审美与功利(3)
为了满足它们贪得无厌的需求，我们不得不用一辈子的光景彼此竞争稀有资源，比如青少年时期的重点学校、青年时期的薪水和职位、中年时期的事业有成和家庭美满、老年时期的子女的事业和前途。我们就像一个上紧了发条的时钟一刻不停地往前冲，抓住所有对自己有利的东西去哄我们“内在的婴儿”别哭，总之，为了活得更好我们不得不做功利主义者。
In spite of the fact that secular fame and gain are good for our survival, they not only failed to make us happy, but become the root of our suffering in many ways. In order to achieve fame and wealth, one has to pay the price. The more benefit one wants, the more the price increases exponentially: if you just want to maintain a basic living, you can get the result with the same amount of effort; if you want to lead a privileged life, you need to work overtime to get the same result with double amount of effort; if you are so avaricious to lead an extravagant life, you have to do the best you can to get the same result with triple or quadruple amount of effort. Take smart phone as an example, if you just want a mobile phone with the function of call, answer, photograph and chat, you can buy yourself one without any difficulty; if you want the latest iphone, you have to bite the bullet, take out a large amount of savings and cut daily expenses; if you follow the fashion and intend to keep the latest iphone at hand at all times, you have to empty your pocket and be at the mercy of money, luxuries and desire. Sometimes we are too impotent to abandon our desire. When the latest iphone hits the market and the little thing in my hand is on the way out, I have a desperate urge to get rid of the old one and take possession of the new one. Only with great efforts that I dismissed the idea and persuaded myself to keep that seemingly stale, old and broken thing. Sometimes I feel our mortal beings have no other choice but to be slaves of desire and at the mercy of it. In the meantime, the satisfaction of it is not once and for all. We can get temporary pleasure when it is just satisfied, but it won't be long before it stages a comeback and be a "crying infant" again. So, we can come to the conclusion that utilitarian point of view can by no means bring eternal happiness to us. To achieve it, we have to learn to employ aesthetic view of point. When it comes to aesthetics, the first thing springs to my mind is art, such fine art, music, dance and drama. Definitely, it's an inertial thinking to link art with aesthetic, science with truth and morality with goodness. When we adopt the utilitarian thinking, neither of us can get rid of subject-object dualistic division: we see ourselves as subjects and everything we confront as object. To achieve fame, wealth and get everything beneficial, we have to be well acquainted with laws of myriads of things: the natural law, the law of human society and the law of historical development, and then put everything at the service of us, (to manage all sorts of people, we need even to be acquainted with human nature, and only in this way can we avoid the increment of the cost when situation gets complicated). For the reason that the wide world is too complicated to handle and the wisdom of our human beings is too limited to master the ultimate law, in most cases, subjects, instead of letting objects play the part of a "good boy", are often handicapped by them. Hence the consequence this kind of way of thinking constantly leads to is a feeling of anxiety.
In spite of the fact that secular fame and gain are good for our survival, they not only failed to make us happy, but become the root of our suffering in many ways. In order to achieve fame and wealth, one has to pay the price. The more benefit one wants, the more the price increases exponentially: if you just want to maintain a basic living, you can get the result with the same amount of effort; if you want to lead a privileged life, you need to work overtime to get the same result with double amount of effort; if you are so avaricious to lead an extravagant life, you have to do the best you can to get the same result with triple or quadruple amount of effort. Take smart phone as an example, if you just want a mobile phone with the function of call, answer, photograph and chat, you can buy yourself one without any difficulty; if you want the latest iphone, you have to bite the bullet, take out a large amount of savings and cut daily expenses; if you follow the fashion and intend to keep the latest iphone at hand at all times, you have to empty your pocket and be at the mercy of money, luxuries and desire. Sometimes we are too impotent to abandon our desire. When the latest iphone hits the market and the little thing in my hand is on the way out, I have a desperate urge to get rid of the old one and take possession of the new one. Only with great efforts that I dismissed the idea and persuaded myself to keep that seemingly stale, old and broken thing. Sometimes I feel our mortal beings have no other choice but to be slaves of desire and at the mercy of it. In the meantime, the satisfaction of it is not once and for all. We can get temporary pleasure when it is just satisfied, but it won't be long before it stages a comeback and be a "crying infant" again. So, we can come to the conclusion that utilitarian point of view can by no means bring eternal happiness to us. To achieve it, we have to learn to employ aesthetic view of point. When it comes to aesthetics, the first thing springs to my mind is art, such fine art, music, dance and drama. Definitely, it's an inertial thinking to link art with aesthetic, science with truth and morality with goodness. When we adopt the utilitarian thinking, neither of us can get rid of subject-object dualistic division: we see ourselves as subjects and everything we confront as object. To achieve fame, wealth and get everything beneficial, we have to be well acquainted with laws of myriads of things: the natural law, the law of human society and the law of historical development, and then put everything at the service of us, (to manage all sorts of people, we need even to be acquainted with human nature, and only in this way can we avoid the increment of the cost when situation gets complicated). For the reason that the wide world is too complicated to handle and the wisdom of our human beings is too limited to master the ultimate law, in most cases, subjects, instead of letting objects play the part of a "good boy", are often handicapped by them. Hence the consequence this kind of way of thinking constantly leads to is a feeling of anxiety.
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