Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 英文原版

前幾天看到一句話，“我向你介紹的巴黎一定不是客觀的，因爲我25歲在巴黎讀書，我向你介紹的巴黎其實是我的25歲。”這讓我意識到，我讀的每一本書，寫下的感受，那並不是這本書的客觀全貌，我只是在寫下此時以及這整個過程中我的狀態。甚至閱讀過程中某一天的心情都會影響到我對這本書的講述。25歲讀1984，我看到的是個體如何被巨大的社會機器所碾壓，30歲的我讀1984，發現一個系統真正恐怖的是他可以改變人的思想，讓人主動相信以至信奉它。書沒有變，變化的是讀書的人。 從第一章Winston的思想反抗，到第二章的微小行動，再到最後的被審判並愛上老大哥，你會發現死亡並不是最可怕的。如果Winston最後只是被殺，那反而是他的勝利，他的身體可以被摧毀，但他的思想沒有被征服，無數後來人總會有成功的可能。最可怕的是，他愛老大哥。He loved Big Brother. 權力不滿足於簡單的讓你閉嘴，他希望你發自內心的說出他想讓你說的話。 If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. Marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face. 喬治奧威爾所描述的時代與狀況隨處可見。這到底是奧威爾的偉大與超前還是這就是普遍規律？控制語言、改寫歷史、篩選信息、創造敵人…奧威爾預測的並不是一個具體的未來，而是他看到了人性和權力運行中的普遍規律。 "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. 當Oceania發明Newspeak時，你限制了一個人的詞彙時，你是否也限制了他的思想。語言不僅是表達思想的工具，更是塑造思想邊界的工具。當“自由”一詞被刪除，當人們無法說出“自由“時，他們也就更難組織關於自由的思想。語言減少，使用語言的自由度減少，思想自由的空間也就被壓縮了。所以我們到底在多大程度上擁有自己的思想。我們似乎不太關心，我們更無暇關心。 To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. 剛好今天看到了某官號發表的“用token還是詞元，事關科技話語權”。當你把一個底層的極其複雜、需要無數研究與創新的技術生態，簡單的解釋爲文化入侵，把一些詞漢化的時候，這就是你的文化自信？你的科技話語權完全依賴於掌握語言命名與表達權是嗎。你有能力創造新的東西，全世界都必須使用你的芯片、AI模型、科研範式，科技話語權自然掌握在你手中，語言和文化也就會在世界範圍內傳播。通過控制語言來控制人們的思想，對語言背後的能力視而不見，我並不知道您這是怎麼了…符號勝利法亦或精神勝利法？（希望沒有犯thoughtcrime，保護微信讀書最後一片淨土） Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity. To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink—greetings!

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟🌟 第一部分世界設定非常詳細，第二部分末尾才稍稍透露出1984這個設定下的世界的運行機制，第三部分主要是刑訊逼供跟藥物控制，感覺是披着合理正義外皮的邪教邏輯，所以不太適合青少年閱讀。 倒是諷刺了極權高壓統治，如果能氣定神閒的相信BB可以統治永久，那爲何還會對異己趕盡殺絕，要絕對的思想控制？ 正如被馴服之前的Winston所說，這邪教最終會覆滅的。 很有意義的一本小說，值得閱讀和思考，推薦。