First, give them despair, then grant them hope.
Just as Ye Wenjie had treated Luo Ji in the original timeline.
A conclusion told to you outright, even if it was the "truth," could never be as profound or firmly held as one reached through your own reflection, setbacks, and eventual realization. Only when humanity truly understood the cruelty of the universe could it make the right choice.
From the very beginning, the Dark Forest theory had doomed humanity and the Trisolaran Civilization to a future with no possibility of peace.
Escapism might preserve human civilization for a time, but it could never protect humanity forever.
So in Alvin's eyes, Zhang Beihai's plan could only offer temporary shelter, and it had many flaws.
Of course, in the original timeline, Zhang Beihai had undoubtedly been humanity's last hope. He had successfully preserved a spark of human civilization.
But now, Alvin didn't need Zhang Beihai, much less his "escapism."
From the very beginning, escapism had been doomed to fail.
He could even foresee the "future."
Perhaps at first, under Zhang Beihai's iron-fisted rule, the humans aboard the escape fleet could maintain a fragile peace.
But as time passed, once the first generation of "enforcers" had died, how could generation after generation of "enforcers" guarantee that humanity would still have its "ambition" as they searched for a new home?
Space travel was a long, long journey, and time... would cruelly wear away humanity's original vision.
Humanity could never withstand the passage of time.
No matter how determined the plan or how precise its execution, the long passage of time would eventually devour it until nothing remained.
Alvin had never underestimated humanity's will, but... he wouldn't overestimate it, either.
If peace between the two sides was impossible, and escape was doomed to end in extinction,