It’s not for you, it’s for you.

By Tianlong Li

Since the so-called unprecedented and long expected detection of the magnetic monopoly, which to be honest I have absolutely no authority and only least acquaintance with, there’re those folks trying to posture themselves as a reaction to the scientific development, who could be rejoicing the spark of digging the world, or doubting its prospect, mainly focused on personal perspective. For the latter, it’s in a nutshell just a denial- “It’s not for me, so I don’t care.” I’m not suggesting everyone felicitating the discovery of that strange particle, immerging oneself into the vision that all of us are going to enjoy anti-gravity transportation and urban space travel agency due to the development all bumped profoundly by our little friend’s visit, which is just going too far and deserving a seat in science fiction, whereas the inhospitality upon the particle, which is virtually showing how materialistic people are nowadays, is the issue we should raise.

Yes, it’s not for you, but it’s for YOU, which is including you as its mere fraction.

Such sophisticated development and obscure terminology, by which civilians find them confronted with unending search and decryption once they intend to know how the development could affect them, often present a mysterious idea and get conveyed in form of straightaway paraphrase e.g. the adaption of to a simple nuke and the clone technology which at its beginning is a boring deciphering process. It’s totally understandable for people to have biases on those and have some conceivable possible prospect for them to evaluate the enigma. However it’s not a reason and never an excuse to blame the scientists for using funds and not making us better off immediately.

Demanding instant welfare from laboratorial experiment is as materialistic as waiting for eggs from the biddy just breaking out of the egg. And this behavior is thoroughly strengthened by contemporary social value judgment, which could be elaborated as maximizing the profit at all possible ways and minimizing the cost at all acceptable choices, inarguably driving most people to seek predictable profit and judge on thing’s value, despite only by their own opinions and self interests. The inconsistency between applied theory and laboratorial trial exists all the time, from when the Homo sapiens were trying to set fire, after they had seen the fire from lightning and been inspired, for thousands of years until they actually drilled on the block. Application takes time and calls for patience for people, no matter whether it’s about a doohickey or astronomical assumption, which though by the evolution and process of civilization speed up timely and requires less frictional work. Irony as it is, the faster a newly discovered thing could be applied, the more eager people would expect for overall academic projects. Aryans waited for centuries for first iron-smelt sword, Chinese watched for decades for the Great Wall and Americans held their breath for years while expecting the first TV after the Bell labs for their first time transmitted moving images from Washington, DC to New York City. Now even a momentary patience, is going to be evaluated into currency-based by people and judged.

What happen to the society is happening to everyone inevitably. One’s impossibly avoiding the surrounding reaction and being affected under current snappish social intension, which making the deterioration of concrete academic research steep and sharp, in terms of materialistic project having short term outcome as well as exploiting the embedded work to yield benefit. Undertaking to deeply think over the recondite development, while I’m suggesting that it’s not required to have direct prospect, is hard to achieve and asking for more than patience, but definitely doing the good, in regard to the aggregates other than single fragment. The consciousness of putting more attention to what really promote the civilization and what is becoming more crucial to the society, serves to us as a whole, causing the ripple effect for everyone within us and bettering off the entire group, which is as far-flung as the application process itself, but far more fundamental and universal across the eras and zeitgeists.

Other than fullfilling physical needs or soothing mind fuzz,things like quantum research are nigh impossible to benefit you intuitionally, but hardly possible to value less than a popslice or beefsteak that might benefit you more directly. It shall be for you, ergo you should be for it.