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不反对别人走捷径
2010.04.27
因为水门事件坐牢的G. Gordon Liddy有一句话:
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.(显然犯罪是有好处的,否则世界上就没有犯罪了。)
wiki百科上George Gordon Battle Liddy的信息链接:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy
显然,走捷径是有好处的,否则世界上就没有捷径了。所以,我从来不反对个人选择走捷径。个人选择走捷径是因为捷径不仅能走,而且走得通。
鲁迅先生也讲过:
其实地上本没有路,走的人多了,也变成了路。
同样,捷径本来不是路,走的人多了,自然也就成了必由之路。
所以,在《国内学术界学术偷窃和走捷径不是新鲜事》博文中,我提到了中国学术界的两条捷径,并不意味着我反对人们去走那两条捷径,如果走得通的话。何况,孔夫子早就说过:始作俑者,其无后乎?估计不管怎么反对,还是照样要有很多人去走的。
《国内学术界学术偷窃和走捷径不是新鲜事》博文链接:http://www.sciencenet.cn/m/user_content.aspx?id=316462
事实上,学术偷窃的事情,在国外学术界也时有发生,也未必都受到了严厉的惩罚;走学术捷径的事情,在国外学术界也可以说是屡见不鲜,也为必都一定带来坏的结果,有时候可能还是皆大欢喜。最主要的差别,在国外学术界那不是很多人都乐此不疲的正路,而在国内学术界却越来越像必由之途。
如果只是从个人层面来看这些事情,不走捷径的人,要么是傻瓜,要么是有更多企图。如果我们对这样的事情,只是停留在个人道德的层面去分析,其结果大概也只是要么是傻瓜,要么是别有用心。
雨果的《悲惨世界》中,Jean Valjean偷了神父的银盘子就跑,被警察抓住,神父反而替他开脱,说是自己送给他的,而且还说Jean Valjean还忘了拿走也送给他的银烛台。
wiki百科Jean Valjean介绍链接:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Valjean
所以,偷窃和走捷径并非一定会受到惩处,反而可能会变成Jean Valjean成为圣人的一个人生转折点,一旦他自己学会了问自己一个简单的问题:Who Am I?
当然,这个世界之所以会成为《悲惨世界》,主要是没有几个人问自己这个问题,或者即使问这个问题,也不愿意给出一个自己敢于面对的答案。
因为这个原因,我并不喜欢发明和杜撰了宏大理论来替无产阶级说话的卡尔 马克思,而更喜欢主张调和与资产阶级人道主义的维克多 雨果。
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《悲惨世界》歌舞剧
Who Am I?歌词
曲: Claude-Michel Schönberg
词: Herbert Kretzmer
He thinks that man is me
He knew him at a glance!
That stranger he has found
This man could be my chance!
Why should I save his hide?
Why should I right this wrong
When I have come so far
And struggled for so long?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
I am the master of hundreds of workers.
They all look to me.
How can I abandon them?
How would they live
If I am not free?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
Who am I?
Can I condemn this man to slavery
Pretend I do not feel his agony
This innocent who bears my face
Who goes to judgement in my place
Who am I?
Can I conceal myself for evermore?
Pretend I'm not the man I was before?
And must my name until I die
Be no more than an alibi?
Must I lie?
How can I ever face my fellow men?
How can I ever face myself again?
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
He gave me hope when hope was gone
He gave me strength to journey on
[He appears in front of the court]
Who am I? Who am I?
I am Jean Valjean!
[He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the number tattooed to his chest]
And so Javert, you see it's true
That man bears no more guilt than you!
Who am I?
24601!
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