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why?

Ling Xiao had never thought about this question.

But she also had no train of thought, and it was impossible to follow along, so she continued to ask: "So... what conclusion does senior have?"

She doesn't care what the answer is, she just wants to know Li Qi's thoughts, and figure out Li Qi's charm through the combination of thoughts and actions.

Li Qize replied: "You said that everyone's mutual distrust and oppression stem from a fundamental incomprehension between people?"

"Huh?" Ling Xiao was surprised.

Wait, think about it carefully, it seems that this is indeed the case.

People naturally don't trust each other. You don't know whether the other party is kind or malicious, and what plans the other party has against you, so you will naturally be on guard.

The reason for this kind of distrust is that everyone cannot perceive each other's thoughts and cannot understand other people's thoughts.

"This is indeed... a very simple idea that is easily overlooked, but it's useless, right? After all, you can't read your mind, and even if you read your mind, you can't be sure whether it's true or not. This inference seems to be nothing. .” Ling Xiao said after thinking about it.

Li Qize said: "No, how could it be meaningless, in fact, this is the basis of all inferences."

"Inhuman indifference and hard-hearted egoism on the one hand, and unspeakable misery on the other, all because of this mistrust."

"A few days ago, we went to observe the residence next to the city's mining area. Did you see it?" Li Qi asked.

"I've been looking at you, senior, it's very difficult to draw you...so I only have you in my eyes." Ling Xiao said.

The implication is that she didn't pay attention to what was going on over there.

"Over there are unscrupulous residences. I counted them. There are a total of 120 houses. There are at least [-] families living in them, with a total of about [-] million people." Li Qi reported the data clearly .

This surprised Ling Xiao very much.

She thought of painting, which she was good at.

If Ling Xiao was paying attention to Li Qi and wanted to paint Li Qi's charm, then Li Qi was paying attention to everyone in this world and wanted to paint the charm of this world.

Just this point made Ling Xiao happy.

As she got to know this senior better, she was a little closer to mastering the other party's charm.

Li Qize continued: "There are so many people, but the total area occupied by that area is less than eighty feet square. This level of crowding has resulted in the rooms inside often being packed together by many families. , several couples, all their children, sometimes adding up to five or six or even ten, sometimes including the grandfather's generation, live in only one house, and next to them is a large open space. "

"Is there no place? Or is there no raw material for building a house? No, it's not. There are plenty of places, and building materials are also available. Even the immortals who are called hard workers can easily make these Mortals have a good life, only because they are afraid."

"Eternal life hard workers are afraid that mortals will snatch their inherently unstable status, and you are afraid that hard workers will climb up, and those who reach the sky are afraid that you will climb up."

"But, is it really a reason to worry about other people's competition? Is this world...really short of resources?" Li Qi asked.

This made Ling Xiao think for a while, and after careful consideration, she chose to shake her head.

Yes, she also knows that it doesn't take many resources to make these people live well, and there is never a shortage of resources.

She doesn't know how many resources there are in this world, but there must be a lot of them.

Li Qi knew even more that this was a first-rank world, and a bunch of ninth-ranks didn't even enter the first-rank, and what they consumed was not as much as the natural breathing of heaven and earth.

"You see, the reason for all this is because of your mutual fear, but this fear is not caused by the problem of living space and resources." Li Qi said: "Then, this fear itself comes from Where does it come from, does it come from not being able to understand each other? Have you ever thought about the nature of this mutual suspicion?"

This made Ling Xiao dumbfounded.

Mutual suspicion... and essence?
Others may harm themselves, so it is imperative to be on guard against others, isn't that justified?
"It may be a bit obscure to say that, so let me put it another way." Li Qi smiled: "Do you think 'you' is defined by yourself, or by someone else?"

"Of course it's me!" Ling Xiao immediately replied.

Just kidding, of course she defines herself, how can she let others define herself?

"Really?" Li Qi immediately asked back: "Don't be so sure."

Then, he continued: "Is it because other people are watching and interacting with you that you are what you are now, or... no matter how the world changes, you will always be you?"

This question adds a level of depth to the conversation.

Indeed, is it possible for a person to grow without being influenced by other people?
Obviously it is impossible.

In that case, wouldn’t the human being be the subject?
From the beginning, we ourselves are with others. Simply put, I am part of the world, and the world is a part of me, and there are other people in this world, and I have been with others from the beginning. 'Everyone' is born with such a sociality.

Everyone is not a single individual, but everyone is essentially a group of people, an undifferentiated, abstract, anonymous, and vague group of people.

This possibility made Ling Xiao suddenly break out in a cold sweat.

If this is the case, doesn't it mean...she doesn't have a real self?Because she is influenced by other people all the time, and finally countless influences become her at this moment.

She has never had real free will, she is affected all the time, the self is a social product, and the self is jointly constructed by others.

Li Qi said as if teaching, but also as if talking to himself: "So, you said, is this kind of resistance actually a kind of competition? You are afraid of them, not because you are afraid that they will compete for your living space. Because you all know, it's a fight for subjectivity."

"As a part of this group of vague people, each of you wants to expand your influence as much as possible, and you want to let the 'self' overwhelm the 'others', and finally occupy the self of the 'others', and become the leader of this group of people. Absolute dominance, only in this way can the true self be presented, otherwise it will be the self of others.”

