Some scholars put forward the conclusion of the end of history, arguing that there is no possibility of history continuing to develop, and that it is only a repetition of previous steps. Although people have changed, times have changed, but the events are still those events, and there doesn't seem to be much change. So, is history ending or advancing?
It is believed that history is moving forward, and that this progress will inevitably lead to great progress in productivity, a great leap forward in human science and technology, and even in the future, human beings may make their home in space and achieve interstellar travel. The process of civilization seems to be forever moving forward, and there is no backwards. However, it seems that this is not the case in human history, but there will be a big cycle, and even the cycle will be repeated, and it will become the end of history.
What happened in ancient times is still happening now, but the times have changed, the conditions have changed, and the people have changed. After all, human cognition is limited and it is impossible to live forever. The ancients died at a certain age, and so did the contemporaries;The ancients had to eat, drink, and sleep, and so did the contemporariesThe ancients wanted to marry and have children, and so did the present generation;The ancients wanted to record history, and so did the contemporaries;The ancients wanted to divide classes and rule people with power, and the same is true for contemporary people, but in different forms. The history of the ancients is a history of mankind's continuous victory over nature and continuous pursuit of survival. But the feudal society lasted for more than 2,000 years, and there was not much progress, every time the handicraft industry was developed, there would be a foreign invasion, there would be a change of dynasty, and the new dynasty seemed to have become a kind of historical regression, returning to the period of agricultural civilization again, and did not develop a large industrial production model. As a result, economic underdevelopment has led to a cycle of repetition, resulting in a historical cycle.
Almost all dynasties maintained a small-scale peasant economy to ensure that people could survive, but they did not actively explore the road of science and technology, nor did they solve problems in terms of political system, but followed the admonition that "the law of the ancestors is immutable", followed the rules and regulations of the previous dynasty, and revised and reformed to make a system that adapted to the needs of the current dynasty. In this way, the progress of feudal society is not very large, and even just repeatedly emphasizing the social needs of food and clothing, and emphasizing the concept of contentment and happiness, it is not enterprising.
In the era of capitalism, the material abundance of society, people's desires were amplified, and the demand continued to increase, and many new items appeared, but people were still flesh, and they did not become the incorruptible body of King Kong, nor did they realize the unity of the world. How should people live, even fighting for homesteads, fighting for children's schooling, competing for commercial interests, and intriguing for superiors. And these things have appeared in ancient times, and they have appeared again and again, and they still can't be solved. Is it because of the selfishness of human nature?There are, of course, reasons for this. The limitations of human nature are also the limits of social development. When the Internet pays attention to the spirit of free and sharing, many people see hope, but soon the Internet is controlled by capital and becomes the leading force of the Internet economy, which drives economic development. Once the Internet drives economic development, it will no longer be completely free, but will become a capital operation thing, constantly evolving, constantly circulating, but it will never be completely free. It's as if the social economy has always evolved after being controlled by capital, but it can never achieve a harmonious society. It looks like evolution, but it's actually a cycle.
History is like this, as long as it is made up of human beings, there will be great limitations, and there will even be many events that are strikingly similar to history. In ancient times, when the heroes were competing with each other, they bullied the small with the big and pursued the law of the social jungle, but now, some countries still have not escaped such a fate, and are still bullying the small with the big, and they want to fight and plunder resources and wealth. In this way, human beings seem to be a special species that parasitizes the earth, and they are also creatures that treat the earth as an ecological sphere. When it reaches a certain level of quantity, it will be automatically attritional. This attrition can be achieved through disease, tsunamis, drought, floods, locust plagues, car accidents, war, etc., and war is the most powerful means of attrition. As long as human beings can maintain a certain amount, they can continue to use natural resources and survive. If the number of human beings continues to grow, sooner or later the earth's resources will face a crisis.
Human beings have gone to great lengths to obtain resources. After the development of natural resources, human beings seem to meet the needs of their own development, but they still have to continue to develop and utilize them, so as to maintain a life with high energy consumption and maintain the driving force needed for the development of industrial civilization. In this way, this kind of development seems a bit crazy, and it is better to develop it more slowly than in ancient times. But history cannot be repeated, it can only move forward. Believers in technological innovation believe that sooner or later, humanity will develop tools to harness interstellar resources in order to continuously obtain cheap energy for human development. Believe that the future is good, but history does not seem to move forward, but rather in a circle. Some clues can be seen from the centralized rule of some countries;From the records in some history books, we can also see some clues. After all, history is only written by the victors, it is one-sided, and it also bears ideological traces, and it does not seem to be very promising, and there is not much ...... progress