vrcanaries Chapter 156 Cradle Project
Chapter 156 Cradle Project
The failure of the Cradle Project dealt a significant psychological blow to the Trisolarans.
Even the usually composed Trisolaran leader was somewhat unsettled upon hearing this news.
"It was intentional. Lin Xuan definitely did it on purpose. How could someone with such a wicked personality be so malicious?"
The Cradle Project is a long-term plan by the Trisolarans targeting the entire Earth and human civilization. They expect to complete their cultural invasion of humanity within 30 years at the earliest.
This plan was formulated around year 1 of the Deterrence Era, and it has five specific aspects.
First, it presents itself as a friendly sophon and uses humanities, arts, and film to change and numb humanity's hostility toward the Trisolaran world.
Secondly, it provides humans with a large number of service technologies, increasing human laziness.
Third, it involves revising or interfering with the history textbooks of human civilization, so that people gradually forget the humiliating history of the two hundred years of the Crisis Era.
Fourth, large-scale funding is allocated to support effeminate celebrities to dominate society, making people worship these celebrities and embrace effeminate aesthetics, thereby altering their social structure and causing the complete disappearance of men from society.
Fifth, we should raise the banner of interstellarism, cultivate a group of people who can think from the perspective of the development of interstellar civilization, shake their political stance, and label simple patriots or lovers of humanity as having narrow-minded ideas.
The Cradle Project launches a comprehensive attack from five aspects: politics, economy, culture, history, and ideology, aiming to completely eradicate the resistance consciousness of humanity on Earth and dismantle the absolute dominance of the Earth Federation from within.
In order to carry out this plan, the leader risked being assimilated by civilization and introduced a large number of humanistic and artistic works and social systems from human civilization for the Trisolaran civilization to learn from and imitate.
The goal is to complete the long-term strategy of cultural invasion as soon as possible within 30 years.
As it turns out, Lin Xuan is absolutely wicked!
He must have discovered the Trisolarans' intention to invade culture more than a decade ago, but he simply neither stopped nor interfered.
After the Trisolarans painstakingly spent over a decade mastering the knowledge of human civilization, he then allowed a large number of hawkish representatives to participate in the governance of the Earth Federation.
Isn't this just plain disgusting?
The most prominent characteristic of cultural invasion is its insidious nature, gradually destroying a civilization like a frog being slowly boiled in water.
However, this is also the drawback: the premise of peaceful evolution is that you must have a thorough understanding of the enemy's culture and absolute confidence in your own culture.
The Cradle Project cannot be completed if either of these two aspects is missing.
The problem with the Trisolarans lies here: they are too familiar with human civilization and culture, but they have no confidence in their own culture.
Such cultural invasion is very dangerous because once the enemy realizes that you are peacefully evolving, cultural invasion will be difficult to achieve its purpose, and may even backfire due to the groundwork laid in the early stages.
It's like finally scraping together enough money to build a bunch of suicide trucks, only to have someone just fire a shell and blow up your suicide trucks in your own home – it's disgusting.
In an ideological confrontation, a civilization's confidence in its own culture is the first thing that needs to be undermined. If the people do not lose their confidence in their own culture, then subsequent cultural invasion and infiltration efforts will become meaningless.
The Trisolarans have also used similar tactics in the history of human civilization.
Back in the UN General Assembly era, the US had been trying to launch a peaceful evolution against socialist-type countries.
The first step in peaceful evolution is not cultural infiltration, but cultural questioning.
Simply infiltrating is useless if you don't undermine their cultural confidence. Only when people question their culture and lose confidence in it can you achieve complete ideological suppression.
"We must dig out the roots of their culture, vulgarize and eliminate the foundations of their spirit and morality. In this way, we will shake their fanatical belief in human civilization generation after generation, and make them question human history. We must focus our work on destroying the minds of young people, so that humanity will forever remain in the cradle of infancy. This is the Cradle Project!"
But now, the plan that had been brewing for 20 years has been completely aborted, which undoubtedly makes the Trisolaran leader and his officials feel like they've swallowed a fly.
In this ideological clash, the Trisolarans lost completely. They racked their brains but never expected that Lin Xuan would leave them with such a trick up her sleeve.
