Recently, a classic animation film "Tianshu Qitan 4k Commemorative Edition" is about to be re-released, and it is considered to be the only animation with an original plot among the six classic animated feature films of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio so far. The film tells the story of Yuan Gong teaching the Heavenly Book to the egg to give birth, so that the egg birth can benefit the people of Li. Although it is adapted from some fragments of "The Legend of Ping Demon", the author believes that many of the metaphors are in line with the current situation of scientific popularization, and this article interprets this fairy tale as a popular science perspective, which is purely personal understanding, if there is any impropriety, please criticize and correct.
First of all, the "Book of Heaven" for practical significance can be compared to science and technology, cornucopia can be counted as a scientific and technological product, different people will have different effects, by greedy people such as three fox demons, county orders, small emperors will produce a lot of unexpected consequences, such as county father fell into the cornucopia, the result of countless fathers.
Most of the technical products themselves are neutral, such as guns and ammunition, although they can be used to kill innocents, but more often they can be used to defend the country. If the crime of indiscriminate killing of innocents is forcibly added to the gun itself, it is certainly unfair, and the good and evil of the person who uses it is the real reason for the completely different consequences.
More commonly, many people take it for granted that pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics, hormones, etc. are toxic and harmful and cannot be used. In fact, there are serious cognitive misunderstandings, in fact, these are the most important scientific discoveries of a certain era, is the huge scientific progress at that time, greatly improved human life, take antibiotics, penicillin (penicillin) found in the early twentieth century and gradually used, in the human fight against infection process played a huge role, some people have studied the Average life expectancy of the Qing Dynasty is less than 30 years old, the average life expectancy of the Republic of China is more than 30 years old, when the price of penicillin is comparable to gold, so it is not affordable for everyone; now the average life expectancy is 70-80 years old, Although it cannot be said that it is all the credit of antibiotics, the progress of modern medicine represented by antibiotics is indispensable.
With the price of antibiotics gradually close to the people, the amount of use is also getting larger and larger, there is a problem of abuse, but the problem of abuse must not blame the antibiotic itself, in fact, the problem appears in people's greed, feel that it is easy to use a large number of unlimited uses, just like the county order thinks that the cornucopia is too good to use, the result is a large number of uses, accidents also occur; then we should blame the cornucopia itself, or the people who use the cornucopia, the answer is obvious. Pesticides, fertilizers, and hormones are all abused, so it is the user itself that should be reviewed, improve the scientific quality of the user, and use it scientifically and rationally to solve the problem, rather than blaming science and technology itself, which is unfair.
Science and technology, the "heavenly book" of human understanding of nature, is changing the world and benefiting mankind with great intensity and strength, but human beings should also seriously think about whether we are fox demons, county orders and small emperors who abuse science and technology to satisfy their greedy desires, or "egg births" that benefit the majority of human beings and even the fraternity of natural life, this animated movie has actually given the answer.