真实的虚无和虚拟的”选择“ - 猜火车2与《黑客帝国》
看了<猜火车2>，电影里更新了20年前第一集里的"choose life演讲“
20年前的选择 - 青年，20世纪90年代
工作，职业发展，家庭，大电视，洗衣机，汽车，CD机，电子开罐器，身体健康，低胆固醇，牙医保险，固定利率房贷还款，首次置业，朋友，休闲服，皮箱，三件套，DIY, 在周日晚上疑惑自己到底是谁？坐在沙发上看让人心灵麻木，碾压灵魂的有奖竞赛节目，还一边吃着垃圾食品，在生命的最后烂掉，在一个悲惨的家里挂掉，不过是一个让那些自私，操蛋的，你大量繁殖出来的孩子们难堪的物件。
20年后的选择 - 中年，21世纪10年代
个性内衣，手袋，高跟鞋，羊绒和丝绸，产自中国的iPhone, 出自一个从窗户跳出去的女人之手，南亚假名牌，Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, 以及一千种你向从未谋面的人吐露任何你知道的事情的其他方式，更新你的个人信息，告诉全世界你吃了什麽早餐并且希望在某个地方有某个人会在乎，重续旧情，绝望的坚持认为你比他/她们看上去要好些，不停发博客实时直播，从你第一次撸管到咽下最后一口气。人与人的互动简化成仅仅是数据。选择你不知道的十件事，关于做过整容塑形手术的名人。为堕胎尖叫。强奸笑话，荡妇羞辱，复仇裸照门，以及无穷无尽让人郁闷的厌女情节。选择9/11从没发生过，如果它发生了，那是犹太人干的。选择一个零时工合同（雇主不保证工作时间的按工时付薪合同）和花俩小时在上班路上，然后为你的孩子做同样的选择，只是更差。也许自己告诉自己这些都没发生过，然后坐下来放松，用有人在自己的烂厨房里配的不知道多大剂量也不知道是什麽的迷药来抚慰自己的痛苦。选择没有实现的诺言，并且希望自己根本没有那麽做过。从来不从自己的错误里反省学习。选择看着历史不断重演。选择总是太迟才反省和接受你能得到的，而不是你总是想要的。接受更少的所得并且装作若无其事。选择失望。选择失去你爱的人。当他们离开你视野时，你自己的一部分也随他们而去。直到未来有一天，你会看到，一点一点，它们都会离你而去。最后任何能让你说得上是活着还是已经死去的部分都没有剩下。选择你的未来，选择你的生活。不管怎样，“选择”给我们带来此时此刻的愉悦。
虽然具体”选择“与时俱进了，而且20年后一个中年人经历过的”选择“不同于20年前的小伙子。但根本上所说的是没有选择，或者只有幻觉中的”选择“。
这段话实际讲得是生活的虚无主义，我们的生活都是被设计好的，没有真正的选择，只有虚拟出来的”有选择“的幻觉。如人类学家Natasha Schull所说的”美国人（也包括中国人，英国人，澳洲人。。。）面对太多’选择‘，但这些不是真正的选择。他们只是提供一种‘选择’的幻象-恰好足够让人感到有太多‘选择’，而并不足以实现一种有意义的生活。“ 就像沉迷赌博和电脑游戏中的人，他们并非是为了赢，而是为了逃避现实。而对于”现实“中的人，我们告诉自己有”选择“，只是为了逃避现实生活中的”选择“并没有真实意义的事实。 （As in <Alone together>: anthropologist Natasha Schull argues that Americans face too many choices, but they are not real choices. They provide the illusion of choice - just enough to give a sense of overload, but not enough to enable a purposeful life (Ref 12: Natasha Schull, Addiction by Design. On the issue of unreal choices, Schull refers to the work of psychologist Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less(New York: Harper Collins, 2003)). To escape, gamblers flee to a machine zone where the goal is not to win but to be. Gambling addicts simply want to stay in the game, confortable in a pattern where other things are shut out. To make her point, Schull cites my work on the psychology of video games. From the earliest days, video game players were less invested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and video game players share a life of contradiction: you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game. But then the game so occupies you that you don't have room for anything else. ）
所谓”现实“社会也并不是真实的，而只是用来掩饰虚无的一种虚拟现实。如电影《黑客帝国》里所讲。
Quote #1”Morpheus: 什麽是真实？你怎麽定义真实？如果你说的是你能感觉到的就是真实，你能闻到的，你能尝到和看到的，那麽“真实”不过是由你大脑解读的电信号。“
Quote #2”Morpheus: The Matrix到处都是。我们被它包围着。即使现在，在这间屋子里。当你望向窗外时，或是你打开你的电视时，你能看见它。你去上班时能感觉到它。。。当你去教堂时。。。当你交税时。它是遮挡在你眼前让你看不到事实的这个世界。
尼奥：什麽事实？
Morpheus: 你是个奴隶的事实。尼奥。像所有其他人一样，你生于束缚之中，生于一座你无法品尝到，无法看到，无法触碰到的牢狱之中。一座你心灵的监狱。）“
不需要人工智能，我们早就生活在The Matrix里，而the matrix并不是真实社会，而是一个simulacra, 虚拟出的虚无，而真实社会已经不存在了。这也是激发《黑客帝国》电影想法的哲学书《Simulacra and simulation》所说的现实社会的虚拟和虚无的真实。也很符合佛家所讲的”空“和虚无。
