1.pursue of happiness
when arts and science have to give way to happiness, there left only a world of delirium and mechanism. If happiness can be simplified to a series of chemical reation and be procured by 1 gramme of soma, how much easier it is for us to reach the crescendo of heaven.What on earth is happiness? Can it be measured by the sweats we shed, the pain we suffer, or the inward conflicts which keep haunting in our minds and can never be erased? Must we slash our souls to possess this kind of happiness? We're not sade. And we don't need to contemplate the issue of to be or not to be. The wheels are turning. The excruciating desires tremble and swarm in like the insatiable ghosts keep sucking me dry. Happiness for happiness's sake, we turn to the drugs, or,to make it more natural, we refer it to the comforts and the relish we gain. So the choice is to be a Sade or to become a drugger.Maybe I won't be addicted to it-the worldly external seduction, or maybe I can refrain the intrinsical desire and indecorousness. Maybe that is morality, on the diverged road of chasing happiness, we choose the ambiguous middle; we exert ourselves to keep balance on the scale of perversion and addiction. Subsequently, instead of becoming a numb robot or a frenzy savage, we are humanbeings.
It is just a matter of quantity.
2. civilized or not
Civilization is not a repeated execution of what has been inculcated in your mind for a long time. It does not pertain to a process of cremating history. It is a conception defined by the authority to confirm the superiority of humanbeings. It is a pretext to rationalize the inexorable control of the nature and the "inferior" members. I am civilized and we are all civilized. So we won't go astray from the main lane of slavery. Fortunately, we are still proud of it. For the sake of civilization, we standardize different members, label them and sometimes annihilate them when they seem the defile our sacrilized nobleness. As humanbeings, we patronize those who are not the same with us, we isolate those who "profane" our perfect society. That is what's called civilization, a silly superfluous seeking of an equivalent world.
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书名: Brave New World
作者: [英] Aldous Huxley
出版社: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
出版年: 1998-9-1
页数: 268
定价: $12.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060929879