Alienation of Civilization —— About the ETO of the Earth's Three-body Organization

ETO, the earth's three-body organization, plays a very important role in the novel, so how did it appear?

In the first part of Three-body, Ye Wenjie contacted the three-body with radio waves. He wanted to invite Santi to save mankind, and as a result Santi planned to immigrate to the earth.

At that time, the scientific and technological level of the three-body people was far above that of the earth people. They already have the ability of interstellar navigation, and built 1000 huge spacecraft within three years, forming the three-body first fleet. Earth time 1982 set sail for the solar system. The speed of a spaceship can reach one tenth of the speed of light, which is 30 thousand kilometers per second.

Four light-years away, the three-body fleet can reach the solar system in 40 years, but in fact, because the three-body spacecraft is of great mass, it will take 450 years to reach the earth.

Once it reaches one tenth of the speed of light, the fleet can only cruise for a short time, so it will start to slow down, otherwise it will be too late to stay in the solar system and it will only pass the earth.

Watch Hollywood alien disaster movies, Starfleet, Pacific Rim, Battle of Los Angeles, Independence Day, etc. And feel that there is almost no suspense about the outcome of this war.

But the human species has been around for less than 200,000 years. During this period, from the hunting era to the agricultural era, it took more than 100 thousand years; From the agricultural age to the industrial age, it only took thousands of years; It took only 200 years from the industrial age to the electronic age; It took only a few decades to enter the information age.

Human civilization has the ability to accelerate evolution. In contrast, the scientific and technological progress of the three-body civilization has been uniform and even slowed down.

After more than 400 years, human science and technology may develop rapidly.

So it's hard to say who wins and who loses.

In view of this situation, Santi people planned two schemes: one hard and one soft. The first plan is hard: the three-person man quickly launches some equipment to the earth, on the one hand, he monitors the people on the earth, on the other hand, he does some damage and completely locks in the development of earth science and technology. The second scheme is soft, using the rebel forces within human beings to serve the three-person group. This human resistance plan is called the earth three-body organization, or ETO for short.

This is an international secret organization. Its members are mostly senior intellectuals, and there are also many elites in the political and economic circles. The virtual reality three-body game, which appears repeatedly in the novel, was developed by this organization.

The earth's three-body organization is also divided into three factions, namely, the salvation faction, the arrival faction and the smaller survivor faction.

Salvation worships more advanced civilizations than human beings and has beautiful illusions about them. Under the guise of creating a perfect new human civilization, the Advent faction hoped that the three-person group would forcibly supervise and transform mankind and even destroy all mankind. Survivors hope that their children and grandchildren will survive 400 years after the three-person invasion of the earth. They are willing to live in these 400 years. For generations, they have been serving the three-person people. These people are too humble to be mentioned.

So this novel is a story about betrayal.

Why is there such a group of human opposites inside the earth? This is a phenomenon of civilization alienation.

The alienation of civilization refers to the development of a civilization in a direction different from the present or opposite to itself. In other words, deny yourself. The fundamental reason for the alienation of civilization is that everything contains various contradictions, and the interaction of these contradictions may lead things to their own opposites.

People are different from other animals on the earth because we are conscious and have the ability to think and analyze in language. When we can't completely control external things, we always feel lonely and small, which leads to insecurity and fear.

This feeling further drives people to find a sense of unity and strength, which is human instinct.

So there are all kinds of showing off, despising others, brushing the sense of existence in friends circle and so on. In this way, it seems that you can feel your own existence, so as to get a sense of stability and sureness. When most people are scrambling to brush their sense of existence, almost no one can resist.

Because if you don't brush, it means abandonment and loneliness. When you are not recognized by the outside world, it means that you have lost yourself, which is the huge black hole that modern people fall into.

He emphasized that human existence precedes essence. People have absolute freedom in choosing their own essence, and their existence should not depend on reflection from others. Existentialism well criticizes modern people's general anxiety, irritability and boredom, as well as their desire to seek outside, so as to gain their own sense of existence and stability.

The ultimate expression of ETO's external demand is the alienation of human civilization. Advent uses madness and paranoia to brush the sense of existence.

These people are trying to look down from a perspective beyond human beings, and they are also judging the whole human race with their own hatred.

This is actually directly treating yourself as an external other. As long as there is human nature seeking to solve everything, the alienation of civilization is an abyss that cannot be bypassed.

Confucian behavior is not allowed, but it is self-serving; Buddhists become Buddhists only when they see nature; Taoism's insistence on simplicity and unity is the key to pursuing introspection and solving problems by changing subjective state and perfecting self.

As mentioned above, it is impossible for people on earth to agree on the event of discovering aliens, and once there is an alien civilization, it is impossible for people on earth to treat it consistently.

As for what we do personally, different people have different opinions.