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作者：芦笛 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Two weeks ago, my friend called to tell me the good news. According to him, Cable now has provided a new service called "broad band" (or something like that). The new service could allow customers to browse the web much faster than before and it would not need a separate telephone line. So he recommend I apply for it.
"Thanks a lot for sharing this useful information with me. But I wouldn't need it. I have quit the web." I told him.
"You what?" He exclaimed at the other end of the line. "Come on, give me a break! Don't tell me you are going to give up writing again!"
"This time is for real." I said calmly.
In the end, he believed me, yelling very excitedly:
"Good! I am so glad you are finally able to see the most obvious. Can my wife and I pay you a visit this weekend? Ever since you got addicted to the web, you have become a hermit. Every time we try to visit you, you are always too busy to see us. Man, you need a social life! You cannot go on like this."
I agreed. So they came on the weekend and we had a very pleasant evening.
However, just moments ago, on my way to work, I was thinking about taking Plus Slave's advice to give Cable a call. Actually, I don't have to, for I have already had two CDs at home - Cable was so eager to catch me that they had sent twice the CD for me to open an account with them. What I'll have to do is to insert the disk, click the button, then that would be it. I would be back to this damn place this evening.
A tremendous urge was surging in my heart, prompting me to do that. I had every reason to have this urge. Yesterday I received a letter from a friend of mine, saying some people were still gossiping about me, analyzing my psychotic personality most excitedly. So I really wanted to come back and beat them into senses.
Even if I don't do it. At least I can post up the Chinese version of the comedy The Professor in the Class everywhere: all web sites at home and abroad. As it contains nothing politically sensitive, I am sure the domestic web masters would not delete it. So everyone would have a good laugh. The play would not only be entertainment, but some sort of education as well, as it provides the reader with a perspective and make him ponder how a person without the minimal ability to think could ever become a math professor in the first place. From there, he/she might start to think what has gone wrong with our education system which is also shared by the American counterpart.
But once again, I succeeded in suppressing the urge. It's not worth a damn. By doing this, I am going to repeat the unforgivable mistake once again.
When I first came to the web three years ago, I made a fundamental mistake. I thought this was a place where the fine products of a brilliant brain could be appreciated. Readers would be interested in thoughts, not in the author's literary talents or his/her personality or even his/her private life. That was basically the reason why I produced so many masterpieces in such a short time. I dare say that such tremendous contribution won't be matched by anyone till my death.
But I was totally wrong. Three years later, I come to realize the simple truth that people need the web in such a way as they need a toilet -- to get themselves relieved. They want to express their anger either for the communist bandits or for the American imperialists. For a time, I received applause, not because my thoughts were appreciated, but because I expressed their feelings. In other words, it does not matter if you have no minimal ability to think. It is your political stand that is all that maters.
So you can be a "master" if you showed off your deep hatred for "certain Party" (mou3 dang3). Even if you make a fool of yourself by inventing all the folly "theories" or "scientific laws", it won't matter, because people won't notice it. On the contrary, they will hate the person who stands out to point out those follies, for he has "assassinated" a master who could curse the Party for them.
In one word, the web is a place thronged with mobs. Ever since my youth, I had learned that mob was something really invincible. It's just like a monster with countless heads. No one, not even Sun Wukong, can beat such a monster. On the contrary, if you took it seriously, you would engage yourself completely in the endless fight, busy in chopping off those heads.
And that's exactly what has happened to me. Even I myself cannot keep count as to how many heads I have chopped off. Had I not been so talented, able to write all sorts of pieces, from political essays to traditional comic operas, I would have been eaten alive long ago. Even so, I did not win. I came, I saw, I fled.
So if I inserted the CD and came back, I would only get involved in that stupid business of chopping heads once again. I am really sick of it. Furthermore, as Qian Zhongshu said to his wife, Yang Jiang: "You will become low life yourself, if you get mixed with low lives." If you do not detach yourself from the mob, sooner or later you will become one of them. Looking back now, I find myself degraded to a stunning degree in merely three years time. Mob corrupts, the Chinese mobs are the worst, so they corrupt absolutely.
作者：芦笛 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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