Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 1016 Midrash
At this moment, 300 years have passed. The speech of the dead 300 years ago has long been unnecessary.

What the Six Dragons Sect needs is for these people to recognize the identity of "human beings" and to be proud of "progress".

It is an absolute belief in "the future will be better".

"The future should be better, and if it doesn't get better, something must be wrong."

This is a "faith".

A man named Hayek once said: "History is a history of inflation. Only after the rise of the modern industrial system, under the gold standard, did there have a history of constant prices on a 200-year scale (1714-1914 in Britain, America, 1749-1939).” Under the gold standard, the government abdicated the decision to issue currency.In Hayek's view, unless the government gives up this power, there will be a natural tendency to issue money excessively.Modern people attribute moderate inflation to independent banks and the system behind them, and regard autocratic dynasties as habitual offenders who rely on inflation to plunder people's wealth.

But when Xiang Shan learned about this passage, the person who told him this point of view also told him that this point of view only applies to a very narrow historical time period.

In fact, throughout history, inflation in the feudal era was astonishingly low for moderns.

Unless the country has been corrupted to a certain extent, or the emperor has a huge defect in intelligence and cognition, otherwise, the feudal dynasty will not start lightly.Once the indiscriminate casting is activated, the world will fall into turmoil.

Outside of such "special periods", in most normal times, the stability of feudal society was higher than that of capitalist times.

For modern society, an inflation rate of 5.00% is still in the "normal" category, and even a slightly lower inflation rate can be regarded as "moderate".But if the inflation rate is lower than [-]%, it will cause people to worry about the speed of social development.

What is the concept of an inflation rate of 5.00%?This means that one's personal continuation, after ten years of storage, has almost halved its purchasing power.

But for modern people, this is still "normal" and "reasonable".

The feudal era was completely different.For a truly stable feudal dynasty, an inflation rate of more than one percent is considered terrifying.Although ancient Rome was notorious for its inflation in the third century, on a longer historical scale, this was only an extremely accidental episode.From around 150 B.C. to A.D. 50, the price of wheat in ancient Rome increased by a measly 50 percent.In terms of price stability, the centuries before the implementation of the gold standard in Britain were no less than the 200 years after the gold standard.During the 1200 years from 1700 to 500, except for the 16% annual average increase in wheat prices in the 1.5th century, the price change in other centuries was almost zero.In the more than 300-year history of the Song Dynasty, the weight and fineness of the one- and two-wen copper coins, which were the main body of circulation, were extremely stable.Although Hou Jin was famous for two excessive castings at the end of the dynasty, the price of grain only increased by 19 times in the 200 years from the founding of the country to the middle of the 3.5th century, which is equivalent to an average annual inflation of 0.6%.

Some people think that this is precisely because of the fundamental difference in "cognition".

For people in the feudal era, "tomorrow" is a repetition of "today", and "future" is a repetition of "now". The world has never changed, and great changes have been completed as early as in mythology.The so-called "there is nothing new under the sun" comes from this.

Human beings in the feudal era seldom took out loans willingly.When the poor are about to die, they will borrow a sum of money to continue their lives. This is the case for the so-called "emergency aid".It is rare to hear of rich people getting loans.They only have a tradition of lending money.And the behavior of "investment" is even rarer.

This is commonplace for modern people.

Because, after entering the capitalist society, the rapid development of science and technology and the improvement of productivity have made everyone have a consensus-"tomorrow will be better than today".

Because "tomorrow will be better than today", some human beings will bear huge debts today for greater benefits tomorrow.

There is a fundamental cognitive gap between humans in the capitalist era and the feudal era.

What's even better is that human's imagination of the future, in turn, guides the development of society.

It is precisely because everyone feels that "the future will be better than the present", so some people are willing to invest resources in technological research and development.Because they believe that the money invested in research and development will actually move the world forward and make themselves better off.

Well, so the belief that "the future will be better" is not entirely false.

Following the guidance of "future imagination", borrow "possible resources in the future" in advance to influence "now"...

Well, in the eyes of the ancients, this must be terrible magic.

However, there is still a limit to "borrowing the power of the future".But unfortunately, the speed of progress has not kept up with the overdraft...

In other words, if the speed of "progress" is not as fast as the "overdraft man" expected...

Repayment and liquidation of consideration will occur in time.

This is a general law of human society.

If the common imagination of "a better future" is shattered, the entire modern social order that was established will collapse.

If it is not for the thought of "it will be better", why do people have to endure 5.00% inflation rate?

What the leader of the Six Dragons Sect needs most now is to strengthen this belief.

After all, the future of mankind is something that mankind constructs itself.Human imagination is the blueprint for building the future.

If the support of the blueprint is insufficient, then ignore the details.

Let it really leave the world and become dogma.

Use the most brutal way to fill in the loopholes in logic.

——The future will be better, so why can't we feel it?

—Because you are not devout enough...

—Because there are sinners in the world, and sinners who prevent you from feeling it...

——Because of these sinners, we have lost forever the qualification to go to the previous "future paradise"...

—and now...

"Let's go to Xinghai." The leader of the six dragons called to the sky.

"Let's go to Xinghai!" All the congregation echoed the movement of the leader and made a unified cry.

This is the last step of consciousness.In the hall, the figures disappeared one after another, and only a few people walked towards the leader.They spontaneously lined up according to their positions, waiting for the leader to be interviewed in turn.

This is the second half of the entire scientific ritual.

There will always be some people who will shake the teachings.

After all, the world is not always getting better, and the career of an organization or a party is not always smooth—this is real, and everyone can intuitively feel it.

It was the same in the old society.Capitalism relies on the common imagination of "the future will be better" to obtain the extraordinary power of "overdrafting the future". The profit-seeking nature of capital will allow society to use this ability.But once the development is frustrated, the illusion will dissipate like a bubble, and a crisis will be born as a result.

History has proven time and again that capitalism has a strong propensity to self-destruct.

But, just twist and change the logic a bit...

In the eyes of the individual, the world will immediately be different.

That's right, Xiang Shan doesn't need to rationally convince everyone who is shaken in his heart.He only needs to fully mobilize the emotions of the other party on this occasion with a strong religious atmosphere to make them more religious.

The leader himself jokingly called this behavior "speaking the scriptures."In order to avoid duplication of work, he also blurred the memory of the participants, and then supported an independent blockchain - externally code-named "Midrash" (this word originally meant the Jewish annotations, adages, and proverbs on the Old Testament. , parables, folktales, legends, sermons.)
Due to the existence of this part of external memory, this work is getting easier and easier.

However, this time, Xiang Shan saw something unexpected.

"Protect the Dharma?" The leader was a little surprised, "You also came to ask the truth?"

(End of this chapter)