Volume 5: A New Era Chapter 155: Pacifier
The term "pacifier fun" comes from the fact that when a child is young, he wants to drink milk, but he cannot be given milk all the time, so a pacifier is given to him to suck on.
Although the child cannot suck anything, he will still feel very happy.
In essence, it refers to the act of using false happiness without any substantial things to soothe people's hearts.
With the development of capital, 80% of the wealth in society is in the hands of 20% of the population. This is the 80/20 rule.
This also means that 80 percent of people are marginalized by society.
Because most of the means of production are controlled by a small number of people, these marginalized people can only serve as labor and have their surplus value exploited.
In the process, the oppressed people will be alienated.
It’s just that sometimes the exploitation is too cruel, and people’s self-alienation is not complete, so they don’t become the kind of hardworking ox who never complains.
At the very least, these people will lose interest in their work and start to slack off, causing damage to their labor force. At worst, they will become so dissatisfied with the status quo that they will go to extremes, and so on. They will reach extremes in all aspects.
To avoid this situation, someone proposed the principle of pacifier pleasure.
Using false and cheap happiness to stimulate people 's senses, such as various TV programs, short videos, online games, etc., many of which are actually not nutritious, just like a pacifier in a baby's mouth, which does not provide anything substantial but just makes you happy for a certain period of time.
People's reactions to the outside world are actually limited. This kind of happiness can divert your attention, dissipate your unpleasant emotions, and make you lose the ability to think about real problems.
With the loss of thinking ability, human alienation has been completed unknowingly, and a qualified tool man has been created.
Moreover, this type of pacifier has now spawned many varieties, and you can use it to harvest another wave of leeks.
If we look beyond the phenomenon to see the essence, then Chang Lan is actually just one of the pacifiers.
If you carefully observe his actions over the years, you will find a problem.
He was like a monkey on the journey to the West. All the monsters he killed were just those without any background.
In fact, Chang Lan was even more excessive. Monkey would at least fight against monsters with backgrounds, but Chang Lan never really touched the powerful from beginning to end.
Apart from rescuing people from various accidents, the people he attacked the most were actually the rat people who went to extremes and committed crimes in order to escape from their class.
Chang Lan fulfilled the responsibility of a pacifier very well, allowing most people to immerse themselves in the fantasy that someone was standing up for them, while eliminating some people who were unwilling to indulge in the fantasy.
In addition, some powerful people lost in the struggle, and Changlan became the knife for further attack.
However, this knife was not pointed at the powerful, but at the white gloves supported by those powerful.
During this process, Chang Lan seemed to be responsible for eliminating evidence and preventing these incidents from implicating those powerful people.
This is the value of Changlan’s existence. The so-called protective wall for most people is indeed correct for some people.
Because in the eyes of those people, ordinary people are not considered human beings at all.
It is like the "poor family" in ancient times, which actually refers specifically to the aristocratic families with lower power, also called the common people, and does not refer to the poor class. The poor can only be called the common people.
When the literati sometimes shouted "do not compete with the people for profit", they were not referring to the common people, but to themselves, the powerful class.
Most of the time, the powerful class will divide people into different classes because of their class, and the common people, who are inferior, are not worthy of being called human beings.
Therefore, the "people" that Chang Lan protects are only the powerful class. To the common people, he is just their pacifier, and at most he is protecting the property of the powerful.
Lu Bai's words made Chang Lan's expression change, and then Chang Lan's external mental power suddenly surged, as if he wanted to make Lu Bai shut up.
However, until this moment, Lu Bai had not sensed any change in Chang Lan's purity.
"So that's how it is. Are you also immersed in this false happiness?" Lu Bai's words became more and more penetrating.
"Shut up, you will only disrupt order and bring pain!" This was the first sentence Chang Lan and Lu Bai said.
From this sentence, we can clearly see Chang Lan's nature.
He is well aware of his nature as a pacifier and is happy to play the role of this pacifier. He simply believes that this will ensure social order, bring happiness to most people and avoid pain for most people.
A typical self-deceiving compromising reformist.
In the eyes of people like Chang Lan, the overall situation is more important.
My favorite saying is that any bad order is better than no order.
"But in fact, there is only one problem. You don't have the courage to face the powerful!" Lu Bai always kills people by destroying their hearts.
“Because people do not have the courage to face the powerful, the order formed by the powerful in order to exploit their own interests becomes the general situation.”
