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網誌日期:2009-10-15 11:57

想像一下……

假如你是隻存活於納粹德國時期的小老鼠,你最嚮往遷至哪個自由國度呢?亞美尼堅大概是個必然之選吧。可是,哲學家Herbert Marcuse將眉頭深鎖地告訴你,不,美國──從某一種意義上──也是個極權國家(totalitarian state)

For “totalitarian” is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests.

走出街,人人吃同一樣東西,喝同一樣東西,玩同一樣東西,樂同一種東西,便是Marcuse所謂的manipulation of needs。試過在香港九龍新界各地蹲下來數車輪,工作還包括記錄車齡,我赫然發現,一部超過七歲大的車像在夏天尋找著樽領衫的人一樣難找。

Peoplefind their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

財寶在那裏心也在那裏。在發達國家,當財寶與安逸生活畫上等號,心所排斥的──Marcuse認為──是種跨越現況的批判性思考(negative thinking)。古希臘哲學家蘇格拉底染上癖好,最愛吃飽後走到巿集追問遊人一籃子惱人問題:「甚麼是公義?何謂真理?勇氣又是甚麼?」相反,自由巿場兜售虛假人性,塑造虛假需要,要緊的是效率,唯有技術理性(technological rationality)最真實,上不接形而上學,下不接歷史根源,我們恐怕都淪為上下不通的平面人了。Think positive!坊間依然鼓勵我們個人自救。

好一面倒的言論,不過法國哲學家盧梭的話又再迴盪:

Man is born free but everywhere he’s in chains.

                         

Picasso, Pablo. Woman Playing the Mandolin (1909)
State Museum of New Western Art, Moscow , 1931.

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What Is Perfect Joy?

St. Francis answered him, “When we arrive at Santa Maria degli Angeli, soaked by rain, and frozen by the cold, and befouled with mud, and afflicted with hunger, and knock at the door of the Place, and the doorkeeper comes in anger and says, ‘Who are you?’ and we say, ‘We are two of your friars,’ and he says, ‘You are not telling the truth; rather you are two lewd fellows who go about deceiving the world and robbing the alms of the poor. Get you hence,’ and he doesn’t open to us but makes us stay outside in the snow and rain, cold and hungry, until nightfall. Then, if we bear such great wrong and such cruelty and such rebuffs patiently, without disquieting ourselves and without murmuring against him and think humbly and charitably that that doorkeeper really believes us to be what he has called us and that God makes him speak against us: O Friar Leo, write that here is perfect joy. (from The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)
 

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