Appendix
20年前的选择：
”Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the **** you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?“
20年后的选择：
”choose a designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes. Cashmere and silk to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window, and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and a thousand other ways to spew your bile (like spill one's guts - to confess all that one knows) across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile. Tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames (找回旧情人). desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging from your first wank to your last breath. Human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who'd had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut shaming, revenge porn, and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work, and choose the same for your kids, only worse. And maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened. and sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it(装作若无其事). Choose disappointment. And choose losing the ones you loved. And as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them. Until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone. And there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life. Anyway, it amused us at the time.“
20年前的选择 - 青年，20世纪90年代
工作，职业发展，家庭，大电视，洗衣机，汽车，CD机，电子开罐器，身体健康，低胆固醇，牙医保险，固定利率房贷还款，首次置业，朋友，休闲服，皮箱，三件套，DIY, 在周日晚上疑惑自己到底是谁？坐在沙发上看让人心灵麻木，碾压灵魂的有奖竞赛节目，还一边吃着垃圾食品，在生命的最后烂掉，在一个悲惨的家里挂掉，不过是一个让那些自私，操蛋的，你大量繁殖出来的孩子们难堪的物件。
20年后的选择 - 中年，21世纪10年代
个性内衣，手袋，高跟鞋，羊绒和丝绸，产自中国的iPhone, 出自一个从窗户跳出去的女人之手，南亚假名牌，Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, 以及一千种你向从未谋面的人吐露任何你知道的事情的其他方式，更新你的个人信息，告诉全世界你吃了什麽早餐并且希望在某个地方有某个人会在乎，重续旧情，绝望的坚持认为你比他/她们看上去要好些，不停发博客实时直播，从你第一次撸管到咽下最后一口气。人与人的互动简化成仅仅是数据。选择你不知道的十件事，关于做过整容塑形手术的名人。为堕胎尖叫。强奸笑话，荡妇羞辱，复仇裸照门，以及无穷无尽让人郁闷的厌女情节。选择9/11从没发生过，如果它发生了，那是犹太人干的。选择一个零时工合同（雇主不保证工作时间的按工时付薪合同）和花俩小时在上班路上，然后为你的孩子做同样的选择，只是更差。也许自己告诉自己这些都没发生过，然后坐下来放松，用有人在自己的烂厨房里配的不知道多大剂量也不知道是什麽的迷药来抚慰自己的痛苦。选择没有实现的诺言，并且希望自己根本没有那麽做过。从来不从自己的错误里反省学习。选择看着历史不断重演。选择总是太迟才反省和接受你能得到的，而不是你总是想要的。接受更少的所得并且装作若无其事。选择失望。选择失去你爱的人。当他们离开你视野时，你自己的一部分也随他们而去。直到未来有一天，你会看到，一点一点，它们都会离你而去。最后任何能让你说得上是活着还是已经死去的部分都没有剩下。选择你的未来，选择你的生活。不管怎样，“选择”给我们带来此时此刻的愉悦。
虽然具体”选择“与时俱进了，而且20年后一个中年人经历过的”选择“不同于20年前的小伙子。但根本上所说的是没有选择，或者只有幻觉中的”选择“。
这段话实际讲得是生活的虚无主义，我们的生活都是被设计好的，没有真正的选择，只有虚拟出来的”有选择“的幻觉。如人类学家Natasha Schull所说的”美国人（也包括中国人，英国人，澳洲人。。。）面对太多’选择‘，但这些不是真正的选择。他们只是提供一种‘选择’的幻象-恰好足够让人感到有太多‘选择’，而并不足以实现一种有意义的生活。“ 就像沉迷赌博和电脑游戏中的人，他们并非是为了赢，而是为了逃避现实。而对于”现实“中的人，我们告诉自己有”选择“，只是为了逃避现实生活中的”选择“并没有真实意义的事实。 （As in <Alone together>: anthropologist Natasha Schull argues that Americans face too many choices, but they are not real choices. They provide the illusion of choice - just enough to give a sense of overload, but not enough to enable a purposeful life (Ref 12: Natasha Schull, Addiction by Design. On the issue of unreal choices, Schull refers to the work of psychologist Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less(New York: Harper Collins, 2003)). To escape, gamblers flee to a machine zone where the goal is not to win but to be. Gambling addicts simply want to stay in the game, confortable in a pattern where other things are shut out. To make her point, Schull cites my work on the psychology of video games. From the earliest days, video game players were less invested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and video game players share a life of contradiction: you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game. But then the game so occupies you that you don't have room for anything else. ）
所谓”现实“社会也并不是真实的，而只是用来掩饰虚无的一种虚拟现实。如电影《黑客帝国》里所讲。
Quote #1”Morpheus: 什麽是真实？你怎麽定义真实？如果你说的是你能感觉到的就是真实，你能闻到的，你能尝到和看到的，那麽“真实”不过是由你大脑解读的电信号。“
Quote #2”Morpheus: The Matrix到处都是。我们被它包围着。即使现在，在这间屋子里。当你望向窗外时，或是你打开你的电视时，你能看见它。你去上班时能感觉到它。。。当你去教堂时。。。当你交税时。它是遮挡在你眼前让你看不到事实的这个世界。
尼奥：什麽事实？
Morpheus: 你是个奴隶的事实。尼奥。像所有其他人一样，你生于束缚之中，生于一座你无法品尝到，无法看到，无法触碰到的牢狱之中。一座你心灵的监狱。）“
不需要人工智能，我们早就生活在The Matrix里，而the matrix并不是真实社会，而是一个simulacra, 虚拟出的虚无，而真实社会已经不存在了。这也是激发《黑客帝国》电影想法的哲学书《Simulacra and simulation》所说的现实社会的虚拟和虚无的真实。也很符合佛家所讲的”空“和虚无。
Appendix
20年前的选择：
”Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the **** you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?“
20年后的选择：
”choose a designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes. Cashmere and silk to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window, and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and a thousand other ways to spew your bile (like spill one's guts - to confess all that one knows) across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile. Tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames (找回旧情人). desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging from your first wank to your last breath. Human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who'd had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut shaming, revenge porn, and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work, and choose the same for your kids, only worse. And maybe tell yourself it's better that they never happened. and sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it(装作若无其事). Choose disappointment. And choose losing the ones you loved. And as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them. Until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone. And there'll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life. Anyway, it amused us at the time.“
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