High Above

"My limit..."

At this moment, Marquis Grant finally understood what it means to "want and want at the same time". He now wanted everything to be the same for little Kemit and everything would grow naturally, and he also hoped that his child would have the character he wanted.

But this is impossible. Although Terra does not say that she ages at the age of three, Kemet is obviously not the kind of 'smart person' who is sharp and cautious in the usual sense. He is the kind of child who is cheerful and a little off-kilter. If he does not grow crooked, he may become crooked in the future. He is the kind of heroic big brother-like figure - just like his grandfather Harrison Grant, who charges forward and dies quickly.

Such a character cannot be said to be bad, but as the heir to the Marquis family and the disciple of Grand Duke Yinfeng, Kemite must be more cautious, not to cause trouble to his teacher and family, and not to die casually.

However, how can it be so simple?

Kermit is destined to be unable to naturally grow into the kind of 'wisdom' person described by Ian... But if she were to be transformed, it would be equivalent to modifying Kermit's nature, making him no longer the same person...

Marquis Grant held his head and thought hard.

"Learning is about transforming oneself."

Ian looked at the old superior in front of him and said calmly: "Encountering failure and changing because of pain are also about transforming yourself."

"Even after being in prison and enlightening once, it is possible for a recidivist criminal to abandon his past life and regain a new life - or to completely degenerate and become a villain who will be remembered in history."

"These are all about transforming yourself and reshaping yourself."

"But no one thinks that this is a kind of brainwashing... You know, in schools, private schools, under the guidance of teachers like me, the information bombardment a child experiences may not be much better than brainwashing."

"Just like the many schools and training camps I opened in Xiahui City, don't they rely on collectivism and repeated dogmas over and over again to brainwash them into a pair of Silver Peak leaders through the resonance between people? Do you have a sense of identity with me and are you willing to be loyal to me?"

"What is the difference between these 'brainwashings' for ordinary people and my technology?"

"This can't be considered brainwashing..."

Raising his head, Viscount Grant understood that these words were Ian's guidance to him, so he thought carefully and tried to refute along the lines of thought given by Ian: "These are things that people have 'chosen' to experience on their own." , I have feelings and thoughts, so I make changes.”

"Even if you follow the trend and change your thinking model according to the public's thinking, it can be regarded as a kind of subtle influence... Otherwise, if you have to go to the extreme, when you communicate with others, if you accept the other person's opinion , it’s the same as being brainwashed by other people!”

"Why not brainwashing?"

Ian asked back: "When you communicate with a person, you directly agree with the other person's argument without thinking about it - just because you like what the person says, or you like the appearance of the person talking - —To agree so easily with other people’s words and opinions without thinking about the deeper meaning behind them, and without thinking about the true origin, meaning and purpose behind all these remarks.”

"Then why can't we say that he was simply brainwashed by other people's words?"

With that said, Ian Silverfeng stood up.

The fifth-level powerhouse, the Edge of the Falling Sun, Grand Duke Silver Peak stood in front of Marquis Grant. The fiery, but overwhelming, dark momentum swept around Marquis Grant, making him unable to even tremble for a moment. By the time, the whole person was completely frozen on the sofa.

【If I give an order】

Ian's voice sounded again: [Then will you obey? 】

[If you obey, have you been brainwashed by me? Otherwise, why don't you offer other opinions? 】

[If you disobey, have you been brainwashed by other inexplicable things? Otherwise, why would you dare to disobey me who has fifth-level power? 】

Grant couldn't move.

At this moment, he felt that all the spiritual energy of the surrounding time and space, and even the ether, had been taken away, and the sublimation organs in his body could not even operate, making him a useless person who could hardly even move - and It will be even worse for ordinary people, because even their remaining ability to think will disappear and they will completely become unconscious zombies.

Grant struggled to turn his head away and looked at his child, but he was shocked to find that little Kemet was not feeling any discomfort at all, and was still blinking her big sea-blue eyes, looking at the 'teacher' who suddenly stood up and the sudden 'Father' collapsed on the sofa.

