Brave New World美丽新世界(英文版)
阿道司·赫胥黎
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阿道司·赫胥黎
《美丽新世界》，刻画了一个距今600年的未来世界，物质生活十分丰富，科学技术高度发达，人们接受着各种安于现状的制约和教育，所有一切都被标准统一化，人的欲望可以随时随地得到完全满足，享受着衣食无忧的日子，不必担心生老病死带来的痛苦，然而在机械文明的社会中却无所谓家庭、个性、情绪、自由和道德，人与人之间根本不存在真实的情感，人性在机器的碾磨下灰飞烟灭。本书为英文原版。 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.
所谓世界秩序，不过是构筑在群体共同虚构的想象之上。统治者们制定的每一条规则，其终极目的，无非是巩固自身的权力与地位。人人平等是不可能实现的，阶级的存在是维护社会稳定的基石。从出生开始，阶级的设定就被植入思想，潜移默化中，所有人接受了这套精心设计的世界秩序，视其为理所当然。还有让人愉悦的药物能够麻痹神经，一切质疑秩序的声音，都被抛诸脑后。世界就这样，沿着设计好的轨道，无声地运转下去——一个用快乐统治的美丽新世界。
我很爱这本书自带的朗读语音，浑厚有力量。第一次读这本书的英文版本，解答了一些在中文版中无法理解的问题。我想每个人都幻想过自己生活在异世界，周围的人都丧失记忆，像被设定好路径的NPC，而自己是唯一清醒的主角，一步一步升级打怪，然后拯救众生。 然而真实情况大概率如这本书所描述的那样，唯一清醒着的、即将觉醒的人是秩序的敌人，是需要被清除的bug，连悄悄地活自己的生活都做不到，别说扮演英雄角色了。 虽然结局并不清晰，但我想如果不是一场噩梦，那他肯定在呼唤中去世了，在意识丧失的前一刻，他的灵魂还在逃窜。
未来的世界是什么样子的呢？每个人都和机器一样，等级和角色从一开始就被设定好了。没有任何痛苦，只有享乐真的是好的吗？
避雷这个系列。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. 在一个没有“自由”的世界里，“自由”究竟是解放还是一种新的枷锁？ 2. 稳定，稳定，还是稳定！真正的社会稳定应是能够在多样性中找到秩序，而非通过强制同一性来维持脆弱的平衡。 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.
我觉得这个新世界挺好的，没有痛苦，没有疾病，没有悲伤，没有孤独，没有对死亡的恐惧。虽然快乐是虚假的，但虚假的快乐也是快乐啊，现实生活中的快乐又有多少是真实的，有多少是自欺欺人呢。做人太难了，做一个没有自我意识的“假人”或许能轻松些吧。
跟中文译本对照着看比较好，没想到最后还有“作业”😂oh！Be responsible. 答完题可能会对政治心理学产生兴趣。
“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.” 一直以来时不时地，我的身体会给我发出信号说要感受寒冷，感受痛苦，我和朋友解释说that is how I feel alive，他们不理解，而如今，这样感受生活的我被这本书所接纳了，并被给予了更多的启示。希望你也听到你心中Mr.Savage的声音。