“Little Brother is watching you,” said no novel or movie ever. Almost every fictional dystopia — 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission — involves a vast and oppressive state, not a failed or ineffectual one. Because the most recent threats to civilisation were Hitler and Stalin, we expect the next one to take the same dictatorial form.
“小兄弟在看著你,”從來沒有小說或電影這么說過。幾乎每個虛構的反烏托邦故事——《1984》、《侍女的故事》(The Handmaid’s Tale),以及法國作家米歇爾?韋勒貝克(Michel Houellebecq)的《屈服》(Soumission)——都涉及一個巨大而高壓的政權,而不是一個失敗或軟弱無能的當局。因為人類文明之前面臨的最近的威脅來自希特勒和斯大林,我們預計下一個威脅也會以獨裁者為形式。
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