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△ 197｜Apocalypse
When I was washing the dishes after dinner, I suddenly had this strange inspiration – it was still about the end of the day, but there was an angle that I had never thought of, which made the feeling of the end of the day even more bleak.
This apocalypse is not just caused by natural disasters, I think it is more likely that the apocalypse is man-made, such as nuclear war, or human beings are involved in endless political struggles, which will eventually lead human civilization to the end of boiling frogs in warm water And go. Because people believe that the “worst end” won’t happen, they compromise with those “incidents” time and time again, thinking how close “it” can get to that “worst end”, as long as they are not Equivalent, then there is still a chance to be redeemed.
In terms of writing, I actually have a lot of romantic ideas – for example, I always feel that I should leave something behind, which may be a documentary of the present, or a prophecy of the future in the past. , this kind of prophecy may come true, or the reality may be more cruel and absurd than these prophecies. If humanity experiences a demise, those who survive, how will they rebuild society, repeating the same mistakes? Or have they found a way to avoid the reincarnation of history? Or have they found the body of a god and disguised themselves as the god who once again controls the world? But the question is, can those pre-order things be left behind?
If all my creations are stored on the Internet, and the outbreak of war or the destruction of natural disasters, the servers that originally recorded the virtual world of human beings will be physically destroyed, and the data on the records will disappear. , not to mention that there are still clues that can be preserved. No matter how bad it is, the infrastructure is destroyed, and human beings have returned to the barren age where they needed to use the four elements to survive. The virtual world without the Internet is like a fairy tale in a parallel world, which is only left in the memory of future generations.
If it is a paper work, they are the most invincible existence of the four elements. Maybe some broken chapters and broken pages will be discovered by later generations, but because it is divorced from the most original integrity, the mystery hidden in it has turned into a crossword puzzle that can be interpreted in countless ways. Perhaps only those original civilizations, which seemed to be like another virtual ancient world like the online world, could still be left in the caves on the stone walls. However, in modern society, in order to inherit these civilizations, they have been excavated and preserved in museums. The civilization inherited in this most intuitive way seems to use the most fragile way to resist the “worst” “The end of mankind” – because the enemy of mankind is still the enemy after all, and these civilizations can be destroyed by simple instructions – not to mention those codes, orders, rules – as long as some people say a word, you can Redefine and deny them, make them non-existent and non-existent.
In the first draft of my own novel, “Secret Dreamland”, I set a bridge. They are criminals who want to be enemies of the whole society, against the social order and the law. They have found a way to destroy the social order – to destroy the original civilization of the society.
In the story, the whole world is set on an “impossible” rule, that is, the slowdown of the earth’s rotation, and the time law has changed from a rotation of 24 hours to a rotation of 25 hours. The change of this time law not only brings about physical problems, but also a kind of psychological destruction and reconstruction.
Initially, the mythological system, religious system, and even the existence of astrology and numerology divination in human society were all based on the 24-hour time rule. When the way of time calculation changes, people cannot “timely” re-calculate these pre-order myths and religions with new time rules, and they will naturally face collapse and disintegration. The basis of belief has become a concept of “nothingness” – the world in the past is 24 hours, which is like the Garden of Eden in the fairy tale, although it is extremely divine, it is an existence that no one can prove. But belief cannot collapse in an instant, it needs to be slowly stripped from those concepts of “nothingness”, but if this speed cannot keep up with the speed at which people forget and rediscover their beliefs, then they will gradually be removed from civilization. It belongs to the same existence as those fairy tales on the stone wall.
So these criminals have found a fundamental way to destroy social civilization – they plan to destroy the “time museum”, which stores the original concept of “nothingness”, that is, the 24-hour time rule of the original world. Just like the virtual symbols recorded on the network, the words recorded on the paper, or the totems carved on the stone walls, they can be easily destroyed regardless of whether they are real or false. Once the concept of “nothingness” of 24 hours is destroyed, it means that those things built on this old system will lose their final foundation and become things that people can only remember and inherit through their minds – but it will be Forgotten, tampered with, brainwashed, corrected, revolutionized, and murdered, until these contents are adjusted into a “correct civilization worthy of inheritance”.
This day may seem far away, but we can find lessons similar to “burning books and pitting Confucians”. And maybe it’s happening now – they’re deleted, they’re smeared, they’re defined as unviewable by “statutes”, white-on-blue rules become shackles for messengers, people don’t believe they’re being used in the first place. Falsified but now people feel they have been falsified whether it is true or not, it doesn’t need to speak but can be a mouthpiece, it is a mouthpiece but it can’t be breathed by a pair of hands, it speaks lies and suffers from crime, But the scary thing is that if it is telling the truth, it will also be mutilated and criticized. If it is painted on the fence, it represents a kind of political correctness. If it is made into a banner and paraded on the street, it is a kind of betrayal and rebellion. It loses its original meaning, it sometimes has to be an annotation of another homophone or a similar word, it is disassembled into characters, but it does not allow the use of symbols created by other civilizations, it forms a A smiley face but people know it stands for crying, it expresses an affirmation but people read the unacceptable helplessness from it, it will be smeared and changed one day – and then, it becomes it must, force, need to pass that The content that is regulated and sanctioned by the “nothingness” law should be read aloud and recited by everyone, otherwise, they will become sinners in the “nothingness” era.
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