Chapter 4371

Suddenly, a hand grabbed Arthur's wrist. Diana shook her head at him in silence, then said, "No, Arthur. This will trigger a hot war. Don't give them this opportunity."

Arthur closed his eyes and sighed. Reason told him that Diana was right. If he flooded Metropolis now and drowned all these damn politicians, it would directly lead to an escalation of the current situation and would definitely trigger a war.

If it were normal times, these factions could put aside their disputes and unite to attack Atlantis. Although it is difficult for humans to attack an underwater kingdom, Atlantis would not easily flood the land, after all, there are ancient relics like the Amazons on land, and their reckless actions would not have good results. So in the end, it would be nothing more than negotiations after several rounds of tug-of-war and probing.

But now it's different. With the election at its most intense moment, everyone is on edge. Whether it's the ruling party or the opposition party, they are all about to be driven crazy. Stabbing them at this time is no different from throwing a firecracker into a fire.

Even if they have to fight a war against a foreign race, they will definitely "settle internal affairs before resisting external aggression." Now they have time to pull back and forth here slowly because there is no external influence. But once there is an urgent matter that needs to be done, they need to decide the winner in a short time, and this is very likely to force them to take some extreme measures. This could lead to a complete split between the two parties, ultimately triggering a hot war.

A hot war breaking out on U. S. soil, even if it's not a total war, just a low-intensity confrontation, will definitely kill many people. Those living at the bottom of the city could not possibly survive in such a situation. Neither Arthur nor Diana wants to see this happen.

The key is that they will definitely blame the culprit who started the war on the foreign race. This will allow these politicians who started the war to escape sanctions. Neither Arthur nor Diana wants to give them this opportunity. If you want to pull back and forth, keep pulling, just don't involve us. And don't even think about making us take the blame for your extreme behavior.

Thinking of the friends and family in Amnesty Bay, Arthur finally calmed down and restrained his impulse to wash them all away with a wave.

They already knew that it was impossible to ask anything from these people. These people could not possibly reflect or correct themselves. Since that was the case, there was no need to waste time with them. Diana took a deep breath, looked at Arthur, and said, "Follow me."

The two left the entrance quickly. As Diana walked, she took out her phone and said, "Bruce is coming to pick us up."

Half an hour later, they also arrived at Wayne Manor. After introducing each other and briefly telling their stories, everyone fell silent.

Before, when they saw some tragic stories, they would think about whether this country had a future; but now, they were more curious about how this country existed at all.

Medical care, scientific research, welfare, military, politics... every aspect of a country is not a shield for the people, but the blades of a huge meat grinder, the purpose of which is to grind everyone into pieces and then excrete them from below.

What's even more absurd is that at every level of this country, down to the homeless, up to the most elite politicians and tycoons, not a single level is at peace.

Many people know that the homeless are not doing well, and those poor people close to the homeless are not doing well. But perhaps few people know that the American middle class and elites are not doing well either.

Of course, they are doing much better than the homeless. But this is a vertical comparison; if you make a horizontal comparison on a global scale, especially compared to countries at the same level of development as the United States, then the American middle class is the most miserable.

Asian countries have high pressure, and European countries have solidified classes. But the middle class in these two regions is much better off than in the United States. Because of high population density, low labor costs, and relatively perfect infrastructure, Asian countries can enjoy convenient services and convenient travel; European countries have high social security and welfare levels, low expenditure on medical care and education, and some countries even have true free medical care, and have a certain safety net mechanism when encountering major accidents.

The life of the American middle class perfectly discards the advantages of both and inherits the disadvantages: high pressure while classes are solidified; high labor costs while facilities are incomplete; medical care is not free, and there is no safety net mechanism. It even goes further, creating community and class segregation, making the anxiety of the middle class break through the sky, dealing a serious blow to their spirit. Whether the body or the spirit collapses first, they will immediately fall to the bottom.

Then will the elite class further up be much better? Actually, no. Racism and white supremacy will give all people of color an invisible ceiling. You will always be blocked there and unable to go up, but you have to bear the various costs of living in the upper-middle class, which leaves you with no room for resistance, and you have to do whatever others say.

Then are white people much better off? Not really. They can be divided into countless different groups through gender and sexual orientation, making you lonely no matter where you stand, never having like-minded people. You can only try every means to socialize and maintain relationships, otherwise, you will fall just the same. So you still have to do things you don't want to do.

