"China is a sleeping lion, once awakened, it will shock the world", this is said to be said by Napoleon. In fact, he only knows one thing and does not know the other-a series of recent sensational incidents have made Wakanda, a small country in the hinterland of Central Africa, a big name. When the Panthers slid their arms and twisted their waists on the streets of Seoul, and used his priceless claws to tear apart the car roof and capture the notorious international arms dealer Klau alive, the ignorant Western society suddenly realized: original In addition to a sleeping lion, there is a sleeping leopard hiding in this world!
The population in closed state, tribal chiefdom, agriculture and animal husbandry accounted for the vast majority... Regardless of which aspect is considered, Wakanda is eligible to be included in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency's aid list.
Magnetic levitation, stealth jets, remote sensing simulation control technology, and inexhaustible rare metal deposits... No matter which factor is judged, Wakanda has the technological strength and resource advantages that make the superpower embarrassed.
The above-mentioned contradictory situation is interesting enough, and the recent court coup almost made this magical land a source of "world revolution". In any case, the prosperity and crisis of the Wakanda Kingdom are no longer confined to regional affairs in the interior of Africa, and its influence will inevitably spread to the entire world.
The Mystery of Prosperity: How did Wakanda Black Technology come about?
According to official accounts, in ancient times, a huge meteorite fell from the sky, and the rare metal "vibration" of outer space it contained brought miracles to the Wakanda region of Africa. The local indigenous people discovered the magical characteristics of "Zhenjin", and with this resource as the core, self-reliant, arduous entrepreneurship, and independently developed a whole set of breathtaking "Zhenjin technology system". It is precisely by virtue of this black technology originally created by blacks in Black Africa that the Wakanda Kingdom has an extraordinary level of civilization and living standards, and even the Western world, which claims to be the center of human civilization, is stunned.
In Wakanda, you can enjoy the beauty of the future city. Rows of beautiful buildings gleam in the mountains and valleys, and maglev trains, jets and skimming boats controlled by an unmanned driving system shuttle between them. The whole city seems not to be in Africa, nor on the earth, but from an alien fantasy.
In Wakanda, you can also enjoy the pristine natural scenery. The mountains are verdant and the waterfalls hang in the lake, rhinos and zebras are eating and walking leisurely on the green grassy hillside, quietly watching the acacia trees in the distance are dyed crimson by the setting sun. The people of Wakanda are simple and honest. They are based on tribes, abide by ancient customs and traditions, and mostly engage in pollution-free agriculture and animal husbandry. Metropolitan diseases such as noise, pollution, traffic jams and crime rates seem to be insulated from here. As the saying goes, "Wakanda, a paradise on earth, is beautiful and capable. If you are lucky enough to come and die, there will be no complaints."
So here comes the problem. In a place where tribal chiefdom is popular, in a country where the vast majority of the population is engaged in the primary industry, how to support and run a high-tech future society?
As we all know, there are many factors that affect the development of science and technology. One of the most critical factors is the social environment. International exchanges, communication, cooperation, and competition—especially wars—will generate great demands and motivations for the development of science and technology. From the gunpowder that ended the Middle Ages, to the use of atomic energy spawned by World War II, and the aerospace technology that started in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, every revolutionary technological leap of mankind is closely related to war and international competition.
Science and technology are borderless. Scientists from all over the world work together to improve the level of human science and technology through academic exchanges and cooperation. Wakanda’s extreme closed-door policy, no economic and trade exchanges, no cultural exchanges, no value export, no war threats, guarded 10,000 tons of vibrating gold and isolated from the international community for thousands of years, strongly revealing one thing. The tribal and small-scale farmers' consciousness of "no water flowed to outsiders' fields" seems to lack the motivation to develop science and technology, nor can they share the latest achievements of the international scientific community. In this closed environment, even with some empirical science and technology, it is difficult to iteratively progress because of the lack of external reference. In this way, if Wakanda's highly developed black technology is not a unique case in human history, it is indeed "black" suspiciously.
Similarly, the development of science and technology is inseparable from the overall progress of human civilization. Scientists, engineers, business elites, political leaders, and literary masters interact to create the prosperity and civilization of modern society. A high-tech society cannot operate out of thin air. It requires the division of labor, cooperation and innovation of high-quality social members that match it. Wakanda's highly automated science and technology society will inevitably require a large number of highly educated professionals with advanced scientific knowledge and technology to provide services.
However, the lifestyle of most Wakanda citizens still stays in the pre-modern society. They keep rhinos, sell grilled skewers, eat and drink, sing and dance. Everyone has plenty of food and clothing, idle and idle, just like the big brothers in Africa who are lagging behind in neighboring countries. On the streets of Wakanda City, apart from the standard living fossils of clan communes, such as Burakumen, Chiefs, and King’s Guards, there is no staff, teachers, and professional technicians. There is only the king’s sister in a huge scientific research center. It's really weird to be there alone.
