Why can't humans live in an era of "too gentleness", I want to answer this question with a story from "The Three-Body Problem".
I've asked a lot of people, which one do you like the most about the characters who appeared in "The Three-Body Problem"? Which one do you hate the most? Most of the answers: the favorite is the sword bearer Luo Ji, and the most annoying is the sword bearer Cheng Xin!
Why do you like Luo Ji? This also begins with the Trisolaran invasion of Earth.
In the setting of "Three-Body", the home star environment of the Three-Body People is extremely harsh, and this civilization is almost crazy in order to find the next foothold, not only desperately developing science and technology to explore the universe, but also implementing a highly centralized system, sharing information among all people, operating efficiently, and paying off.
On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, the 1397 Trisolaran finally received a signal from Ye Wenjie, an earthling, and this discovery made the entire Trisolaran Civilization overjoyed, and they immediately concentrated their resources to build a spaceship and prepared to have a big shuffle on the earth!
After all kinds of twists and turns, mankind has received two important pieces of news: first, the Trisolaran is about to arrive on Earth in 400 years; second, the trisolaran technology is one dimension ahead of the Earth! What is a dimension?
For example, the degree of technology of our human beings is in three-dimensional space, then the technology of the three-body people is in four-dimensional space, observing three-dimensional space from four-dimensional space, and every detail of all of us from birth to death is vivid, as if looking at a comic strip.
Therefore, all the meetings and actions of mankind to resist the Trisolarans, in the eyes of the Trisolarans, are simply live broadcasts, and there is no secret at all. However, human beings are not for nothing, after the destruction of the Earth rebel base formed by Ye Wenjie, human beings learned from the letters exchanged between the rebels and the Trisolaran that the Trisolarans especially wanted to kill a human named "Luo Ji", and also learned that the Trisolarans were particularly afraid of the skill of human beings "lying", so a mad plan came into being under the discussion of the United Nations----- which is the famous "Wallfacer Project".
The main content of the Wallfacer Project is: to select the four most capable strategists and leaders around the world, they make plans completely according to their own thinking, do not communicate with the outside world, the real purpose and intention of the plan are hidden in their brains, and they also have the power to dispatch the earth's resources to the greatest extent and give the Trisolarans a fatal blow at critical moments.
The four wallfacers who were selected were: U.S. Defense Secretary Taylor, Venezuelan President Rey Diaz, world-renowned brain scientist Hines, and cynical Luo Ji!
After Luo Ji became the wall man above, he witnessed Taylor's plan being punctured, and then he committed suicide by drinking bullets, and Ray Diaz's plan was discovered, and then he was stoned to death.
Under the pressure of the United Nations, he finally understood the axiom of "cosmic sociology" left by Ye Wenjie: First, survival is the first need of cosmic civilization; second, civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged!
Based on the above two axioms, and based on the chain of suspicion and the big bang theory of technology, Luo Ji realized the law of the dark forest: he believed that the entire universe was a huge dark forest, and every civilization was a hunter with a gun, who sneaked through the forest like a ghost, gently pulled away the branches that stood in the way, tried not to make a sound from the footsteps, and even breathed carefully: if he found another civilization, there was only one thing he could do: shoot each other.
Why can't hunters coexist peacefully with each other? Because the total amount of matter in the universe is limited, and the growth and expansion of civilization is just needed, there is an irreconcilable contradiction between the two, and from the perspective of our human development history, 500 years ago we were still slashing and burning, and now computers and airplanes are omnipotent, so any extremely weak civilization may produce a technological explosion and grow up in a very short period of time! So when two civilizations meet in the universe, they simply cannot progress peacefully together, and the universe is a life and death situation.
After understanding this, Luo Ji used his privilege to publicly send a "stellar coordinate" to the universe, and predicted that the star would explode before the Trisolarans came. At first, no one believed him at all, and laughed that it was "Luo Ji's spell".
It wasn't until more than 100 years later that the star actually exploded as scheduled, and Luo Ji became the only belief of Earthlings after the spell took effect. However, the trisolaran test did not end there, they blocked the signal of the solar system with water drop technology, this trick made it impossible to transmit information on the earth to the universe, that is, Luo Ji's spell was invalidated, it could not send the coordinates of the three-body parent star to other civilizations in the universe, lost the capital that threatened the trisolarans, and the earth fell into a dead end again for a while.
The road to fighting wits with alien civilizations is destined to be long, and then Luo Ji accepted the assignment of the United Nations to preside over the Snow Project, the project is to create a stellar hydrogen bomb, which although the lethality is huge, but in the eyes of the Trisolaran people is like a toy, so the people on Earth are angry, they think that Luo Ji is deceiving them, is burying the future of the earth, angry people have removed Luo Ji's identity as a wallfacer, kicked him out of the house, and no one even wants to provide him with food!