Marquis Grant suddenly understood what Ian meant.

"I see."

Marquis Grant sighed: "Ian... you are gentler than anyone else, and you are more eager than anyone else to let human beings gain true free will... But because of this, in your eyes, our current Terra, the entire Terra, I'm afraid No one can pursue their own freedom."

He slowly tried to sit up straight, gritted his teeth and said, "What exactly is the growth you choose? I see... Then I understand."

"Ian, your technology really needs children like Kemet to experiment, because only children with such a blank slate naturally need to 'learn'... and learning is something that children living in human society cannot do. To avoid obligations, they must learn how to enter the adult world and learn various skills and thinking patterns, a kind of 'brainwashing' in a loose sense."

"I understand. As long as it is not a forced indoctrination of personality, or a direct input of personality seeds that does not require my children to think for themselves and cannot be changed, I agree."

"Yeah. Your approval is just one part of it."

Slowly sitting back, Ian did not intend to embarrass Marquis Grant. He just intended to let the other party understand that when faced with an absolutely powerful force, whatever the strong said was all brainwashing of the weak.

When a human being begins to grieve, to suffer, to be angry and disappointed at the words of another human being, he becomes that one's slave.

On the other hand, isn’t it joy and joy?

The most fundamental difference is whether you have various emotions because of 'this person's words', or whether you display various emotions because this person's behavior meets 'my expectations'.

The former is submission, the latter is understanding.

When facing a strong person, even if you are forced to submit and go against your own heart, you must understand why what the other person does is unacceptable to you, and why you should oppose the other person's actions, not just because of what he said. Everyone is against it'. In the same way, even if you are forced to submit, you must understand whether you are forbearing to save your life or for a greater goal, or because you respect the other person more than you recognize your own ideas, not just because the other person is forcing you. , can kill himself, so he succumbs.

Even if you surrender for the sake of your life, you have to think about why what you do is a submission rather than an approval. The kind of "persistence" that cannot be changed even if it is life-threatening is the real free will.

Only by thinking mainly with 'I' can people understand themselves and then understand others. Otherwise, they will not be able to empathize and think from others' perspective - because they don't even know what they are thinking and just obey others. Just a slave.

"Kemite, everything is about you. The things you want are yours. And the things I said you should have are not things you really need. "

Looking sideways at his students, Ian did not expect the children to understand his words: "In the future, I will assign you some tasks, and you can complete them or not. If you complete them, there will be no reward. If you don’t complete it, there will be no punishment.”

"But whether you are willing or unwilling, you must explain 'your thoughts' to me. Why you think about it and why you don't want to. I hope you can understand the root of 'your thoughts'."

"Only in this way... I can build a set of 'moral algorithms' and a set of 'thinking models' with you as the core."

"Komete..."

After saying this, Ian smiled and stretched out his hand, pinched the face of the child who although he didn't understand but was listening attentively, he said softly: "Although you don't understand yet."

"But a brand new society may start under your name."

"I...although I don't understand the teacher's words, and I don't know what to do is right, but I will work hard!"

At this moment, Kemit also smiled: "Because the teacher smiles very nicely now, I also feel that the teacher is a very good person and takes good care of me. So I am willing to listen!"

"Haha." Ian couldn't help laughing. He touched the child's head: "Yes, although it is still a bit simple and shallow, this is the 'reason' why you are willing to listen to me, not just because I am yours." 'teacher'."

"Also, being willing to say the words 'I don't understand' and 'I don't know' is one of the best virtues in the world, keep it up."

I want to be a scientist, I want to be a big star, I want to play games all day and night, I want to be a good person with wisdom and conscience.

These wishes are all equivalent.

No matter whether it is noble or vulgar, it is not a bad thing to yearn for the sublime, envy wealth or desire for happiness.

The only focus is on how to persevere and achieve.

If you cannot persevere, you will not be able to determine your dreams and move towards the future you want... This is the most important 'self-will' of human beings, the so-called virtue of 'persistence'.

This is where Ian's technique differs from school education and training in training camps.

