Hidden Yao Era

"Hahaha, it's okay, I just want to take a look, not to mention that the most prosperous place here is much better than Pluto. I walked around a lot of the streets of Mariner's Canyon Dungeon and saw a lot of interesting things. I talked to the civilians over there, but I always felt that I couldn't fully understand this society without being exposed to the lives of the upper class. "

"Well, but we don't have the best nobles here. Your view of society may not be too comprehensive. Castor reminded.

"Of course I know, but even if I come into contact with the nobles at the top, can I observe it comprehensively? No matter how I do it, it is actually a one-sided observation. Besides, aren't your aristocrats aristocrats? Your mall staff here have also been in contact with nobles from other places, and I should be able to learn some information from them. "

"Hahaha, haven't you noticed, there is a living nobleman in front of you. "

"Hee-hee, of course I do. But you are not the same as ordinary nobles, will ordinary nobles be so good to a modified person like me, will they pour so much affection into me?"

"So what you want to know about are the nobles who live under the norms of the general ideas of society, the nobles who live as a matter of course and have never questioned their own lives?"

"That's right, and I think from the cosmic age. The nobles who had disappeared from Earth suddenly resurrected on Mars, and the entire universe is now ruled by nobles. I wonder why an ancient hierarchy has taken hold in more advanced times, and what it is to survive and sustain it. "

"Well, I think it's authoritarianism and economic interests. The aristocracy controlled core economic interests by controlling core political power. In turn, the core economic interests are used to feed back political rights, so as to achieve a closed loop between power and core interests. "

"Theoretically, that's true. But have you ever thought that the premise of completing this closed loop is that the aristocracy has the ability to control the core power and interests all the time. For thousands of years, has the aristocracy been able to maintain this competitiveness? To survive under this cruel law of survival of the fittest? I don't think historically, the aristocratic family has been constantly renewing and absorbing. Another point I wonder is why this aristocracy has continued for so long, knowing that it is not conducive to fully exploiting human productivity and creativity by allowing such a small number of people to control core resources?"

"I can't answer your question. But don't you have a de facto aristocracy? The top of the Shenyin Sect are also nobles to some extent, right?"

"So we're going to fight them, and I think we're going to win, but I don't know the current state of other societies. So it is impossible to determine why the nobility lasted so long. The culture of the aristocracy is so attractive that countless non-aristocratic commoners do not want to overthrow it, but choose to join it?".

"I guess it's a kind of strong mentality."

"Mu Qiang, I want to become a nobleman, so I become strong? They join the ranks of nobles just to lie flat, right? Just to cling to a powerful symbol, so that they can be a useless weak person with peace of mind. "

"It's not so much a weak person as a waster, right?"

"Yes, a lot of people are willing to do this kind of waste. As you said, they are all willing to enter the 'dream pod', contribute spiritual nourishment and inspiration to the aristocracy and working commoners, and spend their lives in the illusory electronic world. They never thought about what they were supposed to do or what they liked to do. All the motivation for their actions is to lie flat and do nothing for the rest of their lives. "

"It's sad! But think about what I told you yesterday, if we create such a utopia, will our people become like this? What kind of people will we attract, probably also people who hate competition and hate this society. But the reason why they hate competition is not because they know that their will to life is in serious conflict with society, but because they just want to do nothing. What is the value of creating a society made up of such people?".

"It's about making everybody understand what they're living for. But in this society, everyone is guided by a force that oppresses and rejects the self by obeying this force. It's very difficult to pull them out of this power. "

"So you have to figure out what this power is. Castor suddenly realized.

"Aristocracy is only one of them, and there must be many things that oppress people and force them to live numb and miserable lives. There are also powerful forces that suppress us from living our own lives. "

"Well, it's a force that works together to suppress people and make people obey and live against their own will to live, right? But I'm afraid it's too difficult to figure it out, right? Can so many forces straighten it out?".

"So look from the top of the pyramid and look down on the whole human society. Aristocracy is the foundation of this spire. After Sonia finished speaking, Castor seemed to have a huge picture of human class in front of his eyes.

Casto then said, "Then let's go, to the city of Banliu in the plains of Eleucion." "

"Okay, you lead the way. Sonia then got into Casto's car. The multi-habitat vehicle flew over the wetland junction of Lake Utopia and the Eleucian Plain, and the silver-gray buildings in the distance gradually revealed in front of them, and the high-rise Banliu City had the solemn air of a medieval castle. Sonia looked at the facades and décor of each building, and she said to Castor, "The architecture here feels a little more modest than the buildings in Mariner Valley. "

"Yes, our aristocracy here did not want to be aesthetically inferior, so they pursued a simple and solemn aesthetic and applied it to architecture. "

"Hahaha, it's very smart, since the flowers can't play with them, let's find another way. "

"Behind this is also the need for self-esteem. After all, we are actually inferior to them. Six hundred years ago, it was filled with colorful and bizarre aesthetics, and was later ridiculed by the high aristocrats and media on Mars. In the past few hundred years, the aesthetic has returned to practicality and solemnity. "

"Hahaha, do they really like this aesthetic?".

"I don't think so, they still love the bright and intense colors and decorations. After all, the boring agricultural life needs a little warm atmosphere, and the bright flowers and fruits are the most natural beauty we can come into contact with. "

"There's nothing wrong with pursuing that. The strong aesthetic can also be very high-end. The high-ranking nobles denounce the strong aesthetic as low-level, and I am afraid that there are also elements to suppress you. Even if you are a nobleman, you will be imperceptibly suppressed by other nobles. It's really sad that I can't truly implement the aesthetics that belong to my own will to live, and even I am alienated by the authority of public opinion, and I unconsciously alienate my own aesthetics. "

"Yes, the high nobility is constantly creating new fashion elements, and we seem to be constantly catching up, but we can't always catch up. "

"It's like the high-ranking aristocrats are on a fashionable train, while the others don't have the power to get on it. They can only run to the platform when the train arrives, and when the train leaves, they can only stand on the platform and wait for the next destination of the train. Then run to the next platform, and the cycle repeats. "

"Hahaha, that's right, I've been getting more and more disgusted with these fashionable things lately. Casto finished and took Sonia out of the car.

Sonia disagrees with Casto's point of view: "There is no need to be averse to fashion, as long as the trendy clothes meet your own aesthetics and have the designer's own ideas and originality, I think it's good." It's just that there's no need to follow others to pursue any fashion. Throughout the ages, beautiful things can be appreciated, and they can all be used as aesthetic elements of our own lives. It doesn't have to be the latest, and it doesn't have to be to exclude them. "

"Well, but I just don't like that lately. Those novelty clothes, I don't think they're interesting lately. "

"Then take me around, and I'll see why you think they're boring. I also want to see what your latest clothes look like. Casto nodded, and led Sonia to the Athabasca Valley Commercial Center in Banliu City.