Chapter 506 The road ahead
As a ninja with outstanding reputation and great prospects, as his strength becomes stronger, there are more and more roads to choose from in front of Daimaru.
The higher you go, the fewer predecessors can be used for reference. How to ensure that you do not become a slave to power while moving steadily, but protect yourself and not be distorted by external forces becomes a problem that cannot be ignored.
After finishing the matter quickly, Daimaru changed into a slender light blue robe, took off his forehead, and walked on the street of Awaji Village Nagata like an ordinary business trip.
The winter is already deep, and the southwest winds throughout the year occasionally intersect with the cold currents from the south, forming a rare seasonal rain.
Not long ago, this area had a long-lost rain, which moistened a little green sand.
The latitude of the South Coast is significantly lower than that of Sand Village. It is rare to encounter snowfall once in a hundred years. Even if the temperature drops, I feel a little cool.
The wind was a little strong, but the air after the rain was still fresh. People coming and going were generally full of vitality on their faces, which was obviously different from those outsiders who had just come here to make a living.
"The people who come and go are too complicated, not as simple as those in the Sand Village..."
Qian, who was next to Damaru, complained in a low voice that foreigners from all over the world, their living habits, customs, values, beliefs, etc. are very different, and conflicts can easily arise if they are not careful.
During this period, in order to deal with these trivial matters, Qianwu was very worried. The village was first built and it was difficult to assign others to some things. Fortunately, as time went by, Daimaru's subordinates also had some experience and were able to take on some less important positions.
but……
"simple?"
Daimaru smiled, disagreed.
"This word has little to do with the rich and poor, education or not, whether it is kind. The Sand Village is an acquaintance society; while in Awaji Village, it is a stranger society, and the two are very different..."
Just like Damaru's previous life, many urban people had extremely polarized impressions of rural people. Some believed that rural people were simple and hospitality; while the other was the prejudice of poor mountains, bad waters and many unruly people.
Both of these views are biased. There are great problems in measuring the right and wrong of another way of life by adapting to the values of one way of life.
If you are used to living in an apartment building, you don’t know each other at the opposite side, and your neighbors in the same village who visit each other from time to time, you will have serious misunderstandings based on a set of standards.
Pointing at the bargaining trading ground not far away, Daimaru explained to Chih:
"On one side are the noble servants who came to buy from the Northern Bird Country, and on the other side are the business travelers who came across the sea from the Tea Country. What do you think they can have in common? It would be nice to complete the transaction safely without arguing. In the hidden village of Sand, you either look up and see acquaintances who look down or be friends who are relatives and friends who are twisting and turns. The worldly style is always inevitable. The flexibility of the rules is much greater, and the way of dealing with people is relatively smooth. But here, it is difficult to understand the nature of both parties, and you may be able to see this in your life. Turning around means separation. The cost of connections and reputation that requires cheating is extremely small, and people will be able to do bad things will rise..."
Qian was silent for a while and said with a sigh:
"The environment makes people's hearts worse, and morality does not exist..."
Daimaru sneered:
"What's this? You've never seen a real human heart that is not old, what is a moral decline like..."
Compared to the society in which the material life was richer in the previous life, but the view of good and evil was disastrous, people in the ninja world were really innocent and simple.
Qian retorted with some amusement:
"Didn't you also grow up in Sand Village? Have you ever seen a worse living environment? It's really hard to imagine what it looks like..."
"I laugh at kindness as cowardice, praise the cleverness of speaking without trust, despise honesty as stupidity, envy those who are arrogant and trampling on the rules, and enjoy the weak, but are afraid to say no to the strong... There are many more, many evils of human nature that you can't even imagine, twisting society into an unsatisfactory appearance..."
"This...it sounds bad!"
Qian responded unexpectedly.
Originally, I just said it casually, but I didn't expect Damaru would really answer seriously.
"Yes! So I like this world very much..."
Although there are a few people who are not good at brains and are easily fooled to do evil, and there are also a few crazy people who deviate from human nature, most ordinary people, including ninjas, are still very kind.
Even if some people do evil, most of them can realize that they are doing bad things, their morality has not been completely broken, and their values have not been officially lost, because ninjas with extraordinary power have actually suppressed the space for capital to do evil. They laugh at the poor but not at prostitutes, and are not ashamed of being proud of profit-oriented society.
"Just think you've seen it in your dream!"
Anyway, it's just chatting, exploring the Tao with ease,
"Then what do you think should be what humans should look like?"
"This problem is quite big, and I can't say it well..."
Daimaru said after thinking about it,
"In my opinion, how to face up to the instincts in human nature can achieve sublimation and improvement..."
"Beyond? Didn't you say that you should fight instincts, which is the key to distinguishing humans and animals?"
Daimaru shook his head and explained:
"The instinct of confrontation is only the basis. Human beings need to face it, but cannot be swallowed by instincts, and human nature becomes animal nature. We cannot eradicate instincts, such as reproduction, without it, human beings will become extinct..."
"So, should we pursue higher levels of transcendence?"
"That's what I think!"
Damaru nodded and confirmed Qian's point of view.
“How to do it?”
"This...I don't know either!"
Most of the so-called "transcendence" only stays at the level of confrontation, and eventually becomes a sensational practice of pretending to be a god and a successful scholar.
Damaru has just considered this thing a little bit. For real research, professional philosophers with IQs of more than 200 need to think about how to define the scope of human nature and silently expand territory for mankind in unknown fields.
Seeing that Daimaru was also defeated, Qian covered his mouth and laughed:
"Seeing how busy you look every day, and still have time to consider these messy things? How good is it to spare time to practice..."
Daimaru shrugged and said:
"When you are so strong that I understand, the wisdom and achievements obtained from thinking are much greater than the improvement of blind practice..."
Chapter completed!