Species evolution is actually the process of physiological traits changing to follow survival strategies. As soon as the survival strategies of organisms originally belonging to the same species have become very different, you can expect different subspecies to diverge even if the physiological traits have not yet finished changing.

This is true of organisms, and it is also true of people.

What modern man will evolve into is determined by his lifestyle (survival strategy).

The basis of social change is the change of man. The basis for the evolution of civilization is the evolution of man.

And the evolution of man, from ancient man to modern man, from violent to peaceful, from barbaric to civilized, from injurious, predatory, exploitative to productive, creative, is accomplished in the seemingly plain and trivial daily life.

We are always being shaped by our lives.

From our mother's womb into the family, from the family into the school, from the school into the society, from the countryside into the city, from this organization into that company, from one industry into another, we are constantly adapting and learning. Along with the richness of life experience, along with the accumulation of knowledge, skills enhancement, every day we are becoming a different person and their own starting point in life.

Each of us is being shaped by our own lives, and we are creating ourselves out of all our trivial life choices.

We are our own authors and our own creations.

The history of civilization is no different from the history of individuals.

Civilizations are, essentially, human survival strategies.

The evolution of civilization is the development and refinement of human survival strategies.

And like individuals, civilizations are equally created by and create life.

If you want to change a person, the most effective means is not to persuade him bitterly, but to change his life. For example, if you give your child a new school and a new upbringing, if you allow an adult to change a city or a country, or a flat or a job, you will see the personal change you want to achieve when the new life exerts a powerful shaping force.

If you want to change a group of people, if you want to change a culture, if you want to change a community or a society, the most effective means is likewise to change its life.

If you want to turn savages into civilized people, ancient people into modern people, if you want to make a violent and ignorant group of people become polite, the most effective means is not force.

It is to make the civilized way of life profitable for every one of them, to break up the chain of interests that keeps the barbarism going, and to replace it with the rules of the game that lead to goodness.

This is not at all difficult to understand, and has been confirmed by the history of civilization up to the present time.

And it's not that complicated to apply it to the realpolitik problems of today's world.

Let the chain extend to the region you want to change, so that people who have developed a reverence for violence in the harm chain system and a sense of the rules of the harm chain of exporting harm to seek reward become accustomed to exporting labor to seek paychecks in their daily lives, quietly accepting the infiltration of the logic of the chain.

The person who used to identify with the underdog becomes more identified with fair trade.

That person's core cultural genes are then altered.

Whether one identifies more with the weak and the strong or with fair trade, whether one respects the law of the jungle or the modern rule of law, is the key to distinguishing barbarism from civilization.

In human society, whether more people identify with the law of the jungle or with fair trade is the key to distinguishing the attributes of a society's civilization.

If you wish for world peace and look forward to no regression in civilization, if you want to live in a more civilized country, if you yourself want to become a more civilized person, a better person, and if you wish to make more civilized and better friends, you need to know how to discern the core components of your cultural genes, and you need to realize that the way of earning a living that enables people to become more and more identified with fair trade and more and more disgusted with the weak and strong is the way to the powerful lever that pushes the wheels of civilization forward.

Modern people are molded and educated by the modern way of making a living.

Overly ancient ways of earning a living can only mold "modern people" who are infinitely close to the ancients.

In areas where ancient ways of earning a living are still dominant, you need to understand why the local people still hold on to ancient ideas, and why so many barbaric and ignorant behaviors continue to take place even after the influx of modern technological products.

In places where the industrial chain is not connected, where the logic of the industrial chain has not yet succeeded in penetrating and replacing ancient traditions, the logic of the chain of harm will not automatically surrender the positions it has already occupied.

Whether it is the Middle East, the remote rural areas of the Communist Party of China, or the tribes in Africa and South America, the dual-chain struggle between the industrial chain and the chain of injury, and the competition between the two core cultural genes are the deep-seated reasons behind the fierce collision between civilization and barbarism, and between modernity and tradition.

Choosing the industrial chain or the chain of injury is actually choosing the direction of development of civilization.

Whether a country chooses to believe in the law of the jungle or fair trade, whether it promotes the law of the jungle or respects the principle of the rule of law and the rule-based international order when dealing with international affairs and internal and external disputes, whether it chooses to keep the country closed or open up to the outside world at the economic level is tantamount to choosing a camp in the context of the era of the dual-chain contention.

Even if this choice is not based on clear strategic foresight, the attitude towards the industrial chain manifested by this choice, the impact on the way of life of most ordinary people generated by the attitude towards the industrial chain, and the shaping of these people by the way of life will naturally lead the society to a certain camp.

My position has always been very clear, I stand for civilization.

I want the industrial chain to grow, I want the logic of the industrial chain to penetrate into all countries and places, and the industrial chain to extend to every corner and change everyone, I want everyone to have the work skills of modern society, to have a stable job and a reasonable income accordingly, I want every child to receive a modern education, and I want the modern way of life to be universally accessible to all over the world.

I respect all religions and all traditions, but I don't believe that respect for tradition qualifies as a reason to prevent ordinary people from enjoying the modern lifestyle I described above.

Let children be able to go to school and adults be able to go to work and you will reap the rewards of a peaceful world.

If any tradition doesn't allow children to go to school and adults to go to work, I suppose it would be logical to abandon it, right?

And here is where the real war is being fought.

Civilization is being thwarted long before the shots ring out on the battlefield.