Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 英文原版

前几天看到一句话，“我向你介绍的巴黎一定不是客观的，因为我25岁在巴黎读书，我向你介绍的巴黎其实是我的25岁。”这让我意识到，我读的每一本书，写下的感受，那并不是这本书的客观全貌，我只是在写下此时以及这整个过程中我的状态。甚至阅读过程中某一天的心情都会影响到我对这本书的讲述。25岁读1984，我看到的是个体如何被巨大的社会机器所碾压，30岁的我读1984，发现一个系统真正恐怖的是他可以改变人的思想，让人主动相信以至信奉它。书没有变，变化的是读书的人。 从第一章Winston的思想反抗，到第二章的微小行动，再到最后的被审判并爱上老大哥，你会发现死亡并不是最可怕的。如果Winston最后只是被杀，那反而是他的胜利，他的身体可以被摧毁，但他的思想没有被征服，无数后来人总会有成功的可能。最可怕的是，他爱老大哥。He loved Big Brother. 权力不满足于简单的让你闭嘴，他希望你发自内心的说出他想让你说的话。 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. 乔治奥威尔所描述的时代与状况随处可见。这到底是奥威尔的伟大与超前还是这就是普遍规律？控制语言、改写历史、筛选信息、创造敌人…奥威尔预测的并不是一个具体的未来，而是他看到了人性和权力运行中的普遍规律。 "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. 当Oceania发明Newspeak时，你限制了一个人的词汇时，你是否也限制了他的思想。语言不仅是表达思想的工具，更是塑造思想边界的工具。当“自由”一词被删除，当人们无法说出“自由“时，他们也就更难组织关于自由的思想。语言减少，使用语言的自由度减少，思想自由的空间也就被压缩了。所以我们到底在多大程度上拥有自己的思想。我们似乎不太关心，我们更无暇关心。 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. 刚好今天看到了某官号发表的“用token还是词元，事关科技话语权”。当你把一个底层的极其复杂、需要无数研究与创新的技术生态，简单的解释为文化入侵，把一些词汉化的时候，这就是你的文化自信？你的科技话语权完全依赖于掌握语言命名与表达权是吗。你有能力创造新的东西，全世界都必须使用你的芯片、AI模型、科研范式，科技话语权自然掌握在你手中，语言和文化也就会在世界范围内传播。通过控制语言来控制人们的思想，对语言背后的能力视而不见，我并不知道您这是怎么了…符号胜利法亦或精神胜利法？（希望没有犯thoughtcrime，保护微信读书最后一片净土） 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!

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟🌟 第一部分世界设定非常详细，第二部分末尾才稍稍透露出1984这个设定下的世界的运行机制，第三部分主要是刑讯逼供跟药物控制，感觉是披着合理正义外皮的邪教逻辑，所以不太适合青少年阅读。 倒是讽刺了极权高压统治，如果能气定神闲的相信BB可以统治永久，那为何还会对异己赶尽杀绝，要绝对的思想控制？ 正如被驯服之前的Winston所说，这邪教最终会覆灭的。 很有意义的一本小说，值得阅读和思考，推荐。