"Look, is this competition for the subjectivity of each individual in the group the root cause of all this?" Li Qi asked.

He seems to be asking Ling Xiao, and he seems to be asking himself.

In the situation Li Qi assumed, others must exist and must be suppressed.

Others are hell, not because others are malicious, but because the existence of others is to suppress their own subjectivity, so in order to maintain their own subjectivity, they need to reaffirm their own subjectivity and suppress the subjectivity of others.

Others are everywhere, even if they do not actually encounter you on the spot, even when you are alone, you and others are engaged in a subjective struggle.

Therefore, oppressing and oppressing other people has become a normal state, not to compete for living space and resources, but to ensure that one is always independent in this abstract and chaotic society.

Ling Xiao was taken aback by Li Qi's rhetoric.

She even forgot that she was here to observe Li Qi's charm, and was overwhelmed by Li Qi's attempt to analyze the essence of society.

But Li Qi didn't wait for her to respond. After asking these questions, he lowered his head again and fell into deep thought.

Obviously, Li Qi himself has no answers to these questions.

He still needs more clues, he needs to observe more Xiantian's actual situation and get more specific information before he can continue to infer.

After a while, Ling Xiao raised her head.

The Li Qi in front of her still looked like that.

Silent, indifferent, ignoring everything around him, looking at everything around him seriously, with a pretentious attitude.

Before, Ling Xiao also thought that this person was pretending to be profound.

But now, after listening to the other party's remarks, she found that this person was really thinking about some kind of social root that she couldn't understand at all.

As a result, Li Qi's charm seemed to become more profound.

She quickly took out a pen and paper, and drew a sketch in a swish.

It's a rough sketch, and even his face doesn't look like Li Qi.

But that contemplative temperament has three points of sincerity.

Ling Xiao glanced at the sketch she drew, and simply tore off the paper.

Not enough, not far enough.

This three-point true meaning is not enough to describe the man in front of her. She needs to observe more deeply and understand his actions and thoughts more carefully.

Thinking of this, she even looked forward to the next step with Li Qi.

Li Qi also just said casually, and didn't expect the other party to give an answer. Anyway, for him, keeping Ling Xiao was just to avoid some troubles.

Yes, if Ling Xiao is driven away, those local sixth-rankers will probably be very uneasy. When they are uneasy, people will do some irrational things. At that time, there is no need to worry about Li Qi's safety. The social structure you want to observe will be destroyed.

Is this kind of surveillance actually out of competition for subjectivity?After all, if Li Qi was allowed to dominate, they might lose their authority in the city.

Yes, in the situation constructed by Li Qi, authority and prestige are the main forms of existence of subjectivity. When your words and will are carried out by others, this kind of subjectivity will be fully displayed. Others People's subjectivity is erased, their individuality is suppressed, and everyone is forced to carry out the subjectivity of the authority and implement his will.

When you yourself need someone else to define you, you no longer have subjectivity.

You need other people's opinions to define you, otherwise you don't know who you are.

It's simple and common, like, a typical self-perception: I'm a man and my job is an engineer.

Then, for this 'I', man and engineer are his own definition, description, and label for himself.

However, aren’t these labels formed by our own interactions with others and from the feedback of others?
Can a person form this self-knowledge if he is left to live alone, without contact with anything external?
So, doesn't this prove that all self-evaluations are actually what we get from other people's gazes on 'I', their judgments on 'I', and their descriptions of 'I'.

Therefore, there is no real 'self', only the 'self-subjectivity' in which all people are constantly interacting and fighting with others.

Others will struggle with 'I' for subjectivity, and others will objectify 'I' and label 'I'.

For 'I', this is unacceptable, I am the subject, why should I be personified by others?

However, in the face of authority, 'I' may concede defeat in this struggle for subjectivity.

'I' think he's right to label me...?
I seem to be a man, I seem to be an alchemist, they all say that I am an alchemist, so there is nothing wrong with me being an alchemist?Then I lay in the label woven for "me" by others, and I felt very comfortable, doing what a man should do, doing what an alchemist should do, and being a man and an alchemist with peace of mind.

This is the ending after the failure of the subjectivity struggle, that is: 'the self is defined by others', 'finding one's own position according to the evaluation and definition of others'.

The outcome after the victory of the struggle is naturally to be able to define others and occupy a dominant position in the group. It can be said: "These people are actually just lazy", "Some groups have such and such characteristics".

The characteristic of victory is that the properties he mentioned will be accepted by others, and even become the self-cognition of a certain group, and the losers will naturally accept these cognitions.

Some people may not have won, but he can also make this kind of evaluation, because in this way he can pretend that he has won the war of subjectivity, and there is a pleasure of pointing the country, but no one listens to him.

This authority to define others is the triumph of the individual in the group.

And in order to maintain such authority, one needs strength, fame, wealth, and so on.

The meaning of these things is to define others easily and conveniently.

In this way, the vague "group of people" in the group will be differentiated at this moment, and the individual in the group will be defined at this moment.

Therefore, to maintain the existence of the bottom is to maintain the existence of its own subjectivity, that is, to maintain its absolute status.

Li Qi observed the miners' work and thought about it.

After another few days passed, he stood up.

Then, he said to Ling Xiao: "Okay, I've finished reading the places on the lower floor, it's time to visit your place, I want to hold a banquet, please send me an invitation letter, how about it?"