Chapter 1657: Interception of 70 years
From Simon's random introduction to the concept of "The Three-Body Problem" when chatting with everyone in Australia, to Sylvia's writing story into a novel, to the recent completion of the script by Daenerys's screenwriter team, the entire idea is beyond recognition compared to Simon's former memory.
A brand new version, the heroine is named Angela Winston.
Angela, a deliberate name.
Angel, devil?
Angela Winston was born in World War I, experienced World War II, and then the long Cold War. He watched humans almost destroy themselves many times. As an astrophysicist, he accidentally received a signal from the Trismos while participating in a secret alien exploration project in the United States, and the story unfolded.
A brand new story, from Sylvia's perspective, the initial tone is still the most politically correct topic in the world, peace.
However, with the emergence of the Three-Body Man, the news was made public, almost destroying all the existing ethical orders in human society, opening up a special era that lasted for hundreds of years.
The completed script, the first season is mainly based on the first novel of the past, with a style of suspense, telling the story of human society step by step revealing the horror truth that the three-body man has deeply penetrated into all aspects of the earth's world. The most exciting part is naturally the lockdown of advanced human technology by protons.
In addition, the settings of the Three-Body Problem Game were deleted and replaced by a secret Three-Body Problem Research Club.
After all, the West is a more popular club.
Beside the curtain wall of the villa with golden sunset.
When Simon heard Sylvia's question, he shook his head and said, "In fact, many times, creators don't think too much about the process of completing a story. The key is what readers see themselves, or what they want to see."
Sylvia's newlywed husband Steve Elworth echoed: "For a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamlets."
Simon nodded: "Yes."
Nancy Brill said, "I have read the first draft of Sylvia's novel and the concept of the follow-up story I just talked about. Simon, I believe, what do you definitely want to express?"
"There are indeed a lot of things to say, from 'war and peace' to 'survival is nothingness'," Simon shrugged and said with a smile: "Even, my personal thoughts have been different at the same plot and at different times, so the question is still with you, what do you want to see?"
Everyone did not answer, but Nancy pursued her relentlessly: "So, Simon, you must have read the script recently, so what did you think of?"
Let's watch it together.
Simon thought for a while and said, "There is indeed one."
"Um?"
Simon said: "I have been thinking about the issue of utopia recently and have come to a rather pessimistic conclusion."
No mind.
Everyone looked puzzled.
Even Sylvia, who personally taught this story, could not help but be curious: "Simon, what does it mean?"
Simon felt the little guy on his knee struggle to return to his mother's side, so he had to pick it up and hand it back to Nancy next to him, and sat down again and said: "Some of the recent random thoughts can be related to the Three-Body Problem. Simply put, I suddenly realized that utopia violates human nature, or, more bluntly, utopia violates the survival nature of human beings as creatures. We cannot demand that everyone be as noble as saints. The result of forced suppression will only backfire."
There were smart people on the scene. When Simon said this, everyone couldn't help but fall into association.
After a moment, Janet said first: "The ideal that most people are pursuing is destined to be impossible. This is really a sad thing."
Janet sighed, his tone was not sad at all.
There was still a little smile.
Nancy said in a rebuttal tone: "Idealism is definitely not wrong. It represents our thoughtful humans' expectations for the best of the world. What is wrong is just a series of bad reality."
Sylvia was a little confused: "Simon, are we talking about "The Three-Body Problem"? I don't understand what you are talking about?"
Simon said: "I don't understand either. I have thought too much in recent years and can't help but talk nonsense."
Another burst of laughter.
Everyone laughed, and Sylvia said again: "The problem is, Simon, it turns out that neither utopia nor dystopia are in line with our real society, right?"
"Of course," Simon said: "So, I'm very pessimistic about the future of this world, because our nature is always easy to drag something to an extreme, and it's difficult to keep it in the middle."
Steve said again: "Simon, I probably understand what you are worried about, but isn't our system very good at avoiding the extremes of this society going toward any direction?"
"Our system..." Simon sighed a little, looked at the young man opposite him who was about the same age as him, and said, "Steve, you must know that people are always easily trapped in an illusion, which is to regard a relatively beautiful moment in their lives as eternity, and think that the world will always be like this, but the fact is not like this."
Steve Elworth was puzzled for a moment.
Simon said: "In this way, based on the current average life span of 70 years, 1930 to 2000 is equivalent to a person's life. Then, recall how many bad moments our world has experienced during this period and is almost on the verge of destruction. Or, you can also take 70 years at will from the last one or two thousand years with clear records of human history to see how many turmoil and disasters have occurred during this period."
No one else on the scene had considered this issue.
After Simon's words came to an end, everyone couldn't help but recall them together, and then they couldn't help but smile a little.
really.
Not to mention the more distant history, only 1930 to 2000. In these seventy years, if this is a person's life, he or she will inevitably experience the Great Depression in the United States, the outbreak of World War II, the Cold War standoff, the Cuban missile crisis, the long Vietnam War, the oil crisis, the stagflation in the 1980s, the Gulf War...
It was simply a bad moment and then another bad moment.
After a while, Sylvia said, "Simon, I think it is definitely different now than before. The future... I mean, we have entered a new era, and the future should be full of hope, right?"
Chapter completed!