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Text Chapter 645, The Future Era (2)

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    After hearing Scrooge's words, Dana was silent for a long time.  She knew from reading that Scrooge was not telling lies, and that what he said were things that were very likely to happen in the future.  Even if she wanted to, she could think of many more terrifying things.  For example, the reason why people were willing to follow the Bolsheviks was because the Bolsheviks promised to end the war and bring them a better life.  In theory, a socialist system that never worries about insufficient demand and can expand production without limit as long as there are resources should indeed bring peace and a better life to the people, but in practice this may not be the case.  The war between the imperialists ended, but the civil war began, and the civil war continued even after the imperialist wars were over.  In fact, because of this, many people who originally supported the revolution have begun to regret it, and even turned to the counter-revolutionary side.  If once the civil war is over, people can farm in peace and develop people's livelihood in peace, then Dena believes that the people will be satisfied and will soon forget the extra time of war.  But things are not that easy. Although Dena believes that winning the civil war is not too difficult, this is not the end of the difficulties, but only the beginning of them.  This emerging country is surrounded by enemies. It must become strong as soon as possible. It must move forward quickly, at all costs and by any means.  To do this, it must sacrifice many things, perhaps one or two generations, or even more.  Not many people can really bear such a life of being unable to breathe, so many people will regret it and feel that they have been cheated.  However, this country must not pause for a moment. Pause means death, which means that all the blood shed before has been in vain, and the sins suffered before have been in vain.  In the future, the people will have to suffer a second round of hardship and suffer a second round of guilt.  Therefore, anyone who tries to let the country take a breather and make the people's burden a little lighter is dragging the country back, is an enemy of the revolution, is a counter-revolution, and needs to be ruthlessly suppressed.  Some of the people here may be completely good people, or they may simply be revolutionaries now, but "But Dana, I am very worried about your future." Scrooge said, "I think you should be able to figure it out.  Your revolution will encounter a series of problems. Maybe today's fellow travelers may become tomorrow's counter-revolutionaries, especially in the process of rapid industrialization that you need to do whatever it takes and use any means.  The situation may be exactly the same as during the French Revolution, especially during the Robespierre period. In Moscow's Red Square, a high guillotine may be erected, and a "counterrevolutionary" and "national" will be hung on every telephone pole.  "Enemies", "traitors" and other corpses. Dena, you have enough knowledge and experience to know that I am not exaggerating here. This is entirely possible, and even something that will happen, you think.  Is it really okay for you to stay in this environment? " Scrooge looked at Dana, hoping to see doubts, fear, and wavering in Dana's eyes.  This is normal. When anyone sees such a dark future, no matter how much they believe that there is light behind the darkness, or whether they believe that passing through this darkness is the only way to see the light, they will still have doubts and fear.  .  After all, people are not machines. As long as they are human, they will be afraid.  Neither of them spoke anymore. After a long time, Dena smiled bitterly and said in a voice that almost only she could hear: "When the White Army officer called me out just now, I thought he would take me to the river.  , then threw me a shovel, asked me to dig a hole on the river beach, and then shot me in the back of the head. Now that I think about it, the result is actually pretty good, although it would be like killing me like this.  As Lev said: 'This is a nameless sacrifice, you will perish, and no one will even know it, and no one will remember you with respect.' Although I also felt that I had done it when I walked on this road.  So well prepared, although I was even prepared to commit a crime, although I also thought that maybe one day, you know that in the future you will deny your current belief in hardship, and you will think that you have wasted it in vain.  "Your youth", but I am still not brave enough to really face the darkness ahead However, I still believe that my judgment is not wrong, and the path I am taking now is not bad, just like Robles.  It's not like Peel's path was wrong back then!" Dana's voice gradually became louder, and she also raised her head and looked into Scrooge's eyes without fear.  "Okay, Dena." Scrooge said with a disappointed tone, "You know, the family has always wanted you to go back. Although the third generation of children in the family has almost grown up, they can't compete with you.  You still have none." "No, Uncle Scrooge, I'm not going back."  "Tell me your reasons." Scrooge did not show any dissatisfaction because of Dana's rejection.    "I don't want to do useless things that are destined to be eliminated by history." Dena replied, "When I return to my family, of course I can be an excellent capitalist, but the capitalist system is mathematically impossible.  It has congenital flaws, and its failure and destruction are inevitable and inevitable. Such a thing is not worth investing too much in. " Scrooge understood what Dena called "mathematical" "congenital flaws."  , that is, the problem of supply far exceeding demand that will inevitably occur in an isolated capitalist economic system.  Of course, this problem can be alleviated to a certain extent by plundering colonies. However, colonies are limited, but the expansion of production capacity is unlimited. In this way, economic crisis is naturally inevitable, so because there is too much production, everyone has no food.  When there is nothing to eat, there is a situation that obviously does not comply with the most basic mathematical laws.  "Dena, of course what you said makes sense, but I don't think the phenomenon you mentioned violates the most basic laws of the world." Scrooge thought for a while and replied, "Dena, you know  , the second law of thermodynamics has this description: "The entropy of an isolated system never decreases automatically. The entropy remains unchanged during reversible processes and increases during irreversible processes." The innate problem of capitalism you mentioned is actually very consistent.  Isn't it a law of physics? To increase negative entropy, you must find a way outside the system, just like relying on colonies to solve the problem. As you imagine now, it is contrary to the economic self-prosperity of the colonies.  It's a law of nature." After hearing this, Dena laughed: "Uncle Scrooge, you are changing the concept. It is true that in an isolated system, the entropy value will always increase irreversibly.  In other words, the source of negentropy does not originate from foreign colonies. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the growth of negentropy in the entire human society since the industrial revolution.  The source of energy, not colonies or something, I have considered this issue a long time ago. " "The source of energy?" Scrooge did not react for a while.  "Before the industrial revolution, all the energy required for human activities came from the direct or indirect use of solar energy by living organisms. The reason why the industrial revolution allowed humans to make a big step forward is that it allowed humans to obtain negative entropy.  Relying only on the direct and indirect use of solar energy by living organisms, the use of fossil energy has become the mainstream. The use of fossil energy accumulated over many millions of years has enabled humans to obtain negative entropy that greatly exceeds any previous era.  This makes today's society possible. Of course, the consumption of fossil energy will be far greater than its accumulation, so from this perspective, the negentropy of human society has increased, but the overall entropy of the earth will also increase one day.  Maybe fossil energy will be exhausted, but thanks to Einstein, Marie Curie, and their great discovery, Einstein told us that e=mc2, which shows that in addition to fossil energy, there are other possible negative entropies.  The source of energy, and Ms. Marie Curie¡¯s research on radioactivity has pointed the way to the possibility of new energy sources. Fossil energy will eventually run out, but maybe by then, we will be able to directly use the energy contained in matter.  .So, colonies are not necessary,¡± Dena replied.  Dana's answer greatly exceeded Scrooge's expectations. Scrooge hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Dena, what you said seems to make sense, but I need to think about it again.  " In a conversation, being at a disadvantage on an issue is not a terrible thing. The terrible thing is that if you don't know how to admit defeat or stop loss, you will linger on the issue where you are already at a disadvantage, and the result will be bad.  There are more and more flaws, and we are increasingly at a disadvantage and unable to turn over.  At this time, the right thing to do is to immediately admit that you have not thought comprehensively enough, then end the topic and redirect the conversation to other aspects.  "But Dana, even if you don't consider this issue, even if capitalism is destined to perish, your revolution is bound to fail. Otherwise, we can deduce it on the spot." Scrooge said.  Dena has always been a very strong person, and Scrooge knew that a live performance of something full of confrontation would definitely attract Dena's attention.  "Well, Uncle Scrooge, I'm interested in that too," replied Dana.
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