论工业社会及其未来

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1、INTRODUCTION介绍1.TheIndustrialRevolutionanditsconsequenceshavebeenadisasterforthehumanrace.Theyhavegreatlyincreasedthelife-expectancyofthoseofuswholivein"advanced"countries,buttheyhavedestabilizedsociety,havemadelifeunfulfilling,havesubjectedhumanbeingstoindignities,haveledtowides

2、preadpsychologicalsuffering(intheThirdWorldtophysicalsufferingaswell)andhaveinflictedseveredamageonthenaturalworld.Thecontinueddevelopmentoftechnologywillworsenthesituation.Itwillcertainlysubjecthumanbeingstogreaterindignitiesandinflictgreaterdamageonthenaturalworld,itwillprobabl

3、yleadtogreatersocialdisruptionandpsychologicalsuffering,anditmayleadtoincreasedphysicalsufferingevenin"advanced"countries.1，工业革命及其后果为人类带来了极大的灾难。这两者极大地增加了我们这些生活在“发达”国家的人口的预期寿命，但也破坏了社会的稳定性，令生活空虚无谓，剥夺了人类的尊严，导致了心理疾病的扩散（以及第三世界里的生理疾病扩散），还严重地破坏了自然界。技术的继续发展将令上述情况进一步恶化。人类尊严必将遭到进一步剥夺，自然界也必

4、将遭到进一步破坏。社会也很可能遭到进一步扰乱，心理困扰将会加剧，而生理疾病甚至将会在“发达”国家蔓延开来。2.Theindustrial-technologicalsystemmaysurviveoritmaybreakdown.Ifitsurvives,itMAYeventuallyachievealowlevelofphysicalandpsychologicalsuffering,butonlyafterpassingthroughalongandverypainfulperiodofadjustmentandonlyatthecostofperm

5、anentlyreducinghumanbeingsandmanyotherlivingorganismstoengineeredproductsandmerecogsinthesocialmachine.Furthermore,ifthesystemsurvives,theconsequenceswillbeinevitable:Thereisnowayofreformingormodifyingthesystemsoastopreventitfromdeprivingpeopleofdignityandautonomy.2，工业-技术体系可能幸存也可

6、能崩溃。假如该体系幸存下来，可能最终将会降低生理与心理的痛苦水平，但在此之前必须经历一段漫长而痛苦的调整期，而且人类与众多其他生命体也将付出惨重代价，永远沦为社会机器上的齿轮。更有甚者，假如这个体系幸存下来，将会导致不可避免的后果：没有任何方法能够改革或改进这一体系，使之不至于剥夺人的尊严与自主。3.Ifthesystembreaksdowntheconsequenceswillstillbeverypainful.Butthebiggerthesystemgrowsthemoredisastroustheresultsofitsbreakdownwil

7、lbe,soifitistobreakdownithadbestbreakdownsoonerratherthanlater.3，假如这一体系崩溃，结果依旧会十分痛苦。但是体系规模越大，崩溃造成的结果就越可怕。因此假如真要崩溃的话最好赶早不赶迟。4.Wethereforeadvocatearevolutionagainsttheindustrialsystem.Thisrevolutionmayormaynotmakeuseofviolence:itmaybesuddenoritmaybearelativelygradualprocessspanning

8、afewdecades.Wecan'tpredictanyofthat.Butw