Then, the truth about Wakanda Black Technology is probably not as simple as the official history of entrepreneurship. Wakanda’s “modernization” is most likely to be exchanged for some kind of political transaction, and the transaction target is extraordinary. The kings of the past may have made a deal with an international technology group or even with aliens to "buy" modernization at the cost of vibrating gold. The upper-class nobles such as kings and chiefs improved Wakanda's living standards by monopolizing these imported black technologies, and exchanged welfare policies for the loyalty of tribal members, thereby stabilizing their rule. Similarly, black technology is also used to make fighter jets, vibrating armors and armed king guards in order to effectively suppress the resistance of tribal members and respond to external threats. In this way, a "beautiful new world" on the African continent was born. It is more mysterious than Dubai, but not more frank than the latter. Kings, princes and princesses in suits and leather shoes flocked into and out of the deep palaces of Vienna, Berlin, Paris and New York, just like the Arab oil kings of the year, they greeted the rich and powerful in the Western world and spent a lot of money. , By the way, let's show off those new things that come from unknown sources.
They carefully concealed the original core with gorgeous feathers, weaving a prosperous myth full of loopholes. Just like a black panther on the battlefield, no one will tell you that his talent and bravery are only because of taking the "secret recipe from the ancestors."
Lesson from the crisis: Will the "Leopard Revolution" succeed?
Wakanda seems to be an ideal country, but unexpected political disturbances have occurred in this ideal country. The current king and superhero "Black Panther" T'Challa was overthrown by the court coup launched by the international terrorist Erik Killmonger.
In fact, this Mr. Eric is also a member of the Wakanda royal family and is called Prince Jadaka. Eric's father took advantage of his position to go to the United States to give birth to a son, and was subsequently executed by the former king for alleged extreme political activities. As the surviving throne covet, Eric's return to the country to seize power, in addition to revenge, he also fulfilled his father’s ambitions—that is, to use Wakanda as a base, to spend money, guns, and people to launch a global scale. The black compatriots in China carried out a violent revolution, ending the pattern of Western whites dominating the world. Eric got the nickname "Leopard" for his leopard prints all over his body, so this massive plan of armed struggle is also called the "Leopard Revolution."
According to Eric the leopard, whether it is the poverty and backwardness of Africa or the racial discrimination and enslavement oppression suffered by black people all over the world, especially Western countries, it is all the evil results of white colonialism. For the black race to obtain ultimate freedom and liberation, armed struggle is the only effective means. Wakanda should become the leader and arsenal of this magnificent black revolution. This "revolutionary theory" is not new. It is nothing more than the old tune of the anti-colonial independence movement of the Third World in the 1960s. It only expanded the scope of the riots to the whole world, and put on a coat of racial struggle, thus faintly possessing the Nazis. odor. If the concept of "race" is replaced with "faith", then this revolution will be similar to the "jihad" of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. However, two assumptions implicit in the logic of the Leopard Revolution are quite interesting:
Before the white colonists set foot in black Africa, the blacks must have lived an idyllic and happy life.
After the white colonial regime is wiped out, the blacks will surely be able to build a better and more prosperous new world.
In fact, is it really so?
Before the colonization of the West in Africa began, black society was generally at the stage of primitive clan communes. The closed environment has caused cultural ignorance and barbarism, and backward productivity cannot provide black people with a prosperous and prosperous life. Frequent tribal wars have made peace a fantasy. Cruel killings, slavery and mass genocide were commonplace at the time. In the 17th century, in parallel with the colonization of the West in South Africa, a black tribe who migrated south from the Cameroon plateau in Central Africa also expanded its territory vigorously. Wherever they went, the local natives were slaughtered to death, they occupied the land and established political power, one of which was called the Zulu. Chaka, the Zulu king, was extremely bloodthirsty. In his tribal wars, 2 million people were killed. The Zulu people also have a tradition of sacrifices by living people. On the king’s birthday, there are often tens of thousands of captives in different places; Chaka’s younger brother Dinggang just had a "spiritual" dream. Can kill thousands of children under the age of three without hesitation... In contrast, no matter how cruel the governor of a white colony is, it is impossible to set up a head tower at his birthday party, let alone just Because I had a big-headed dream, I went to slaughter women and babies grandly.
In the black slave trade that has been criticized, the most shameful role is actually the local black chiefs in Africa. In the 17-18th century, when the slave trade was most prosperous, the West had not yet penetrated into the hinterland of Africa. White slave traders could only stop at the coast of Africa and receive the black slaves transferred from the hinterland from the local chiefs. The source of black slaves is not only the prisoners of war of various tribes in Africa, but even their own people within the tribe. There are many chiefs of small African kingdoms who are accustomed to selling their own people in exchange for various luxury goods provided by white people.
Ironically, the main force to end the slave trade was the white British Empire. After Britain abolished the slave trade at the end of the 18th century, it also used its influence to urge countries around the world to boycott the slave trade. Many black chiefs expressed great dissatisfaction with this, thinking that the British had cut off their financial means. The King of Madagascar had repeated frictions with Britain because of the prohibition of slave trade, and finally he barely stopped after Britain agreed to provide economic assistance.