The weak Luo Ji came to a cemetery and dug a pit for himself in front of Ye Wenjie's daughter's grave, do you think he is ready to bury himself? No, the human race abandoned him, but he still wanted to make a final attempt for the fate of mankind!
Weakly, he picked up his pistol, pointed it at the door of his head, and shouted into the air: I'm going to talk to the Trisolaran. He showed his watch and said loudly: This is a cradle system for detecting my vital signs, as long as I die, the three thousand six hundred and fourteen hydrogen bombs on the snow project will explode, thus forming a huge oil film, which will reflect three simple patterns through the sun, and these three pictures are the coordinates of the parent star of the three bodies!
Other civilizations in the universe will know you exist, and in 30 seconds, I'll shoot at my own heart, and while the Trisolaran planet will be exposed, Earth will be exposed, but I have no choice!
In just a few seconds, the Trisolaran panicked, because the simulation of the four-dimensional space told them that all this was true, and Luo Jizhen intended to take the Earthlings and the Trisolarans with them. So they immediately told Luo Ji: Don't shoot, everything is good to discuss!
Luo Ji then put forward several conditions: first, the Trisolaran's waterdrop weapon left the solar system; second, the Trisolaran spacecraft was not allowed to enter the solar system! In this way, the Plan of the Trisolaran invasion of Earth was temporarily deterred by Luo Ji!
The reason why I want to emphasize "temporary" is because at this time, the Three-Body Civilization and the Earth Civilization have entered a state of strategic tug-of-war, and no one can help anyone. After hundreds of years of fighting with the Trisolarans, Luo Ji had long since become as determined as iron as he was, and the Trisolarans simply did not have the courage to compete with such a sword-wielding person.
So, the Trisolaran people changed their strategy, they began to help human beings build the earth, with their own high technology to help humans light up the technology tree. Human beings soon learned the technology of modifying genes from the trisolarans, since then there are no more ugly people on the earth, everyone has become handsome and beautiful women, the trisolarans have also greatly extended the life of human beings by modifying genetic telomeres, and on the grounds of liking human culture, they have greatly encouraged human beings to create art and sublimate culture, in such a peaceful and prosperous world, human beings have not had a war for 61 years, most ordinary people have begun to tend to be feminine, refined, and the streets are full of women's clothing bigwigs. The earth has entered an era of extreme tenderness!
If you think about it, human beings and trisolarans have coexisted peacefully for 61 years, with leaps in science and technology, economic prosperity, equality for all, freedom of wealth for everyone, and the time of the Taiping And Prosperous Era is too long, men almost forget how to fight, and the values and aesthetics of the whole society have also undergone tremendous changes.
For example, everyone agrees that Luo Ji is too rough, how can he use the earth to kidnap the cute three-body father? Such a decision is too cruel and not gentle to all mankind, so we have to change to a gentle sword bearer.
Immediately after, Cheng Xin was selected to become the next sword bearer, the role of Virgin by netizens, in my opinion, her only shortcoming is too gentle, too compassionate, such a person is not suitable for the sword bearer. Because the sword bearer is the executioner, it holds the fate of the earth and the two planets of the three-body, and can make trillions of beings disappear in one thought, the three-body people have secretly cultivated human beings for so many years, and their purpose is to destroy the human spirit with "gentleness" and finally reach the plan to invade the earth.
They succeeded, and within fifteen minutes of Cheng Xin taking over as the sword bearer, the Trisolaran Fleet brazenly launched an invasion, and before humans could react, the earth had already fallen. Humans were then asked to emigrate en masse to Australia, where within a year 4.16 billion people were gathered, starvation, panic, riots, disease, as if hell on earth, and the Trisolarans allowed humans to kill each other on this isolated island, and humanity finally tasted the evil consequences of "gentleness", but it was too late.
I think it is not Cheng Xin's fault, but the fault of the entire human race in that gentle era, as Le Pen said in "The Ragtag Crowd": The group has a powerful destructive power, and their law is always to return to the barbaric stage! (Stages they consider comfortable)
If you hear this story here, then I need to explain the question at the beginning, why we can't live in an era of "too gentle", or "feminine culture prevailing", it is very simple, you can think of the West as a trisolaran, and the whole East Asian circle as an earth civilization.
In this comparison, you will find that the big screen in the United States is all Tough Guys such as Iron Man and Captain America, while there has been a "rice circle aesthetic" and "feminine culture" in the East Asian circle, which is very alarming, when the men of a country begin to grease and powder, even the gun is unstable, the country has no need to exist.
If you enter, you can't be a home, you can't be invincible to foreign patients, the country is eternally dead, and then you know that you are born in trouble and die in comfort! Remember!