Then someone must think that climbing to the top of the pyramid, entering the White House, or topping the Forbes list, becoming the owner of the world's top power and wealth, must be smooth sailing, right?

Sorry, no. Through the shaping of the social atmosphere, the entire country completely cuts off the possibility of top figures having a very harmonious, happy, and flawless family. You are very powerful, but your son, daughter, or friends and family must have problems. Your decades of cultivation of them may be destroyed overnight, and then you have to run around to solve the problem, giving you a double blow in emotion and material.

Not to mention that in the dark forest law and the intense atmosphere of mutual harm, you must be on guard against various opponents at all times. If you are not careful, even the top existence may die on the spot. These top rich people are not even moaning without illness, but really have huge survival pressure. And the manifestation is that they will also speak all kinds of strange remarks like a mental patient. From a psychological point of view, grandstanding is a distress signal.

In short, the dense blades of this huge meat grinder will definitely shave a piece of meat off everyone at every level, it's just a difference in size. It's as if the mission of the state machine is to torture everyone equally.

Someone must think this is the disadvantage of capitalism. But in fact, the United States cannot even be called capitalism. If he seriously engaged in capitalism, it would not be like this now.

The core logic of capitalism is the free market. But the United States has no free market at all. The mutual harm caused by excessive competition between various forces can even disrupt capital operations, leading to the failure to achieve the goal of profit-seeking. After a series of operations, no party is a winner, it is completely a multi-loss.

Thus, a dilapidated train carrying this huge meat grinder runs wildly on a completely out-of-control track, as if the purpose of this collection's existence is to show humans a wrong answer book in the sociological sense, and every sociological trap you can think of can be found here.

Maybe someone wants to ask again: since it's already so bad, why is it still so strong?

In fact, Cat Getan is like a microcosm of the United States: chaotic, evil, like a large mental hospital. However, from a purely sociological point of view, this society is surprisingly healthy.

Using the human body as a metaphor, this is a young man with a very fast metabolism. Although he doesn't distinguish at all what is useful nutrients and what is useless waste, and eliminates everything, as long as the elimination is fast enough, many things that can endanger the foundation of the country will not happen.

And because the blades of this meat grinder are aimed at everyone equally, not letting anyone have a good time, it has achieved a strange balance, and the elimination speed of the upper and lower layers is actually the same.

You think the homeless change every two days, but in the political arena, the speed of power change is about the same; in the scientific community, the elimination speed of technical talent is the same; in the medical industry, the speed of pharmaceutical companies going bankrupt is quite fast; in the insurance industry, there are also companies going bankrupt every day because they can't afford to pay. There is no winner in this war, everyone loses, but it frees up more space for the remaining meat foam.

Thus, it has become such a cycle: all walks of life shrink the circle equally, eliminate a batch of people fixedly, pull up a batch of people, and then eliminate them. In this way, there is always enough living space.

A healthy society does not necessarily mean there will be healthy humans, these are two concepts. So although everyone is being tortured equally, society can still maintain stability and exist in a deformed but healthy way.

No sociologist can provide a perfect explanation for this phenomenon. This is why Cat Getan is a microcosm of the United States, because the editor can't explain it either, so he attributes this phenomenon to a "dark curse." This actually reflects the "Indian curse" circulating among the American people.

During this period of silence, everyone was thinking: is such a society worth saving? Even if there is, can it really be saved?

The power of this kind of society is that killing people is useless.

The speed at which you kill people may not keep up with the speed at which the meat grinder rotates. You kill all the politicians in the Capitol building, and a new batch will come up immediately, doing whatever they should do, people are used to it.

You kill all the military personnel who make trouble, and young officers will immediately take office, doing human experiments or not treating people as people. It's not that they are bad or conservative, but under this system, they can only not treat people as people, otherwise, they will be the ones who die.

You go to rectify the medical or insurance industry, and if you make the companies that don't pay you go bankrupt, then new companies will immediately seize the market, and the terms will be set as they should be, and they will not pay as they should not. Whoever is kind will die.

That is to say, unless you destroy the entire United States and clear the American continent, killing more people is useless. The inertia of the whole society will bring things back to the starting point. And this kind of killing will only make people bear the infamy in vain.

After some thinking, everyone confirmed one thing, that is, complete killing or complete salvation is not very possible, at least they can't do it. So is it possible to just make this society a little better?

You can't get a hundred points, getting sixty points is fine. After all, it was only six points before, and raising it to the passing line is a huge improvement.