In the face of historical facts, the first assumption seems to be untenable. What about the second hypothesis?
After the end of World War II, the colonial system of the European powers collapsed. Their colonies in Africa became independent one after another, establishing a new country where black people were the masters. The white people are finally gone, so black Africa should be thriving and become paradise on earth from now on? The answer is obviously not very good. In a place that does not have the basis of modern civilization, when the foreign civilization order collapses, what the newly emerging aboriginal upstarts can do is to pick up the inherent bad habits and retreat to the old days of ignorance. Autocratic brutality, warlord melee and racial vendetta took turns, and the cloud of chaos once again shrouded black Africa. In Uganda, East Africa, Idi Amin, the man who used to slice potatoes in the British Colonial Corps, ascended to heaven and became president for life. During his 18-year dark rule, a total of 300,000 Ugandans were massacred.
In the Congo, the Mobutu and Kabila father and son ruled for more than 50 years and hardly had a livelihood. The turmoil in 1993-2003 caused at least 3.5 million deaths; the atrocities of Bokassa, the ruler of Central Africa, reached the culmination, cutting off his ears and limbs at every turn of his subjects, and even imitating Napoleon, spending a huge amount of US$20 million. Crowned as emperor. He also has some heinous quirks, such as eating human flesh, and feeding prisoners to beasts after torturing them to death. As for Aidid, who has made Somalia pirates everywhere, and Mugabe, who makes everyone in Zimbabwe a billionaire, they are waiting. More than half a century after independence, the situation in Africa is still depressing. Who is to blame?
In fact, the so-called "revolution" of the leopard's global bloom is just a cover. Just as the "jihad" of bin Laden and Baghdadi was only a means to seek leadership, the focus was on seizing power in their own countries. They are all figures marginalized by the center of power. The leopard knows very well that the duel challenge of King Wakanda's enthronement ceremony is just a formality. It doesn't matter who the king is. Co-ruling of tribal factions has long become a political principle. He dared to take the world’s bad faith to kill Techara and break the principle of factional co-governance. He had to consider some way to never step down. Otherwise, once the factional forces counterattacked in the same way, he would inevitably be violated by trampling on political morality. Ruinous. So the so-called global black revolution has become a high-sounding reason. In this long-running, intensifying, and almost never-ending war, the leopard will have ample time and opportunity to throw stones, dig walls, mix sand, cleanse and annex Wakanda’s original political power, thereby establishing a new and powerful force. Personal totalitarian system.
Unfortunately, the Golden Leopard's wishful thinking failed before it even started. After all, the power of legal system is deeply ingrained and cannot be changed overnight. Techara has confidantes inside, backed by allies outside, and assistance from CIA when necessary. He even accommodated the two killers, Captain America and the Winter Soldier, the most wanted international criminals, to serve as guest officials in case of emergencies. It is necessary to play a few steps in the busy schedule. At critical moments, these people still have to reconcile inside and outside to regain the big position.
Breaking the game: Why does Wakanda want to "reform and open up"?
After the major disturbance of the coup d'etat, Techara, who was back in power, made an unexpected move: announcing that Wakanda was fully open to the outside world, and all countries are welcome to share vigorous resources and exchanges in science and technology. Some people say that this is a betrayal of national interests, because opening to the outside world will lead to the outflow of gold, allowing foreign forces to freely enter and exit Wakanda, causing the loss of state-owned assets. In fact, the "national interest" in the eyes of a ruler will never be an abstract thing, it can only be power! The internal rebellion triggered by the leopard coup left Techara's heart lingering, and the loyalty of the original tribal factions was already very unreliable. "To fight the inside, we must first settle the outside." In this case, only by resorting to the intervention of external forces can a new political balance be reached and new political capital can be obtained through diplomacy.
In addition, the coup has had a great international impact. In the eyes of the international community, Wakanda has become a potentially serious threat. Its monarchy succession system has fatal flaws, making this country easy to fall into the control of notorious terrorists and madmen, and its black technology may be used to launch new terrorist attacks and world wars at any time. Under such circumstances, continuing to maintain an opaque closed-door policy will undoubtedly greatly deepen the suspicions of the international community, especially the Western powers, and on the contrary will undermine national security.
Therefore, Techara's comprehensive open policy in the UN General Assembly is not an idealistic move. The overtone of "the wise build bridges, and the fools build walls" is meant to "use the teacher to help suppress" when it is convenient. And turning the nest of the anti-thief into a center of foreign affairs activities also has the meaning of the radicals within the united front, and it can be described as scheming. Wakanda's opening to the outside world will be a veritable "leopard jump". What is its impact? Will its promise of peace and development remain unshakable for 50 years? Should this be taken in admiration or stunned, I am afraid only God knows.
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