2008年4月4日 星期五

The Fellowship of the Ring

The world is changed.
I feel it in the water.
I feel it in the earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost.
For none now live who remember it.
...
The ring passed to Isildur who had this one chance to destroy evil forever.
But the hearts of the men are easily corrupted.
...
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
History became legend. Legend became myth. ...

很喜歡魔戒現身中片頭部份,凱特布蘭琪用著精靈女王的口吻在述敘戒指由來以及elf,people of middle earth與sauron之間的戰爭。特別是上面寫下來紅字的部份。

這其實很有黑格爾的味道--人類從歷史中得到的教訓是,人類沒有從歷史中得到教訓!--有誰會相信myth曾是history呢?不過中國人比較喜歡『天下大勢合久必分,分久必合』這種方式來阿Q一下,但是就我看來,這種在同一塊土地上的分分合合,不也表示了因為居住在其上的人沒有記取歷史教訓,所以不斷重覆相同的歷史,差別不過在於所分配到的名號不一樣罷了…

不過話說回來如果當執政者連歷史都杜撰一個給人民時,人民又能從那樣的歷史中,學到什麼樣的教訓呢?


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