青菜萝卜与Just

这两种人大约有这样的特色：唯心的人比较倾向于绝对真理观。唯礼的人比较倾向于相对真理观。所以对于唯礼的人来说，青菜萝卜各有所好。唯礼的人又特别爱说：水至清则无鱼。也就是说他们相信水要混一点才好。

现在我就来复述一个唯心主义者说的一段话：

So quality is whatever you like it?  It angered him.  The great artists of history - Raphael, Beethoven, Michelangelo - they were all just putting out what people liked.  They had no goal other than to titillate the senses in a big way.  Was that it?  It was angering , and what what was most angering about it was that he couldn't see any immediate way to cut it up logically....

The word was "just".  Why should quality be just what you like?  Why should "what you like" be "just?"  What did "just" meanin this case?  When separated out like this for independent examination it becamse apparent that "just" in this case really didn't mean a damn thing....

哎，想偷懒做节译。。。难。。。继续打字。。。

It was a purely pejorative term, whose logical contribution to the sentence was nil.  Now, with that word removed, the sentence became "Quality" is what you like.  And its meaning was entirely changed.  It had become an innocuous truism.

He wondered why that statement had angered him so much in the first place.  It had seemed so natural.  Why had it taken so long to see that what it really said was :  "Why you like is bad, or at least inconsequential."  What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad, or at least unimportant in comparison to other things?  It seemed the quintessence of the squareness he was fighting.  Little children were trained not to do "just what they liked" but...but what?  ...Of course!  What others liked.  And which others?  Parents, teachers, supervisors, policemen, judeges, officials, kings, dictators.  All authorities.  When you are trained to despise "just what you like" then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others - a good slave.  When you learn not to "just what you like"  then the system loves you.  

青菜萝卜跟这个just 这个字有很多异曲同工的地方。 

当然在我讲品味男人品位时，其实只是在说笑，没有那么严重。 但是我一听人家讲青菜萝卜我就会生气。因为我听了太多次。 理由跟上面那个唯心者一样。 

虽然讲电影明星，没有什么哲学。但是即使这种话题也可以上升到哲学境界的。比如星探，他们找角色也可以是很大的一门学问。不单要看明星个人的品质，还要看观众是如何对他们假想的品质如何反应等等等等。

在说一个人的品质跟他的相貌也可以是一门学问。所谓的看相看相，不也跟易经一样的传延了几千年吗。