在野蛮的原始森林中呼喊
Isaac Newton sitting naked and crouched on a rocky outcropping, at the bottom of the sea.
Atlas | 2020.03.05
在野蛮的原始森林里，人们发声呼喊的目的，从来都不是为了说服不是同一语系的对象，而是为了让那些早已失散的同伴听到。让他们接收到一个信号：除了自己之外，还有其他人，在森林的另一头前行着。
《逃避自由》：极权主义的起源与终结
Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God gives life to Adam, the first man.
Atlas | 2017.04.30
奥威尔的《动物庄园》曾给我们讲过这样一个故事：曼纳庄园的主人琼斯先生被庄园中的动物们赶出了庄园，动物们在雪球和拿破仑这两头领袖猪的带领下开始实行自治，然而在革命的推进中，拿破仑用自己偷偷驯养的七条狗赶走了雪球，并开始用思想洗脑和暴力两种方式逐渐建立起极权统治。
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对话录：论暴民
Ta自称“V”。
Atlas | 2017.06.01
活死人：
看到你的头像改成了V字仇杀队了，请教你个问题，人民和暴民有啥区别？
夜行客：
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“思想”一词的堕落
鸵鸟的农场，尽是堕落的翅膀。
伯罗奔尼撒 | 2020.07.21
我们这个时代，也许是有史以来最为堕落的时代。堕落的标志之一，就是“思想”一词被变本加厉地践踏和轻视，成为爱拍马屁的文人用来讨好权力的道具。
究竟是从什么时候开始，“思想”一词竟变得如今这样低贱？难道只要拥有了权力，就可以将自身称为思想者？
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纳粹上台真的是人民的选择吗？
纳粹上台真的是人民的选择吗？纳粹政府又为什么要千方百计塑造这样一种形象？
高林 | 2020.03.31
提起纳粹，一般中国人最熟悉的或许是二战初期的闪电战，惨绝人寰的大屠杀以及纳粹德国最后的疯狂和毁灭。对于纳粹究竟是如何上台的，我们一般人只有一个模糊的印象，即——纳粹是依靠合法的民主选举上台的。我们的传统叙事把纳粹德国只当成某种魔鬼般的不可理喻的存在，以及以理性著称的德国人陷入了集体性的迷失。但实际上，在全球化日渐退潮，民粹主义和民族主义愈发强势的今天，搞清楚纳粹是如何以及为何上台，随着记忆的消退变得越来越重要。
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梁二：不栖
Cycling in the Alps
Pang | 2019.12.17
不好意思重发一次，之前在路上无法在文章里放视频。
这段MV是今年春天三月到六月时，我们经过法国和瑞士时拍的，主要记录我们每天扎营做饭以及路上见到的各种人物、动物、风景。
前后9分钟，没有说什么话，但配着Mew的Comforting Sounds，观看时最好带上耳机。
现在看来，那段旅程好像发生在另一个世纪，天真而遥远，每天就是最基本最简单的生活。虽然再过三个月我们又要回到路上，不知道是否还能进入那种无忧无虑的状态。
最后一段是从法国翻越一个山坳到达瑞士，看到云中的城市时，我兴奋地大叫。那天是六月九号。
2019年可能是我人生中最重要的一年。之前每个10年，我都以为自己变化足够大了，可能人到中年，会平稳下来，不再改变观念，不再接受不再愤怒不再恐惧不再茫然。这一年是一个响亮的反证。
新年快乐。
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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Jobs at Stanford during his 2005 Commencement speech.
| 2005.06.12
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.”
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college.
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I have a Dream
In his iconic speech at the Lincoln Memorial, King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society.
Dr. Martin Luther King | 1968.08.23
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
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