書評•評書｜駁王爾德

6 月 9 日

駁王爾德：To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

我對王爾德有種特殊的情結，雖然我很少對人講過，也從來沒有寫出來過。不過情結歸情結，我讀真正王爾德的作品並不多。這次，讀了一本小冊子，就是把他寫的關於社會主義的一篇長文給拿出來單獨出版了。

在沒有查閱很多背景知識的情況下，我摘錄了以下一些王爾德的觀點。

可反駁😊

And so Individualism exercises no compulsion over man. On the contrary, it says to man that he should suffer no compulsion to be exercised over him. It does not try to force people to be good. It knows that people are good when they are let alone. 26

其實，這是一個有意思的設定。我曾經多次碰到這個設定。就是一個人完全一個人的時候，沒有監控，沒有其他人看到你，你眼前放著錢，拿還是不拿？很明顯，王爾德覺得人之初，性本善。就不拿？

這週天氣不好，但是還是要收拾花花草草。於是，拿著一包工具就出去了，不僅給小樹澆水，還要剪一剪雜草等等⋯⋯這一包工具其實在早幾年一位鄰居奶奶搬去養老院之前她親戚來清房的時候送給我們的，一個髒到已經看不出白色是原來顏色的帆布包裡裝著一大堆生鏽或者快要生鏽的花園及戶外工具，其中至少很多工具都能追溯到二戰以前。沒想到，在一轉頭沒注意的功夫，放在地上的包包就被順手牽羊了。雖然那包包裡的工具都鈍了，也不值錢，可是我還是很生氣，在沒有監控的地方，我們一轉頭，這一包鄰居奶奶留下來的工具就這樣被順手牽羊了？？？

駁王爾德！

Individualism, then, is what through Socialism we are to attain to. As a natural result the State must give up all idea of government. It must give it up because, as a wise man once said many centuries before Christ, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone; there is no such thing as governing mankind. All modes of government are failures. 12

如果如👆這樣說，人類就是不能用來「管」的，所以任何形式的政府都是扯淡。無政府狀態呢？或許也不行。不然我的工具包包呢？😂

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. 8

... will benefit by the abolition of such private property. .... It is true that, under existing conditions, a few men who have had private means of their own, such as Byron, Shelley, Browning, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, and others, have been able to realise their personality more or less completely. Not one of these men ever did a single day's work for hire. They were relieved from poverty. 8

我在思考，真正財富自由的人是否能夠寫出體會人間疾苦的文字呢？為什麼不能🤔看看👆這些大師級的名字吧。沒有人比較過，財富自由的作家和幾乎無家可歸的作家之間產出的作品，究竟有幾多不同呢？

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

如果說除了我們自己，其他都是身外之物的話，我不應該為丟失那一包工具而傷心💔我能不能把這一丟失當作是一種共用呢？共享，社區共享？？！！救濟？

With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 9

我不確定如果真的將私有財產廢除的話，我們這可愛的人類社會能不能達到真正的美好、真正的擁有健康的個人主義。如果沒有對私有財產的認可，何來對個人的尊重呢？

駁王爾德。

可是，再反駁，王爾德的文字依舊美好著。偏執地美好著。