The Review Writing of《This is Water》
The author, David Foster Wallace, was considered by many to be one of the finest writers of his generation. He only gave one speech in public in all his life, in which he talked about his view of life. The speech happened in a commencement of Kenyon College in 2005. Now, the widely distributed video has been into a thin book, which name is “this is water”.
According to Wallace's view, the water was on behalf of the most obviously, the most important reality, but it was difficult to see or talk about; and “the same experience for different people may mean something completely different”, because everyone had a different “default settings” and a different way from the experience in the construction of meaning. Therefore, the ideal of liberal education was to make people out of this self center, learning to “how to think” and “thinking” control. Wallace then cut to the usual humor and plain philosophy from the contemporary urban life, pointing out the importance of maintaining vigilance and consciousness. At the same time, we should be free to choose the way of looking at things.
At the beginning of the speech, Wallace talked a story about the fish, and it is pointed out that “the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the hardest to see and talk about”. In our daily life, we tend to think that we are the absolute center of the natural, just like our default-setting. But most, we tend to automatically determine the thing, in fact, is completely wrong, even be fooled. Therefore in front of fact, we should learn to choose and think deeply. Then Wallace cited an example of the story of shopping in the supermarket. Just as our natural default-setting, we may think that traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines are pissed and miserable experience. When we think like this, we are operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that we are the center of the world, so that we feel the most boring and the most frustrating part in the adult world. However, if we changed our method of thinking, we may feel the difference of the things and make other choices. But doing like this is hard, needs will and mental effort. If we want to feel a meaningful and sacred experience instead of a crowed, loud, slow situation, the only thing we should do is to decide what to worship. We have the right to decided what to worship, but there are different kinds of freedom. The real freedom includes attention, and awareness, and displaying. In order to achieve this freedom, we should keep reminding ourselves “This is water” constantly. But it is hard to maintain awareness and activity in the adult world; we should keep study from now on.
As a famous saying said, life is not a lack of beauty, but the lack of eyes to find beauty. We should be good at discovering hidden in the things below the surfaceof things, it will open another world.
纪录片美丽中国在舒缓婉转的传统中国音乐中,伴随着森林草原、戈壁大漠、雪山圣湖、江河湖沼等优美的画面更替,种种中国特有的珍贵动物纷纷登场,一个可与赵忠祥为《动物世界》的配音相媲美的男中音,用同样舒缓的口吻娓娓道来,讲述动物的故事,自然地插入中国历史、文化、人文、宗教、民族、民俗等,比较客观地反映出中国的经济社会的发展变迁、人们生活方式的改变、与自然的相互作用与影响的幅幅画卷,引人遐思!
原来中国还有这样美的地方!对此,制片者除了惊艳,也指出了人类的发展给自然环境和可持续发展带来的压力与挑战,但不是抱着一种高高在上的姿态,而是非常理解地提到中国政府和人民为与自然和谐共存和保护环境所付出的巨大努力与积极成效。特别提及,***时代曾号召改造自然,相信“人定胜天”,但在总结经验教训后,中国已回归传统,追求人与自然之间的和谐共处。挑战是巨大的,但自然也有着神奇的力量,中国的环境问题在以缓慢的速度逐步改善,“只要人类有意愿(并付诸行动),自然界总会有办法(恢复)”。这是影片得出的一个重要结论。
这与西方媒体通常情况下一味炒作与渲染中国的环境问题有很大的不同。
秘鲁也有很多人或出于无知,或源于偏见,往往追随西方,刻意对中国的问题横加指责。去了中国,才发现大不一样,而惊叹于中国的发展,特别是平衡各种复杂矛盾与关系的高超艺术。
所谓“不当家不知柴米贵”,这么多的中国人不仅要生存,而且要发展,中国政府不仅要对本国负责,而且作为一个大国要对整个世界负责,面临的困难是外人难以想象的。有谁能真正肯定地给中国指明前进的方向?有谁敢夸口说放在那些个位上就有把握把中国的事情办得更好?
中国有几千年的智慧积淀,有海纳百川,包容世界的胸襟,中国的问题只有中国人通过自身的和谐发展才能解决得更好。
很高兴《美丽中国》这部片子与我经常向秘鲁朋友宣讲的某些思想不谋而合。江—山—如—此—多—娇,引无数英雄竞折腰!与中华民族多灾多难的近代世纪相比,今天我们可说是生逢盛世,怎当不备加努力。挑战和困难永远不会自动消失,但如能吸取教训总结提高,前途无疑是光明的。
读了《美丽中国》这本书,最让我深有感触的一章是《让流水更净》,因为这章讲述了水的重要性,更讲述了一些人爱水的故事。
水是地球上十分重要的东西,它给了我们生命,让我们人类成功生存并发展了6500万年,人类的历史无处没有水,我们应保护她。在书中,小学生、农民、普通的妇女,一次次用事实说明:保护水源并不难!
我们应向他们学习,他们能保护了水,我们也可以。就从身边做起吧!这都是很简单的:
一、不乱丢垃圾,垃圾都会被雨水冲进河里,你想喝泡过垃圾的水吗?
二、节约用水。把利用过的水再次循环利用,省去一些水。不去挥霍水,该用的就用,不该用时不用。
三、收集雨水。有条件的人就去屋顶上放个盆就行了,无论是大雨还是小雨,都能获得一定的水量。
在此,我呼吁身边的你我他,从小事做起,希望人人都能从身边做起,保护我们的生命之源。
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