Tale III: The Second Coming

There is an ancient ceremony in the village. On the second Sunday of every month, the village will hold a ceremony: people will put a long and flat ‘pillar’ built by everyone into the river, let it run and flow down.

People can’t remember when this ceremony started. The elders in the village just answered the question of the younger generation like this: There is a temple at the end of the river, the owner of the temple will gladly accept people’s gifts, and he will also give people sunshine, food and shelter. No one has ever thought about what this temple looks like, nor how long the river is. Day after day…

This story stems from people’s concerns about the production process of making windmill blades in the wind power industry. When people are no longer aware of these energy conversion processes, or how wind power is produced (and people don’t actually know it), but just think that such a factory or form can get the supply of energy in return. This kind of technology worship refers to blindly believing in the ‘beautiful’ results that certain technology can bring, so that people tend to focus on the new life brought about by new technologies, rather than those ‘by-products’.