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来源A Message Too Powerful to Stop
译者longtingfang

中国,我们自己取名为人民共和国的国家——这名字很好啊,直到最近公开谈论政府依旧非常的难——套一句话,言论也不能放任,那个所谓自由不是绝对的。事实上也是,中国的政府与人民有十分的不同之处——你想想几乎已成铁律的劣根性就心宽了。韩寒,没有媒体会传播他的声音——也不啊,如果是商业性的话。但现在,有了滑溜溜不老实的互联网——的确是狡滑狡滑抓不住,这样的声音说出来,并四下传播。它们部分被黑掉,但没有停止。

这个月,28岁的韩寒,伊索般的机智高手——伊索,就是写儿童寓言的那位嘛,中国可能读者最多的博客作者,这样写到:

对于任何国家来说,国家就是一个女人(拿什么作比不好啊),执政者就是占有她的男人(晕菜),有幸福美满的(哦),有相处和睦的,有家庭暴力的,有关系紧张的, 有离婚再嫁的,有不能改嫁的,但无论如何,你爱一个女人总不能连她的男人也一起爱了去(啊)。

韩寒稍微不同于中国的“猛人”。他的文字辛辣讽刺,难以捉摸——他 “酷”语言的使用群是年轻人,那也正是他博客主要的读者群。这样遣词造句就像是投机倒把浑水摸鱼,但至少可以逃过封杀的命运。他的不同还在于他读者数量的巨大。互联网上,一个敢猛言的知识分子如果文章的点击量达到2000,他哥们就该感到幸运了。韩寒的博文则常常超过100万,同时还有成千上万的读者评论与留言。他的板凳可是价比千金。自从200611月他博客首开以来,他的博客已经拥有了4.21亿访问量。这巨大的读者群也是对他的保护,因为审查者会考虑关闭他博客可能触发的异常情况。

918,是1931年日笨入侵我国东北1八事件纪念日,韩寒写了一篇言辞锋利的文章,评论对日笨近日所作所为的抗议。98,一艘中国捉鱼船与两艘日笨水警巡逻舟舟发生物理学意义的碰撞,地点在双方有所有权争议的fishing岛海域。日笨官方逮捕了吾国船只负责人(明显有偏漏),并带回日笨锅拘留。此后我国许多城市,人们走上街头(有不实之处),捍卫民族的尊严和领土的完整。

在中国,反⊙抗议不时发生。一般地,政府欢迎他们,以带动国内的民意——是啊,我们党领导下的家国本来就有诸多问题,人们又总是把焦点聚于腐败、环境破坏之类之上。只是,抗议本身也是双刃剑,它可能把不合法的东东合法化。

以韩寒的观点,过去一月的反⊙被使用了。他在博客这样对同胞说(以下文字看看英文咋个说说):

There are three roles on Chinas stage today: master, lackey, and dog. Most of us switch between two of the three. (Which two? Well, you can hardly expect yourself to be the master, can you?) Normally what the master wants from the lackeys is craven docility, but right now he needs some yipping dogs. No problem! Because in a dogs mind, no matter how the master treats you, when an outsider shows up its your job to guard the homestead. …Deep inside, our leaders arent really angry. They just feel emasculated. And so, in their view, we are supposed to feel emasculated, too. But who ever took to the streets shouting Ive been emasculated!? That only makes things worse. During times when the leaders face is intact, they smack us in the mouth; when they lose face, were supposed to earn it back for them. How do we take this?

他对政府则这样放辞(看着英文感觉有不同乎):

Dont tell me that you and I are equally hurt by these motherland issues. … In our country the common people do not own one inch of the land; all the land, as you know, is rented from you. So from where I sit this issue resembles a tiff between my landlord and my neighbor over a tile that is lying on the ground. I know that the tile was blown off my landlords roof during a high wind, and also know that the landlord, who is afraid to fight the neighbor, has never dared to go fetch the tile. But what does that have to do with me, the tenant? Why should somebody with no land fight to get somebody elses land back? Why should a tenant with no dignity fight for his landlords dignity? How much are people like that worth, per pound? How many would it take to add up to one pound?

文章结尾,韩寒抛开寓言的腔调与话语模式,直白地说,“Protests against foreigners by people who are not allowed to protest at home are utterly worthless. They are nothing but a group dance.

当局显然无敢密西韩寒的博客。但他们将这篇特殊的文章删除,那是在他贴上去大约50分钟后。虽然只有50分钟,但足以秒杀进入上周一直火热关注此事的推特,并从那里传遍全球。

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