Chapter 58 City emblem

At the beginning of the construction of the Tower of Babel, everything was in order.Yes, this kind of orderliness is probably too much. People think too much about road signs, interpreters, food and lodging for tower builders, traffic roads, as if there are hundreds of years before them. do what.The prevailing view at the time went so far as to suggest that the pace of construction was probably not slow at all.People don't need to express this opinion very exaggeratedly, it may be that they are particularly afraid of laying foundations.It was argued that the essence of the whole enterprise was the idea of ​​building a tower of Babel.Apart from this thought, everything else is secondary.Once an idea is formed, it doesn't go away.As long as human beings exist, there will be a strong desire to build this tower to the end.But since there is a future, people need not worry about this, but the opposite.Human knowledge is becoming more and more advanced, and construction technology has advanced greatly and will continue to improve. In a hundred years, a task that takes a year now can be completed in about half a year, and the quality is higher and more durable.That being the case, why do you have to work hard today?The effort is only worthwhile if the tower can be expected to be built within one generation.However this is absolutely hopeless.It is easier to infer that the next generation with perfect knowledge will think that the previous generation did not do well, and will tear down what has been built in order to start again.This kind of thinking vented everyone's energy.Compared with building towers, people are more enthusiastic about building cities of tower builders.Each guild wanted to occupy the prettiest camp, and so endless disputes arose that escalated into bloodshed.There is no end to these conflicts.They became a new argument for the chiefs, who believed that, lacking the necessary concentration, the tower had to be built very slowly, or simply wait until after a general peace had been concluded.But people don't spend all their time in these conflicts, and in the intervals they also beautify the city, which leads to new jealousies and new conflicts.Thus passed the first generation, but the succeeding generations were no different, except that they were more skilled and, with it, more aggressive.By the second or third generation, people have realized the folly of building Babel, but by this time they are so bound to each other that they can never leave the city.

In this city, everything expressed by legend and folk song is filled with a longing for the day that has been prophesied, when the city will be hit five times by a giant fist, it will be smashed to pieces.Therefore, the city has this fist on the city emblem.