
科技使我们的生活素质提高了不止一倍,这可以举很多例子比如:有了电灯,晚上不再漆黑;有了飞机,咫尺天涯不再是梦想。科技的益处是我们无法否认的,但科技如果应用不当,便会给社会造成危害,给人类带来灾难。
就如《隐身人》所说的那样:化学家格里芬经过一番苦心研究,他有一种可以使身体隐设的方法,并在自己身上试验成功。可是成为隐身人的他自我意识膨胀,想在一个地方称王称帝,之后用自己的.隐身技术统治人类,称霸全球。最后在一次追捕中被人活活打死。由此可见把一种科技运用好了,比发明它更加重要。就如DDT,那时人们滥用这种农药,使现在很多生态系统收到破坏,而且这DDT也会通过食物链最终进入人们的口中,最后危害人类自身。就像蛇的毒液一样,如果应用得当,有时会成为救命的一帖良药。药也有三分毒。科技是好的,是有益处的,关键在于人们如何去应用它;应用得好,造福万家;应用得不好,危害自身。
运用好科技,自身也要有良好的心态,在发明科技时,想的是为老百姓造福,而不是怎样为自己谋利,这样才可以算是一个好的发明家。
让我们一起运用好科技吧。
As a young man, in the late 1920s or early 1930s, the narrator lived in the South. Because he is a gifted public speaker, he is invited to give a speech to a group of important white men in his town. The men reward him with a briefcase containing a scholarship to a prestigious black college, but only after humiliating him by forcing him to fight in a “battle royal” in which he is pitted against other young black men, all blindfolded, in a boxing ring. After the battle royal, the white men force the youths to scramble over an electrified rug in order to snatch at fake gold coins. Three years later, the narrator is a student at the college. He is asked to drive a wealthy white trustee of the college, Mr. Norton, around the campus. Norton talks incessantly about his daughter, then shows an undue interest in the narrative of Jim Trueblood, a poor, uneducated black man who impregnated his own daughter. After hearing this story, Norton needs a drink, and the narrator takes him to the Golden Day, a saloon and brothel that normally serves black men. A fight breaks out among a group of mentally imbalanced black veterans at the bar, and Norton passes out during the chaos. He is tended by one of the veterans, who claims to be a doctor and who taunts both Norton and the narrator for their blindness regarding race relations.
The narrator says that he has stayed underground ever since; the end of his story is also the beginning. He states that he finally has realized that he must honor his individual complexity and remain true to his own identity without sacrificing his responsibility to the community. He says that he finally feels ready to emerge from underground.
As the narrator of Invisible Man struggles to arrive at a conception of his own identity, he finds his efforts complicated by the fact that he is a black man living in a racist American society. Throughout the novel, the narrator finds himself passing through a series of communities, from the Liberty Paints plant to the Brotherhood, with each microcosm endorsing a different idea of how blacks should beha一ve in society. As the narrator attempts to define himself through the values and expectations imposed on him, he finds that, in each case, the prescribed role limits his complexity as an individual and forces him to play an inauthentic part.
Upon arriving in New York, the narrator enters the world of the Liberty Paints plant, which achieves financial success by subverting blackness in the service of a brighter white. There, the narrator finds himself involved in a process in which white depends hea一vily on black—both in terms of the mixing of the paint tones and in terms of the racial makeup of the workforce. Yet the factory denies this dependence in the final presentation of its product, and the narrator, as a black man, ends up stifled. Later, when the narrator joins the Brotherhood, he believes that he can fight for racial equality by working within the ideology of the organization, but he then finds that the Brotherhood seeks to use him as a token black man in its abstract project.
Ultimately, the narrator realizes that the racial prejudice of others causes them to see him only as they want to see him, and their limitations of vision in turn place limitations on his ability to act. He concludes that he is invisible, in the sense that the world is filled with blind people who cannot or will not see his real nature. Correspondingly, he remains unable to act according to his own personality and becomes literally unable to be himself. Although the narrator initially embraces his invisibility in an attempt to throw off the limiting nature of stereotype, in the end he finds this tactic too passive. He determines to emerge from his underground “hibernation,” to make his own contributions to society as a complex individual. He will attempt to exert his power on the world outside of society’s system of prescribed roles. By making proactive contributions to society, he will force others to acknowledge him, to acknowledge the existence of beliefs and beha一viors outside of their prejudiced expectations.
Over the course of the novel, the narrator realizes that the complexity of his inner self is limited not only by people’s racism but also by their more general ideologies. He finds that the ideologies advanced by institutions prove too simplistic and one-dimensional to serve something as complex and multidimensional as human identity. The novel contains many examples of ideology, from the tamer, ingratiating ideology of Booker T. Washington subscribed to at the narrator’s college to the more violent, separatist ideology voiced by Ras the Exhorter. But the text makes its point most strongly in its discussion of the Brotherhood. Among the Brotherhood, Because he has decided that the world is full of blind men and sleepwalkers who cannot see him for what he is, the narrator describes himself as an “invisible man.” The motif of invisibility pervades the novel, often manifesting itself hand in hand with the motif of blindness—one person becomes invisible because another is blind. While the novel almost always portrays blindness in a negative light, it treats invisibility much more ambiguously. Invisibility can bring disempowerment, but it can also bring freedom and mobility. Indeed, it is the freedom the narrator derives from his anonymity that enables him to tell his story. Moreover, both the veteran at the Golden Day and the narrator’s grandfather seem to endorse invisibility as a position from which one may safely exert power over others, or at least undermine others’ power, without being caught. The narrator demonstrates this power in the Prologue, when he literally draws upon electrical power from his hiding place underground; the electric company is aware of its losses but cannot locate their source. At the end of the novel, however, the narrator has decided that while invisibility may bring safety, actions undertaken in secrecy cannot ultimately ha一ve any meaningful impact. One may undermine one’s enemies from a position of invisibility, but one cannot make significant changes to the world. Accordingly, in the Epilogue the narrator decides to emerge from his hibernation, resolved to face society and make a visible difference.
