.

Hearing Sylvia's question, Simon shook his head and said, "Actually, in many cases, creators don't think too much when completing a story. The key is what the readers see, or what they want to see. "

Sylvia's new husband, Steve Aylworth, chimed in: "For a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets."

Simon nodded: "Yes."

Nancy Brill said, "I've read the first draft of Sylvia's novel, as well as the idea of ​​the follow-up story that I just talked about. Simon, I believe, what are you trying to express?"

"There are indeed a lot of things I have to say, from 'war and peace' to 'existence is nothingness'," Simon shrugged and said with a smile: "Even in the same plot, at different times, my personal thinking is already different, so , the problem is still with you, what do you want to see?"

No one answered, but Nancy chased after him: "So, Simon, you must have read the script recently, so what did you think of?"

Everyone looked over together again.

Simon thought for a while and said, "There is indeed one."

"Um?"

Simon said: "I've been thinking about utopia recently, and I've come to a rather pessimistic conclusion."

Headless.

Everyone looked puzzled.

Even Sylvia, who personally wrote the story, couldn't help being curious: "Simon, what do you mean?"

Simon felt the little guy on his lap struggling to return to his mother, so he had to hug him and hand it back to Nancy next to him. After sitting down again, he said: "Some random thoughts recently, just happen to be compatible with "The Three-Body Problem" to a certain extent, in short, I suddenly discovered that utopia is against human nature, or, more bluntly, utopia is against the survival nature of human beings as creatures, and we cannot demand that everyone be like As noble as a saint, the result of forcibly suppressing it will only be counterproductive."

The scene is full of smart people. When Simon said this, everyone couldn't help but fall into the association.

After a while, Janet said first, "It's really sad that an ideal that most people are pursuing is destined to be impossible."

Janet sighed with emotion, but her tone was not sad at all.

There are also some smiles.

Nancy said in a retorting tone: "Idealism is definitely not wrong. It represents our best expectations for the world as thinking humans. What is wrong is just a series of bad realities."

Sylvia was a little puzzled: "Simon, are we talking about "The Three-Body Problem", I don't understand what you are talking about?"

Simon said: "I don't understand either. I have thought too much in recent years, and I can't help but talk nonsense."

There was another burst of laughter.

After everyone laughed, Sylvia said again: "The problem is, Simon, it turns out that neither utopia nor dystopia is in line with our real society, is it?"

"Of course," Simon said: "So, I am very pessimistic about the future of this world, because our nature is always easy to drag one thing to an extreme, and it is difficult to maintain an intermediate state."

Steve said again: "Simon, I probably understand what you are worried about, but isn't our system doing a good job of preventing this society from going to extremes in any direction?"

"Our system..." Simon sighed a little, looked at the young man who was about the same age as him opposite, and said, "Steve, you have to know that people are always prone to fall into the illusion that they put what they have At a certain moment, a relatively beautiful moment, as eternity, thinking that the world will always be like this, but this is not the case.”

Steve Aylwards was puzzled for a moment.

Simon said: "In this way, according to the current average life expectancy of our human beings of 70 years, going back 70 years, from 1930 to 2000, is equivalent to a person's lifetime. Then, you recall, our world, during this period, experienced How many near-destruction bad

time. Or, you can arbitrarily intercept 70 years from the last one or two thousand years with clear human history records, and see how many turbulences and disasters have occurred during this period. "

No one else at the scene obviously thought about this issue.

After Simon's words fell, everyone couldn't help recalling together, and then inevitably suppressed a little smile.

really.

Let’s not talk about the more distant history, just talk about the seventy years from 1930 to 2000, if this is a person’s life, he or she will inevitably experience the Great Depression in the United States, the outbreak of World War II, the confrontation in the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The long Vietnam War, the oil crisis, stagflation in the 1980s, the Gulf War...

It was just one bad moment after another.

After a while, Sylvia still said: "Simon, I think that now is definitely different from before, the future...I mean, we have entered a new era, the future should be full of hope, isn't it? "

Simon took Janet's small hand beside him and rubbed it lightly in the palm of his hand, nodded slightly: "Maybe."