What was a sense of disconnect?
What was a dimensional-reduction strike?
Lin Ke had never denied the wisdom of the ancients. Their wisdom was absolutely breathtaking.
But wisdom did not mean knowledge, nor did it mean breadth of experience.
What the internet age, the information age, had given Lin Ke was not extraordinary wisdom. He considered his intelligence slightly below average.
What the age had given him, however, was a stream of information that brought everything together.
People could think of adding heating and flushing to toilets, of Pinduoduo's "slash the price" feature, of drawing cards and rolling stat panels, of The Three-Body Problem and dark forest theory...
Only when minds were enlightened and thinking opened up could people conceive of more.
Take those novelists, for instance, from "Journey to the West" to "The Three-Body Problem," from "Harry Potter" to "The Avengers."
Although their works had certain limitations imposed by their times and certain flaws, they undoubtedly represented the crystallization of those writers' knowledge, as well as expressions of particular ideas and perceptions.
The formations in Investiture of the Gods were all set up on the ground, yet overlooked threats from beneath it.
In The Avengers, they used the most advanced technology to fight the most primitive battles.
But The Three-Body Problem was different. The Droplet, the Two-Dimensional Foil, and the like had profoundly shocked readers.
Different works brought different understandings.
Different understandings also brought different works.
And so, Lin Ke now felt that although the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty had countless wise people and sages, it was still at the stage of fighting with swords and sabers.
The blades grew ever sharper, but no matter how sharp they became, an atomic bomb would finish them off.
That made broadening the people's understanding an urgent task!
While Lin Ke pondered,