一、
好多人抱怨过年无聊,我也有这样的感觉。
为什么呢?
柴静在《看见》一书里说:这样一个快速变化的时期,传统的家族、集体断了,新的又没有建立起来,空虚只会导致消费和破坏,只有当人们能感到创建自己世界的满足,不会与别人去比较,不会因为钱,因为压力感到被抛弃,这才是真正的归属。
很明显,即便是在春节这样一个以亲情为主要内涵的传统节日里,我们其实也并没有在家庭中得到真正的归属感。不管是催你找对象的叔叔阿姨,还是希望你考公务员进编制的爸妈,我们以亲情之名欢聚一堂,觥筹交错,对彼此的了解却如此淡薄,淡薄到连一句寒暄问候,都难以说到对方心里。
这几年观察到一个有趣的现象,每次过年前,好多公众号都会出“过年如何怼亲戚”教程,我就听过一个。课程非常细致地把过年见亲戚的各种场景分成几大类,每个场景都给出了三条以上的应对策略。从课程界面底下的留言能看出,这堂课的受众不算少。
我心情挺复杂。平心而论,除去少数真的讨人厌的奇葩亲戚,其实大多数亲戚说的那些让你不舒服的话,要不是“真的为你好”,要不就是大家都说这些,除了这些也不知道聊啥——“总不能尬场吧!”“你以为我爱问啊!”然而这件事对于很多人,已经成为需要掏钱买个网课对付的麻烦了。
为什么?
我的答案:我们对彼此的了解,太流于表面了。就不说那些一年只见一回的亲戚了吧,你敢说你爸妈了解你吗?你了解他们吗?“知子莫如父”,在今天,恐怕是很少见了。
我们在“父子”“母女”的角色框架里各司其职,却僵硬到,不肯跳出这个角色,单纯地以一个人看待另一个人的方式,尝试着了解一下我们最亲的人。或者说,早已习惯这样的模式,根本就不曾想到,还能有其他的模式。
不无聊才怪。
停留在生活的'表层,是很可怕的事。
二、
这个月看电影,也有类似的感觉。
既然这个月的主题是看电影,就打算好好写几篇影评。以前也写过“影评”:在豆瓣高分电影里,找一个感兴趣的,看完,趁着心里那点激动的劲儿,电脑打开,情绪喷薄而出,洋洋洒洒一篇文章。自我感觉良好。
这个月,想着既然要写,就得认认真真地写,不能像以前那样随意。看和菜头讲影评的文章,才知道自己以前写的压根不是影评,顶多算是个
看到了标准,才知道以前的自己有多偷懒。
看了几部非常好的片子:《闻香识女人》,被上校最后的那段演讲震撼到不行;《喜剧之王》,把周星驰和柳飘飘同学的片段,来来回回看了好几遍。
真要写,却发现只有流于表面的、类似这样的感动和震撼,和普通的观众并无差别。要写一篇好的观后感,比如《喜剧之王》,起码要了解周星驰的人生经历、为什么对社会边缘的小人物有如此深切的关怀、幕后故事、电影本身的故事结构、喜剧元素的特点、周氏喜剧的风格等等。
这才知道自己的匮乏。
对我来说,这当然是好事。因为知道有太多的东西需要挖掘,那都是自己的进步空间、和点燃好奇心的火焰。
困在生活的表层却不自知,甚至还觉得“这样挺好”,那才是真正可怕的事情。
三、
昨天还看了姜思达最新一期的《透明人》,采访对象是刘天池——因为综艺节目《演员的诞生》被大家认识的中戏老师。
采访里,刘天池上表演课说的一句话让我印象深刻:为什么很多人演戏假?因为他们从来都没有真正地关注过自己的对手,没有真正地感知过对方。
都说“戏如人生”,我们过生活,若是只停留在表面,不去关注身边的人、事、物,不去感知、触碰彼此的内心,是不是也可以说,这样的生活是“假生活”?
常听人说:最怕不过“用心”二字。以前觉得这是鸡汤,太抽象;现在才发现,这真是极为朴素、又包含着大智慧的人生态度。
所谓的用心,其实就是不断地挖掘世界,在人们习以为常的事情上多问个“为什么”,在人们懒得去想的问题上做出尝试,逐渐走向生活的深层。
年也算过完了,新的一年,祝愿你也能重视起思考和自省的力量,让自己的大脑更有力,让自己的心灵更柔软。
一起加油,跟不过脑、不走心的"假生活"说No。
努力!奋斗!



