Chapter 216 Bad Things
Central, South Street.
This is the resource distribution center of the entire central government. Various coal, iron ore, gasoline and other industrial resources sent from other resource cities will be pulled here first, loaded and unloaded by workers, and finally distributed. Being sent to various research institutes or power plant refueling stations.
And here, the lowest group of people in the entire center are gathered.
The cabinet refers to these people as helpers, which does not recognize them as proletarians like laborers and farmers, but a group of ordinary central citizens who want to make some extra money in their spare time.
In fact, people who work in Nanjie do have central household registration status, but they do not have any place to live in the city.
The vast majority of these people are special admissions students who graduated from the college and were recruited by major laboratories because of their excellent performance. They worked hard to make money and were taken to the central government from their hometown. They were once laborers and farmers. family.
But as their only specially recruited graduates who could secure a stable life in the central government, something unexpected happened during the subsequent experiment.
Either death or serious illness, from being the mainstay of the family to becoming a burden overnight.
Many such families will eventually give up on treatment and abandon their children, who were once the pride of the family and have now become a family nightmare, in the middle and let them fend for themselves. Others will sell everything they can. Return to my hometown again.
There are also some people who are unwilling to watch their children die in such pain. These people want to stay in the central government and use the medical conditions here to treat their children, but the high costs of those hospitals make it difficult for them to afford it.
These people have no status, no jobs, and are not accepted by the city. In the end, they can only find the same hard work as before in South Street, struggling to make money to survive.
Four or five hours had passed after dark, and those central "helpers" who had worked hard all day just left their posts exhausted.
Most of these people have no fixed place to live, and basically all the money they earn every day is sent to the hospital. For convenience, they set up a shabby tent in a nearby park and spend night after night doing whatever they want. .
Only in the past few days, in order to strictly investigate the situation of immigrants without household registration staying in the central area, the upper levels of the cabinet have begun to inspect various places. This park is no longer allowed to live in "helpers". The entire park They all drove them away.
Now, these sweaty people can only lean against the wall of the largest warehouse on South Street and wait for the night's publicity to end before setting up tents to sleep.
People were so exhausted that they didn’t even have the strength to speak. They just sat in the corner. In the shadows, they didn’t know whether they were looking at the happy family of three taking an evening walk under the dim street lights, or thinking about tomorrow. Worried about medical expenses.
As the night gradually deepened and the helpers began to set up tents on the wall, two tall men, an old man and a young man wearing church priest robes, walked through the dim street lights and arrived here. A tent gathering place.
Many of the helpers who were setting up the tent knew the old priest whose robes were heavily patched and whose face was old but his back was straight and straight without any bend.
“You’re here again.”
"Thank you so much for last night! I haven't had such a good night's sleep or such a sweet dream for many days!"
"I heard today that such things are made by those noble people. The church spends a lot of money to enjoy it? Will it cause you trouble if you use it like this?"
Hearing the questions from the helpers, Li Wei also turned to look at Lao Le next to him. .
Lao Le just smiled and shook his head.
“Those people don’t spend money to buy, but donate money. The church will allocate part of the money they donate to use on you, so there is nothing to worry about.”
Such an answer brought smiles to the faces of the helpers, and their words became more relaxed. They kept expressing their gratitude to Lao Le, and at the same time, they all noticed the young priest standing next to him.
"Don't worry about him. He is a new member of the church and is temporarily following me as an intern."
Lao Le just said casually and had no intention of introducing Li Wei.
Soon, when the helpers set up the tent and got in and lay down, Lao Le clicked on the communicator with the web page open in his hand outside and played the melodious pure music on it.
Lao Le turned off the music and put away the communicator until everyone in the tent fell asleep.
"Those people in the center are all scared." He said calmly, "They are all scared. The church doesn't know what they are planning. Each of them seems to want to study the paradise thoroughly and feels that there must be some danger there. But in fact, this thing is that simple.”
Lao Le patted Li Wei on the shoulder and signaled that it was time for them to leave.
Li Wei took one last look at the people who had fallen asleep in the tent. He followed Lao Le's pace and asked doubtfully.