"In fact, they are not the overall situation. Compared to the oppressed people in the past few decades, or even in the distant future, they are just parasites living on it. Eradicating them will only cause pain to the entire system. It's just that you don't have the courage to face this pain!"
"If the order has become rotten to the core, then we must overthrow it and establish a new order. The rotten order only maintains temporary peace, but it harms the interests of several or even dozens of generations of people. You just don't have the courage to face the threat of that rotten order, and you don't have the courage to establish a new order!"
"You always give people the feeling of the dawn, but it will only be the dawn, because you no longer have the courage to rise!"
"The sun, which should shine upon all living things, can only serve as a headlight to confuse all living things in the darkness!"
On the other side of the ring, Zhang Hao, who had won another victory, was listening to Lu Bai's words.
I just felt inexplicably excited, but also a little unhappy.
The exciting thing is that Zhang Hao was once a fan of Chang Lan, until he realized that because of Chang Lan, he gradually gave up his efforts and placed all his hopes on Chang Lan to save himself.
So Zhang Hao gradually stopped being a fan, then chose to practice martial arts on his own, and finally fell into Lu Bai's trap.
The annoying thing is that Lu Bai actually understands everything.
Chang Lan is the morning light that cannot rise, Zhang Hao is the sun that wants to climb up and illuminate everything, then Lu Bai is the black hole.
How are black holes formed?
When a dying star collapses, it collapses inward, which becomes a black hole.
Under the influence of its own gravity, the core rapidly shrinks and collapses, causing a powerful explosion. All the matter inside is turned into neutrons, and the internal space and time are also compressed.
Lu Bai could have chosen to become a star like the sun, but he chose to only care about himself, so he skipped the stage of becoming a star and directly became a black hole.
Lu Bai pointed out Chang Lan's problem at this moment not in order to allow Chang Lan to continue to climb.
But it is to capture this ray of light with its own huge gravitational force like a black hole.
A black hole is a celestial body whose space-time curvature is so great that even light cannot escape from its event horizon.
It was obvious that Lu Bai had his eyes on Chang Lan at this moment.
Once Chang Lan's defenses are pierced by Lu Bai's words and he loses his consciousness as the light and chooses to turn evil, things will be troublesome.
Besides, Lu Bai's words were somewhat easy to say.
Many things cannot be solved just by talking about them. They require many realistic conditions to move forward step by step.
The reasons why the world has reached its current situation are very complicated. It is not easy to overthrow those powerful people and establish a new order.
Besides, the top of this order is actually the Martial Ancestor.
Wu Zu and most people in the Wudao Association have actually been working hard for this order. This order is indeed very bad, but whether it is completely bad or not depends on personal perception.
At least for now, there are still many people who believe that Wu Zu can eradicate these drawbacks and save order.
This also means that the time to overthrow this order has not yet come.
But it is impossible for Chang Lan, who is on the ring, to think so comprehensively.
He is too pure. When used to describe people, the word "pure" is usually not a good word.
For example, Lu Bai is also very pure, he is a creature of pure desire.
Chang Lan grew up in a good family environment. He had a smooth life since childhood and received a good family education.
When the Metaverse Project began, he was selected very easily.
In fact, his vision has always been on the upper class, and he knows that the upper class has many problems.
However, being born into this class, he had no way to fight against this class. According to his understanding, he could only find ways to bridge the rifts between them.
Maintaining order is his choice. Any bad order is better than no order.
So anyone who wants to challenge this order will be his enemy.
At the same time, his presence can comfort most people and stop them from suffering.
In Chang Lan's view, everything he did was meaningful.
However, at this moment, this point was exposed by Lu Bai.
These remarks are also spreading through the Internet.
Some of those people in the metaverse silently gave up supporting Chang Lan, but some were still immersed in fantasy and continued to regard Chang Lan as their savior.
There were even many people who madly rushed into the Metaverse because they hated Lu Bai and therefore supported Chang Lan.
Just like before, after Lu Bai reversed Shi Bingrong's alienation and made him wake up, he cried and blamed Lu Bai for making him wake up.
This world is too bitter, and everyone just wants to indulge in fantasy and doesn’t want to wake up.
At this moment, those who are guilty are not those who persecute them, nor those who anesthetize them, but those who wake them up.
At this moment, Lu Bai was the culprit who pulled out the baby's pacifier, causing the baby to cry loudly.
This kind of behavior is naturally hateful.
Chang Lan was caught up in this hatred.
He saw the pain of countless people in their waking state, and thus began to hate Lu Bai, who "caused" all this.