In the current Terra, you can refuse school, refuse training camp, give up all these, follow your own will, and choose the possibility of 'bad failure' in the eyes of others. ,

At the very least, there is a possibility of regret.

But if it is Ian's technology that starts, there is no possibility of going back - once the personality transformation begins, the person being transformed will not have any thoughts of 'wanting to go back to the past'.

"So be it."

Ian found that the most important thing about his plan of "artificial saints" is that the condition of "persistence" cannot be put into the thinking model.

The perseverance and persistence endowed by others are not real virtues, but a kind of numbness.

"Persistence" must be something people insist on voluntarily. Whether they are transforming themselves or doing anything, "persistence" originates from the most fundamental desire in the human heart and represents the foundation of "self-choice."

It's like training forced by others, doing questions and exercising, as long as there is no force from others, it will disappear immediately.

In the same way, the same goes for ‘work’ in order to survive. As long as you have money, you will give up, instead of really wanting to do it, so as to achieve your dreams.

On the earth in Ian's previous life, work was something that you could do without if you wanted to. It had nothing to do with survival, but only related to self-recognition... No matter how difficult and painful it was, it was still one's perseverance.

The so-called ‘self-belief’ is the root of such an ‘absolute self’.

——As long as you can rely on yourself to achieve the sublimation of your own thinking and personality...then there may not be any obstacles to advancing to the third energy level in the future.

——After all, this is how I have reshaped myself. Both my body and my soul are one and the same, as solid as gold...it is the foundation of future immortality.

——I see, the gate to the third energy level is right here...

Ian knows very well that today's arcane path can already create sublimators of the first and second levels... and now it seems that even the road that allows everyone to lead to the third level has been gradually opened by him. The door.

This is the further step on the path of arcana.

Ian's exchange with Marquis Grant is over.

This time, Marquis Grant came here originally to send his children to be students at Ian's place. It was also regarded as the hostage delivered by the Grant family to Grand Duke Yinfeng.

As for the transformation of the South China Sea Labyrinth and various policies, Marquis Grant has no reason to refuse at all. He has long agreed to Ian's development plan. The specific details will be handled by specific departments, and they, the senior superiors, do not have to deal with it. .

Next, Ian can focus more on another very important thing.

That is, the early publicity for Feiyandi.

Now, Ian's plan to conquer the areas under the Absalom bloodline has been put on the agenda, and naturally the entire territory has to work for this.

It's not about force. In this era, no one will send troops to conquer other people. The biggest responsibility of the force is actually to maintain law and order, rescue and provide disaster relief, and build local fortifications.

But while others were transforming force units into local vigilante units, Ian formed an entirely new unit.

It’s called the ‘Army of Public Opinion’.

This army will not do anything related to force. All they have to do is to use the resources of the Silver Peak Territory to help the merchants of the Silver Peak Territory and bring all the 'beautiful' parts of the Silver Peak Territory to people far away. other people.

Coke, delicious food, convenient props...beautiful clothes, durable and practical clothes...jeans, stockings, various designs with new aesthetics (all copied from the earth)...

Silver peak collar, absolutely does not hide any of its beauty.

On the contrary, it wants to show - to show everyone - to show its power, its beauty, all its splendor and beauty.

In this era where civilians have basically no entertainment aesthetics, everything created by Yinfeng Ling is an absolute dimension-reducing blow to any national power.

The public opinion army will not subvert any forces and will never promote any rebellious ideas. They have only one goal.

That is, let everyone know everything about Yinfeng collar.

Then……

Read Yin Fengling’s novels.

Eat Silver Peak collar food.

Wear clothes with a silver peak collar.

Watch Yinfengling's movies.

Play the Silver Peak collar game.

I envy everything that Yinfeng leads.

Then, a seed is planted in their hearts.

"——It would be great if I was also the leader of Silver Peak."

This is the real subtle spiritual attack... Human beings' own inner yearning is the most powerful brainwashing.

My health has been really bad lately, so I can only update slowly.

I don’t dare to say how much I can write next month. I can only try my best to ensure that there are updates every day. I may also ask for leave. Please forgive me...