Brave New World美麗新世界(英文版)
阿道司·赫胥黎
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阿道司·赫胥黎
《美麗新世界》，刻畫了一個距今600年的未來世界，物質生活十分豐富，科學技術高度發達，人們接受着各種安於現狀的制約和教育，所有一切都被標準統一化，人的慾望可以隨時隨地得到完全滿足，享受着衣食無憂的日子，不必擔心生老病死帶來的痛苦，然而在機械文明的社會中卻無所謂家庭、個性、情緒、自由和道德，人與人之間根本不存在真實的情感，人性在機器的碾磨下灰飛煙滅。本書爲英文原版。 Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932. The title of this book derives from Miranda’s speech in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, (Act V, Scene I). Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—“After Ford”—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of “the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century”. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in “the top 100 greatest novels of all time”, and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC’s survey The Big Read.
所謂世界秩序，不過是構築在羣體共同虛構的想象之上。統治者們制定的每一條規則，其終極目的，無非是鞏固自身的權力與地位。人人平等是不可能實現的，階級的存在是維護社會穩定的基石。從出生開始，階級的設定就被植入思想，潛移默化中，所有人接受了這套精心設計的世界秩序，視其爲理所當然。還有讓人愉悅的藥物能夠麻痹神經，一切質疑秩序的聲音，都被拋諸腦後。世界就這樣，沿着設計好的軌道，無聲地運轉下去——一個用快樂統治的美麗新世界。
我很愛這本書自帶的朗讀語音，渾厚有力量。第一次讀這本書的英文版本，解答了一些在中文版中無法理解的問題。我想每個人都幻想過自己生活在異世界，周圍的人都喪失記憶，像被設定好路徑的NPC，而自己是唯一清醒的主角，一步一步升級打怪，然後拯救衆生。 然而真實情況大概率如這本書所描述的那樣，唯一清醒着的、即將覺醒的人是秩序的敵人，是需要被清除的bug，連悄悄地活自己的生活都做不到，別說扮演英雄角色了。 雖然結局並不清晰，但我想如果不是一場噩夢，那他肯定在呼喚中去世了，在意識喪失的前一刻，他的靈魂還在逃竄。
未來的世界是什麼樣子的呢？每個人都和機器一樣，等級和角色從一開始就被設定好了。沒有任何痛苦，只有享樂真的是好的嗎？
避雷這個系列。排版非常差。大家去找其他出版社的。
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in 'Brave New World revisited,' the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' people are controlled by inflicting pain. In 'Brave New World' people are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
三大感想： 1. 在一個沒有“自由”的世界裏，“自由”究竟是解放還是一種新的枷鎖？ 2. 穩定，穩定，還是穩定！真正的社會穩定應是能夠在多樣性中找到秩序，而非通過強制同一性來維持脆弱的平衡。 3. Am I also living in this so-called brave new world? I believe the answer is yes. I’m living right in this world now, where freedom has been traded for comfort, and individuality for conformity. Like Huxley’s vision, we are lulled into contentment by distraction, pacified by pleasure, and controlled by subtle, invisible forces. Yet, beneath the surface of this engineered happiness lies a profound emptiness, a world where true connection and meaning are lost. The question is not just whether I live in this world, but whether I am awake to its reality—or merely another cog in its well-oiled machine.
Directly reflects a lot we are facing right now… highly recommended. Made me more aware of myself (individualism) and my true feelings.
我覺得這個新世界挺好的，沒有痛苦，沒有疾病，沒有悲傷，沒有孤獨，沒有對死亡的恐懼。雖然快樂是虛假的，但虛假的快樂也是快樂啊，現實生活中的快樂又有多少是真實的，有多少是自欺欺人呢。做人太難了，做一個沒有自我意識的“假人”或許能輕鬆些吧。
跟中文譯本對照着看比較好，沒想到最後還有“作業”😂oh！Be responsible. 答完題可能會對政治心理學產生興趣。
“But I don't want comfort.I want God.I want poetry.I want real danger.I want freedom.I want goodness.I want sin.” “I claim the right to be unhappy. I claim them all.” 一直以來時不時地，我的身體會給我發出信號說要感受寒冷，感受痛苦，我和朋友解釋說that is how I feel alive，他們不理解，而如今，這樣感受生活的我被這本書所接納了，並被給予了更多的啓示。希望你也聽到你心中Mr.Savage的聲音。