Chapter 1777
How high is the level of civilization, you cannot look at the appearance alone. In the time and space before Ying Yi crossed over, many people tended to equate the level of technological development with the level of civilization, which is wrong.
Wen, generally speaking, can be regarded as culture. And Ming is wisdom. Everything external, such as technology, is an extension of wisdom on the material level.
And wisdom is not limited to material things. People say that all things are knowledgeable, and that human feelings are refined. This is culture, but also wisdom.
The moral and spiritual level is also a part of civilization, or the most important part.
In Ying Yi's view, the level of civilization in the time and space before crossing over may not be much higher than that in that time and space hundreds of years ago. External, material, is developed, but internal, spiritual, is not.
And the inner, spiritual, not to say that all people become a Saint mother, civilization will be higher. Whether it is love, hatred, or hatred, they are all part of human nature and part of civilization. If you remove them, human nature will not be complete, humanity will not be complete, and civilization will not be a civilization.
War, killing, too. They are also a part of civilization, an indispensable experience for the advancement and development of a civilization, and a driving force.
The humane mortal world is colorful. It is with them that it is colorful. Without them, there would be stagnant waters.
The Origin Qi civilization of the Great Xia Empire, in its 1,000 years of development, expansion and war, are just a few of them.
The satisfaction of people's needs on the material level, to the prosperity and development of the spiritual and cultural levels, is no less than expansion and war.
In the past 1,000 years, with the establishment and development of new core ideas, at the cultural level, the early retro-style gradually returned to the Han and Tang Dynasties, and then on this basis, based on the material of the Origin Qi civilization Features, in the soil of various Xia thousands of years of ancient civilization, the culture and ideas that belong to the characteristics of the Great Xia era were further born.
There is never peace within, there is strife, there is confrontation, and there is sin. But whether it's fighting, confrontation, or sin, as long as it's orderly, limited, and controllable, it's all acceptable.
Unless the seven emotions and six desires of man are obliterated, strife, confrontation and sin will never go away. It will only become more controllable and orderly with the improvement of the level of clarity of the dive symbol.
There is one word to describe it, and that is 'submission'.
In an individual, such as cultivating a daoist priest, one has to subdue one's own heart—how can it be considered subdued? Self-control. People can control their uncontrollable desires, know what is too much and what is not too much, then it is almost the same.
If everyone can do this, the morality is even higher.
Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith are not used to obliterate the human nature, but a means to subdue the deepest nature of the human mind.
To obliterate is to obliterate, and to surrender is to surrender.
Once it has been obliterated, it will cease to exist, and once it has been subdued, it will still exist and be controllable.
So it's the mean.
That is to subdue the uncontrollable and achieve the controllable.
For example, war, people are opposed to war, but war is an indispensable part of the development of civilization. To exclude all wars is actually against the healthy development of humanity.
So it must be controllable - what stage can war and when is truce, this is controllable. It's not like hitting the head with a slap, and retreating with a shrinking egg.
Anything is too much.
Goodness is a good thing, but kindness, regardless of right or wrong, regardless of the reason, is sanctimonious bitch, and it is too much.
Order, this thing, is the foundation of humane existence. In civilization itself, order represents peace. In Heaven and Earth, order is the smoothness of five elements and the balance of yin and yang.
In exchange, it is the same in civilization itself. To balance yin and yang. Obliterating everything that is uncontrollable does not exist. Where there is good there is evil, where there is sin there is merit. As long as it can maintain a moderate balance between the two and meet the requirements of order, then it is right.
Divides Heavenly Dao into two parts, one non-human and one human. Inhumans, as big as the world, stars, and as small as a speck of dust, they have no seven emotions and six desires, and everything is passive. And people, there are seven emotions and six desires, people are active. If Heaven and Earth are yin, people are yang, which is also a reflection of the balance of yin and yang in Heaven and Earth.
The principle of yin and yang can be as big as it is, covering the whole world. It can also be small and subtle, reflected in any one person.
Between Heaven and Earth, civilization itself must abide by the fundamental principles of Heaven and Earth.
What heaven defying ah, oh god, it's all bullshit, it's a two-match.
It is a part of Heaven and Earth itself, and heaven defying is self-defying.
In myths and legends, it is often said that Heavenly Dao is irreversible, which is the truth.
Man conquers heaven, not heaven defying. It's just the yin-yang cycle formed by 'people' and Heaven and Earth. In a small corner, yang overwhelms yin. But in the invisible corners, Heaven and Earth do not know how many places are pressing people. All the time, a relative balance is maintained.
If civilizations die, civilizations must be born or grow, and if stars are destroyed, stars must be born. One dimension universe was wiped out by the void storm, but in the void, also countless new dimension universes were conceived or born.
Heaven and Earth have their own reasons, and the ultimate goal of civilization's existence is to actively control the passive, so that civilization can rationalize Heaven and Earth.
Or the birth of every cosmic level contains a kind of expectation. I look forward to her nurturing a civilization that can run the universe in a more orderly and rational manner.
People say that rules are made to be broken. And the rules of Heaven and Earth itself, Heaven and Earth cannot break because they have no initiative, so there are people. Heaven and Earth require human initiative to achieve goals beyond oneself.
Yes, yin and yang are supreme truth. Primal Chaos Universe should also follow this principle to operate, birth, development, growth, glory, and finally demise, again and again.
Maybe the universe itself wants to break this supreme truth. So He needed an initiative, and so He gave birth to man.
A civilization develops in accordance with the fundamental principles of the universe, and eventually grows to the extent that it can control the order of the Primal Chaos Universe, and through its initiative, forcibly, pulls the Primal Chaos Universe from an infinite loop go out.
Ying Yi, however, has a suspicion.
The great character in his mind, even with his current Heavenly Immortal realm, can't touch the roots. But there is no doubt that it must come from the deeper truth of Heaven and Earth. With the higher the realm, the deeper he understands the great character, and occasionally, when exploring its secrets, he will fall into a kind of realm.
He has already cleared the comprehension of the ultimate goal of humane civilization, but he has more doubts about whether humane civilization is truly detached after the ultimate goal is achieved.
The universe circulates in the balance of yin and yang. Can it really transcend the cycle of this balance? If an ant evolves into an adult, it can be said to be detached. But in reality it just entered a larger equilibrium cycle.
The Primal Chaos Universe, which contains an infinite number of cosmic dimensions, is not a part of a larger existence.
But in any case, progress and transcendence are the ultimate goals of initiative. Being proactive, whether intentional or not, is actually moving towards this goal.
As for what the scenery will be like at the end, Ying Yi can't guess.
What's more, the end of civilization, the end of the universe, such a proven thing, is still far away from today's Great Xia Empire.