底下是十年前寫的文章,到現在我們還在捍衛個人說話方式的美感空間,估計人類還能存在多久,這樣的一種鬥爭便會存在多久.

陳真
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最有夠力的一個醜聞

陳真01/05/13


xxx你好,　謝謝 「好評」。不過，我想你不是真的感到「痛快」，不是真的相信我說的，因為，如果你真的相信，你就不會這麼「建議」我不要寫什麼粗話了。

你的問題比較嚴重，我有專文探討，早已寫好，但又臭又長，先放著。先簡單回幾句好了。

你使我想起Terry Eagleton 在 ""Literary Theory"" (pp. 200-1)裏頭的一段話。那段話，也是我自從會寫文章以來，心裏深深深深深的一個同感。我不厭其煩把它抄下來好了。

他說:

Department of literature in higher education, then, are part of the ideological apparatus of modern capitalist state....There is of course no harm in students questioning the values conveyed to them: indeed it is part of the very meaning of higher education that they should do so. Independent thought, critical dissent and reasoned dialectic are part of the very stuff of a humane education: hardly anyone...will demand that your essay...arrives inexorably at certain pre-set conclusions. All that is being demanded is that you manipulate a particular language in acceptable ways. Becoming certificated by the state as proficient in literary studies is a matter of being able to talk and write in certain ways. It is this which is being taught, examined and certificated, not what you personally think or believe, though what is thinkable will of course be constrained by the language itself. You can think or believe what you want, as long as you can speak this particular language. Nobody is especially concerned about what you say, with what extreme, moderate, radical or conservative positions you adopt, provided that they are compatible with, and can be articulated within, a specific form of discourse. It is just that certain meanings and positions will not be articulable within it. Literature studies, in other words, are a question of the signifier, not of the signified. Those employed to teach you this form of discourse will remember whether or not you were able to speak it proficiently long after they have forgotten what you said.

這意思簡單說是這樣：

對一個壞蛋當家的世界來說，不管你寫什麼、想什麼都不是很重要，即使內容多麼原創、多麼基進或激烈，壞人們都不怕，因為，重要的是你怎麼說，而不是說什麼。當人們忘記 (或者，也許從來沒有真的明白過) 你說的話之後，他們還是記得你是否熟練某種合法的說話方式。

壞人想要這麼做當然是有原因的，因為，當你enjoy某種說話方式的時候，你也就忘了你本來是要說什麼。

怎麼說是重要的，因為，它決定了我們能說什麼。他媽的就是他媽的，改裝成比較文雅的his mother’s，意思就不一樣了。

世界上，如果有什麼醜聞或災難，我看不是麥當奴，也不是最佳女主腳，更不是槍炮飛彈，而是教你怎麼說話的那一群人，有「學術型」、有「溫馨型」、有「道德型」、有「家教良好型」。他們共同擁有一套合法的說話方式。

電影導演高達說：「電影裏頭沒有槍炮一般的力量」，我看學術也是，它裏頭只有使人變蠢的力量，而沒有槍炮，當然也沒有解放。因為，這東西是壞蛋發明的。它像個蚊子燈，吸引一堆蚊子，觸身即亡，少有例外。

我這麼說，好「基進」(radical) 啊！不是嗎？！可是，把我打死我也不會相信有多少人「「「「真的」」」」會在乎我說的這些想法。因為，嘴巴上說我說的這些話很有道理的人，在行為上都已經證明他們一點都不信。

這顯然是個大醜聞，我們都身陷其中，難以自拔。不過，我相信我可以帶著氧氣筒逃出來，像「飛越杜鵑窩」那個印第安人那樣，破窗而去。