我现在对国内的政治问题已没多少兴趣,首先是因为去国太久, 对国内的政治和经济形势无法亲身经历,随便乱说的话是不负责的;二是因为自己现在生活在社会的边缘,高谈政治,基本和北京的出租司机谈论中南海政治是一样的效果。
不过我惊讶大陆同胞基本是一边倒的声音,有点农民翻身斗地主的气氛,不得不出来说自己的几分感受。
当一个社会的民众为何会用一种学运或示威的方法去抗争政府呢? 不能只是简单地说被其他政治团体利用,原因是很复杂的,个人的,历史的,文化的都有。这是未来学者们去研究的课题。
我记得十多年前上过的一门课,用的教科书至今记忆犹新—- 《Living with other People》, 我一直留在身边。谈到社会冲突此书这样写道:
Social Structures exert a pressure on our personal moral knowing and acting to shift the direction of our performance and thus our capacities for future performance. They do not supplant our knowing and acting; in fact, social forces draw upon and use the self-constituting thrust of moral action. Social forces work through our own operations of moral meaning to form our acting, which in turn forms our character and thus our capacities for future action. What is distinctive about social forces is the way in which other people’s operations of knowing and acting come into the orbit of our own conscious life to shift the orientation of our own knowing and doing and to shape our sense of identity, our image of ourselves as persons. Because we are Creatures of meaning, our capacities for action are formed in large measure by the ideas we have about ourselves, and it is these ideas that are most powerfully communicated in social interaction.
抱歉,因为没有中文版,你可以自己借Google Translator 翻译(相信来北美数年的人,这段文字是小菜一碟)。 大意是说这些运动和冲突的后面其实是人们最深处Identity 的冲突。 我是香港人,还是中国人? 长期以来,香港人有自己的独特的Identity,相信这次冲突后,这个问题会加剧。
“in our efforts to become our own persons, we not only take on our parents’ particular ideas about ourselves, we also appropriate generalized notions of identity , personhood, and self-worth that are implicitly communicated and reinforced through the social routines of our culture. “
我们总是把自己所认知的价值观强加给别人,从不考虑“他人”和“我们”的不同处。如何和他人相处,而不是硬要别人站在自己的立场,这恐怕是这个世代面临的最大挑战,也是对我们自己最大的挑战。单纯讲政治和经济是行不通的, 人类只有上升到形而上的层面去思考这些问题,才能找到根本性的出路。我喜欢登山宝训的那句话:“你们用什么量器给人,也必用什么量器给你们”。
其实环顾全球运行资本主义的国家和地区,其经济和政治制度虽然有所差距,但公平的政治制度也是必须的。香港现在已列全球裙带资本主义的首位,这样的制度只会于短时期内有利于一小撮人,对其馀所有人也是不利的。 - See more at: http://blog.creaders.net/yubujie/user_blog_diary.php?did=193032#sthash.R4wiqaEm.dpuf