If you had any trump cards, you should have used them sooner. Why did you have to drag it out until now? Are you deliberately trying to annoy us?
It took the leader a while to recover from his anger. Lin Xuan's actions were infuriating, provided, of course, that the Trisolarans had that organ.
"Lin Xuan, this guy really deserves to die!"
"Without dealing with him, none of our plans can proceed. He always manages to guess our plans before anyone else. This guy really has the talent to be a wallbreaker."
Upon hearing this, the assembled officials nodded in agreement.
At times like this, whatever the leader says goes. The Cradle Project died in its infancy, and dealing with it afterward will be a very troublesome matter. Who knows which unlucky person will end up taking the blame?
"How's the weapon research going?" The head of state suddenly looked at the science governor, who was startled and quickly reported back.
"It's...it's already finished, but it hasn't been tested yet."
"There's no time. Send it directly to Zhizi and tell her to act as soon as possible."
"Yes... I'll take care of it right away."
With that, the science official fled the scene as if escaping.
Although being questioned by the head of state is a bit scary, it's better than staying there and taking the blame.
As predicted, the backlash from the failure of the Cradle Project quickly spread throughout the Trisolaran society.
In order to confront humanity ideologically, a large number of Trisolarans in the Trisolaran society painstakingly studied human culture, especially Yun Tianming's fairy tales, which were eagerly sought after under the instruction of the higher-ups.
And now, Yun Tianming's fairy tales have truly become assimilation stories.
After learning of the complete failure of the Cradle Project, the Trisolaran society developed serious doubts about the culture of its own civilization.
As for why they don't build cultural confidence to resist this backlash?
That requires the premise that it already exists!
The Trisolarans' technological development has always been skewed. Although they are a Level 2 civilization, they are far inferior in the humanities and arts.
They simply cannot stop the backlash from this culture.
Soon, a class revolution broke out within the Trisolaran world, with the Trisolarans, who had always been in a lower social position, launching a rebellion against the upper echelons.
We are all Trisolarans, and our brainwaves are even interconnected, which proves that most Trisolarans have the same level of knowledge. In this respect, humans are even inferior to us.
If that's the case, why do you think you can ride roughshod over us?
Why should we, the lower classes, obediently hand over our resources to those officials?
Why should our job duties be predetermined from the moment we are born?
Just like the rebellion in Rick and Morty, it happened.
The Trisolarans began to doubt the legitimacy of their own political system, a question that the Trisolarans of the past would never have even considered.
In their view, it is normal to be assigned a fixed job from birth, since everyone spends their life like that.
However, now that they have witnessed human civilization and learned from its historical experience of overthrowing feudal dynasties, they have also experienced serious internal conflicts.
The rebels formed quickly. They first captured three starports, which were the construction bases of the Trisolaran Second Fleet. Then they seized control of some defensive celestial bodies located within stars, which they used to blackmail the Trisolaran governors.
The internal rebellion was led by a group of Trisolaran scholars who had been in charge of the Cradle Project. After learning that the Cradle Project had failed, they completely let loose and angrily cursed the governor who had formulated the project, saying that he should be dragged out and thrown into the Chaotic Era to be burned alive.
The following is an excerpt from a report by a frontline journalist.
"Although the Cradle of Human Civilization project has failed, our scholars remain deeply attached to their former workplaces, accompanying the project to its very end. Let's interview these scholars on site and see what they have to say."
"Fuck you, give me my money back!"
"Um... Scholar, please don't get agitated. I know you scholars are somewhat disappointed with the governors' plans, but our confrontation with human civilization has only just begun. We still have a chance..."
"It's over!"
"Um... don't be so discouraged. After all, according to estimates, it will take about a hundred years for human civilization to surpass us in technology. We may still have a chance to maintain our technological lead."
"Can we stay ahead forever? Can we stay ahead for another 100 years? We can't stay ahead, it's going to be very blue."
"Okay, let's end our interview here for now."
Ultimately, the rebellion was quelled after lasting approximately three months.
It was only after three of the twelve consuls were executed by order of the head of state that the internal pressure from the masses was stabilized and prevented from completely erupting.
Humanity probably never imagined that it would inexplicably and unknowingly kill three Trisolaran governors.