Now, as long as people have a smartphone, they can call and video chat with people thousands of miles away at any time, and they can stay at home and know what is happening around the world.
This would have been unthinkable forty years ago. At that time, people had to contact people, usually by writing a letter, putting it in an envelope, affixing a postage stamp, putting it in the mailbox, storing it in a mail truck, transporting it, unloading it, unloading it, sorting it, loading it on a truck, transporting it... Finally, it comes to the recipient.
If you are separated by a province, it usually takes a week to make a round trip.
Postbox, not many people have seen it now. The picture comes from the Internet
At that time, there were landlines, but the vast majority of people did not have a personal phone.
This is not bad, more than a hundred years ago, the postal network was not established, people could only let people carry letters, and sometimes they paid Hong Hao by mistake.
Forty years ago, there were no high-speed railways and no highways in our country. The 190-kilometer bus from Changwu to Xi'an takes seven or eight hours to travel; From Xi'an to Wuhan by direct express train, 808 kilometers take 21 hours; By steam, Wuhan to Jiujiang is 269 kilometers, 8 hours along the river and 13 hours against the water. The problem is that there were very few cars and boats at that time, and you may not be able to buy a ticket for the day when you get to a place.
Yangtze River passenger ferry, the picture comes from the Internet
Forty years later, from Jiujiang to Changwu, it took no more than 10 hours to take a high-speed plane.
In ancient times, students went to Beijing to take the exam, and officials went out to be officials, and if they were separated by several provinces, it would take several months on the road.
All living things on Earth have a common ancestor, and later evolved into a variety of species. Humans evolved from Australopithecus, 100,000 years ago, Homo sapiens appeared, and we are all descendants of Homo sapiens.
From an evolutionary point of view, 10,000 years is too short. All living things, including humans, have hardly changed in the past 10,000 years, and of course some organisms have become extinct due to human influence.
Whether it is in terms of appearance or brain capacity, we cannot distinguish between our ancestors who have been around for 10,000 years and who we are now; However, our perception of the natural world and human society, our transformation of the natural world and human society, and our way of life have all undergone earth-shaking changes.
The evolution of human beings, the picture comes from the Internet
The present generation is richer and freer than ever before, and this is the dividend of the times that our generation enjoys.
The times will make people perfect, the times will constrain people, and sometimes they will destroy people.
Liu Zongyuan only knew the inevitability of Chinese history when the Zhou system was replaced by the Qin system, and did not know that there was a democratic republican system in ancient Greece and Rome, and of course it was impossible to know that there was still a Magna Carta and the theory and practice of representative system in the West.
There were 14 massacres in ancient Chinese history, and there were many tragic scenes of "white bones exposed in the wild, and no rooster crowing for thousands of miles".
The two world wars of the twentieth century were full of murder and blood.
The bombing of Tokyo, the picture comes from the Internet
In addition to war, there were famines and plagues: the Black Death, the Spanish flu, the coronavirus...
Those who unfortunately suffered can only be said to be "Huangchao killed 8 million people - it is impossible to escape".
The impact of geography on people should not be underestimated.
The Arabian Peninsula, the world's largest peninsula, has scarce rainfall and mostly desert on the surface, which was originally unsuitable for human habitation.
Dubai, the capital of luxury, the picture comes from the Internet
Before Columbus arrived, the Indians who were suitable for the vast American continent had to carry a hand-pulled plow on their shoulders, because the Homo sapiens here killed all the wild animals that could be domesticated before domesticating them.
The Loess Plateau has been over-reclaimed and turned into a barren land with thousands of ravines, and Hainan Island, which people yearn for today, has long been a miasma of exiled prisoners in history.
The Loess Plateau with thousands of ravines, the picture comes from the Internet
Night view of Suzhou High-tech Zone, the picture comes from the Internet
Where would you like to be born? It's not nonsense, everyone wants to be born in Rome. However, this is not an option.
Which family to be born in—this directly affects a person's genetics, resource indebtedness, network and education, and thus affects the trajectory of his future destiny—but it is also something that people cannot choose.
Why does "a dragon give birth to a dragon and a phoenix, and the son of a mouse makes a hole"? Not only the influence of genes, but also the support and edification of the acquired environment also play an important role.
Therefore, the most terrible thing for the children of the poor is not the lack of material things at all, but the superficial, narrow-mindedness and fallacy of cognition, which directly teaches the children to be stupid and useless. By the time the child finally broke through the information cocoon, it was many years later than other people's children.
Therefore, the children of the poor must not be superstitious about their poor and stupid parents, who will lead their children into the ditch and repeat their mistakes.
Yang Yuanyuan, a poor graduate student, the picture comes from the Internet
We have to accept the fixed numbers—those things that are immutable in our fate, and we have to manipulate the variables—those factors that we ourselves can change.
We can migrate, we can migrate, we can cut.