Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 192 - 193 Small Family and Large Family
Chapter 192: Chapter 193: Small Family and Large Family
Chapter 192: Chapter 193: Small Family and Large Family
On a cold and not so wonderful night.
Lin Xuanyuan was squatting in a corner crying, a bit confused as to why they had awakened her during such a bleak Minor New Year.
Even though the doctor explained, “An accident occurred within the spaceship, and there’s a great need for doctors.” But what work ability could she have with her current psychological state?
She didn’t even have the interest to find out what exactly had happened on the spaceship… Even though time had passed by 179 years, her memory still lingered on the day before she went into hibernation.
Zhang Yuan quietly turned the corner of the hallway and then saw the girl squatting on the ground, crying secretly.
He sighed in his heart. Although the girl was usually lively and cheerful, in reality, she was a girl with an incredibly tender heart…
Somehow, Zhang Yuan thought of something else.
He remembered that more than two thousand years ago, the first time he awoke from hibernation, he encountered Lin Xuanyuan crying in a corner. Back then, their interstellar journey had just begun, and how difficult those days were, along with a series of “companionship policies”, and then Zhang Yuan stupidly stayed by her side for half a day.
Now, there was a similar corner and a similar scene.
But in the blink of an eye, the entire three-thousand-year journey was almost coming to an end. The next time they awoke from hibernation, they would be able to see the new Mother Star, and at the thought of this, Zhang Yuan’s heart beat even more joyfully.
“Cough cough… Hey!” Zhang Yuan feigned a cough and realized that the other party, immersed in her sorrow, did not respond to him…
He pondered for a moment and then suddenly went over and rubbed her head, “Don’t cry, what about this… I’ll treat you to some aged beef jerky!”
Hearing this familiar voice, Lin Xuanyuan incredulously lifted her head and was struck dumb.
“Guess what happened? The Aliens sent me back. Do you believe it?”
Zhang Yuan said with a smile.
Tears had already blurred her vision; the familiar smile was like a mirage.
She couldn’t help but reach out to grasp…
And she actually caught hold of him!
Zhang Yuan gently held her in his embrace, only to feel a bite on his arm and then cried out in pain, “Ow, ow, ow… What are you doing! If you think you’re dreaming, you should bite yourself, not me!”
…
Strictly speaking, Zhang Yuan had always felt that love wasn’t a very reliable thing. The vows between lovers, even God would take them as a joke…
According to scientific research, love is controlled by hormones, with the concentration of dopamine reaching its peak for 6 months to 4 years, depending on the individual and environment. As the concentration of dopamine decreases and disappears, all passion will turn into calmness.
Therefore, love is a kind of genetic instinct, demanding more and broader pathways for reproduction, leading to people’s behaviors of liking the new and loathing the old. Human nature is fickle, and that can’t be changed.
In contrast, what is more reliable is familial love, a kind of tolerant, peaceful, and mutually dependent friendly relationship. Familial love, too, is an instinct, evolved from the harsh living conditions of ancient times.
Familial love is not just controlled by hormones, but also by other things, such as memories, habits, and so on.
Zhang Yuan felt that the affection between him and Lin Xuanyuan had slowly evolved into a kinship. They had been together for so many years, with pleasant interactions and basically no conflicts—a very stable and reliable relationship.
Although there were no children…
But the absence of children did not affect the trust between the two…
Hence, Zhang Yuan silently lay on the bed and thought of many new things, such as the “social upbringing system” proposed by the late Captain Lin.
Severing the kinship between people was absolutely unreliable; a person with no attachments or restraints could easily develop various psychological issues. Without kinship, people are like kites with broken strings, not knowing where they will end up flying.
So, if private childbirth were prohibited and children were raised by society, one would need to artificially establish a more reliable foundational social system to replace the original family structure based on blood ties.
This system was called “small family and large family.”
After genetic testing, four infants with complementary personalities and a lower probability of conflict would be raised together from infancy to form a small family. Because they would grow up together, the connections between them would be very close.
At the same time, units of twenty would form a class and create a large family. Although the connections within a large family were not as close as those of a small family, they were still relatively tight.
The social upbringing system tried to use such institutions to replace the original family structure based on blood ties. Of course, the system did not prohibit adults from forming new families, but it simply did not allow for the direct birth of infants.
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Some sociologists believed that the absence of children would lead to an unstable family structure for couples, causing family members to lose their sense of responsibility. But this was not true. If someone cheated because there were “no children” at home, they were merely seeking a self-comforting excuse. Even with children, such a person would still cheat.
Moreover, the costs of divorce due to children only brewed more family tragedies…
“Families without children, after discovering infidelity and choosing divorce, ended up separating more cleanly and with fewer messes… Alas.”
These ethical conundrums, when converted into mathematics, posed an undoubtedly huge challenge and could only yield a delicate probability. Various institutions were idyllic in planning, but their actual implementation was very complicated, and their effectiveness was still unknown…
“All in all, social upbringing solves systemic corruption,” Zhang Yuan sighed deeply. “As long as there is no network of kinship, collapse-style corruption is hard to occur, which can also ensure the purity of civilization.”
After pondering all this, he glanced at Lin Xuanyuan sleeping beside him and then drifted off into a heavy sleep…
The next morning, while he was sleeping soundly, Zhang Yuan was awakened by a shrill ringing.
Picking up the communicator, it turned out to be a call from Li Zhendong.
“What’s the deal with disturbing someone’s sweet dream early in the morning?!” Zhang Yuan said irritably.
“It’s not… How exactly do you use that thing?”
“What thing?”
“Of course it’s…”
Zhang Yuan’s heart skipped a beat; those blockheads better not have fled the Hospital in the middle of the night to mess with his “Bozeman Quantum Consciousness Converter.”
Such high technology, if really broken, nobody could possibly repair it!
Even over the phone, faint chaotic discussions could be heard, terms like “metal alloy, Light Stagnation, brainwaves,” and various fervent voices that sounded as if robust men had just seen a woman of unsurpassable beauty!