“So the paradise is actually a simple hypnotist, and its only function is to let everyone see their own desires?” “These so-called helpers basically all have the same dreams in the paradise. "Lao Le took Li Wei to the road where the street lights were lit, "In the dream, their family was not broken, they were reunited, and everyone lived together healthily. Is this their desire? ”
Levi shook his head.
“Hope is also a kind of desire. The word desire may be derogatory, but it has nothing to do with good or bad.”
“Do you think that when a person is born, his nature is bad or bad? Okay?" Lao Le suddenly asked.
He seemed to be quite free-spirited, chatting with Levi about whatever came to his mind.
The theory of evil nature or good nature is a topic that has been debated since ancient times. However, after the rise of a series of humanities sciences such as modern sociology, this issue is no longer necessary to debate.
Levi said.
“Good or evil nature is defined by people themselves, and man himself is a social creature and cannot exist apart from the group. Sociality is the expression of the consciousness of social animals, which makes society The survivability of internal individuals far exceeds the survivability of individuals separated from society, and it also includes characteristics such as altruism, collaboration, dependence, and more advanced consciousness."
"These characteristics cannot be said. Good and bad are only defined by other individuals themselves, and those that are generally beneficial to others are often defined as good, while those that harm others and only benefit oneself are defined as bad. These bases will change according to the development of society. Make a change."
Li Wei looked into Lao Le's eyes.
“Therefore, there is never a standard answer to judge whether a newborn individual is good or bad, but it must be analyzed from the social level.”
Lao Le looked at him with a strange look.
"Have you read books about philosophy or sociology before?"
Levi shrugged, not caring about what he had exposed.
"You're not going to report me and let the people from the Criminal Department come to arrest me, are you? These are banned books prohibited by the central government's order."
Lao Le laughed.
"The more they fear something, the more they prohibit it. You are right, people are social, so when most people in the world have problems, the problem actually does not lie with the individual, but with the entire society. There is something wrong with everything.”
“But few people living in society can realize that the real problem is with this society. Those people who are superior will think that this is how it should be. , they deserve their enjoyment, but the mediocre people at the bottom have no knowledge and no energy to think because of the huge labor. Many people only feel that their lives have become like this because they are not enough. Hard work is not enough to make progress.”
Lao Le took Li Wei away from South Street. They came to the largest hospital staff apartment near South Street. When they walked through, almost every building was surrounded by people. In front of the apartment, you can vaguely hear the melodious pure music coming from every room.
Lao Le laughed sarcastically.
“Did you hear that? No matter how much people who are afraid of the church’s ill intentions try to block the ban, it’s useless. As long as one person tries and enters Paradise, it will be like a virus, uncontrollable. Starting to spread, no matter how prosperous their life is, as long as there is a level above the level, it is impossible for them to have fantasy and desire. Such desires cannot be realized in reality, but in paradise, everything can come true. ”
Li Wei understood now. He looked at Lao Le who didn't know who he was ridiculing, and understood that the church's paradise plan was simply a conspiracy!
The senior officials in the central government know that the church cannot suddenly make a 180-degree turn in its attitude towards the powerful, so they will be wary of this plan in every possible way.
Keren’s desires cannot be guarded against. Those who have experienced paradise will always communicate with others, show off and recommend.
As time went by, many people discovered that people who had entered the paradise did not have any accidents or behaved any differently. Even the church’s own teaching staff would enter the paradise to help those at the bottom. When they use the park for public welfare to relax, even if they are still wary, they will join the park plan with the mentality that everyone around them has experienced it. Even if there is a problem, it is everyone's problem.
It has only been three days since the park plan was launched, and the first batch of people have experienced it.
The entire center has been fascinated by the perfect world that only exists in dreams. Entering the paradise at night will not only have no impact on people's normal life operations, but will make them feel... I slept more comfortably and content than before.
Just like this is a plan that has all the benefits and no harm.
“But is it really not harmful at all?” Li Wei turned to Lao Le and asked.
Lao Le calmly told Li Wei the answer.
“If everyone is allowed to recognize that problems in this society are bad, then the paradise is indeed a bad thing.”
(End of this chapter)