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    10/11/2006

    坏事,好事

      前天买了本Steven Johnson《坏事变好事:大众文化让我们变得更聪明》。我去年看过对这本书的介绍,很感兴趣,不过读后感觉一般。Steven Johnson用并不充足和颇有争议的论据,试图表明以电子游戏、电影、肥皂剧和电视真人秀为代表的当代大众文化不是“垃圾速食”,而是带给人们全新认知挑战的有“营养价值”的东西。我一直认为所谓“益智”的说法是对游戏拙劣的维护,和把游戏称作“第九艺术”同样糟糕。况且对于那些习惯从道德层面评判游戏和其它大众娱乐的人们,“益智”也只不过益了不良少年和未来犯罪嫌疑人的智,倒不如干脆弱智一些的好。
      作者举了近年不少制作精良、有内容深度的游戏、电影、电视剧和真人秀的例子,用以说明此类大众文化在日渐走向成熟,进而又排出IQ统计数据,“顺理成章”地引入主题——这些东西让人们变聪明了。但他似乎忘记了更多的粗制滥造、肤浅空洞并且居然也能大火特火的同类产品,那些货色锻炼了人们什么能力?
      不过或许大家确实是变得更聪明了,至少我们这里是这样。赵丽华说大家现在喜欢拗口的东西,“这诗我怎么能一眼就能看懂呢?应该让我看不懂。”聪明的大家不仅玩游戏、看碟、挺超女,还搞起了诗歌评论,大众文化生活真是丰富多彩。
      如果某些事能被证明是好事,那它原本就应该不坏。坏事变好事的一种可能是:“好人”变成了“坏人”。

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    Feb. 15
    Wei Liuwrote:
    谢谢熊猫的关注,在这里写的很多东西没有直接的目的,某些内容或许只有我自己明白,呵呵~~
    Oct. 13
    Julianwrote:
    看了几遍,对于最后一句话还是不能很理解,大概还是没能摸透作者及这篇文字的目的吧。
    我觉得,有些游戏的诞生的确是承载着制作者的全部理想和精力的。对于这种作品来说,称之为“艺术品”应该不为过吧。而且这种艺术品并不在少数,只是面向的群体可能狭窄了一些——千里马也要伯乐来相的——只是如今这个时代,能够静下心来的人真的不多。
    自从从狗哥处得到小马的BLOG地址后我就一直关注着(虽然也没留过几次言),觉得这里的氛围冷静客观而又不失深度,我想小马、以及背后整个的家游团队都是这样的人吧。自己一直以来的向往,也应该是基于这个理由。
    Oct. 13

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