\( u+ ?- Y/ ^* P; ~' X 7 D0 ]( q5 D. ]" |公仔箱論壇Slavoj Zizek speaks at Occupy Wall St ) K' f' v% q& m5 s7 z公仔箱論壇"[They are saying] we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called socialists, but here there is already socialism — for the rich. They say we don’t respect private property. But in the 2008 financial crash-down more hard-earned private property was destroyed than if all of us here were to be destroying it night and day for weeks. They tell you we are dreamers; the true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers; we are the awakening from the dream that is turning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything; we are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself. We all know [inaudible] from cartoons. The cat reaches a precipice, but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath its ground. Only when it looks down and notices it he falls down. This is what we are doing here. We are telling the guys there on Wall Street, ‘Hey! Look down!’TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。5 {- g8 t# n- R( K; Z
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[inaudible] “… In 2011, the Chinese government prohibited on TV, film,and in novels all stories that [inaudible -- something about portraying"alternate realities or time travel"]. This is a good sign for China; it means people still dream about alternatives, so attacked and prohibited is dreaming.Here we don’t think of prohibition because [inaudible -- "history"?]has even oppressed our capacity to dream. Look at the movies that we see all the time. It’s easy to imagine the end of the world — an asteroid destroying all of life, and so on — but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism. So what are we doing here? Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from Communist times. A guy was sent to work in East Germany from Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors, so he told his friends, ‘Let’s establish a code.If a letter you get from me is written in blue ink, it is true what I say; if it is written in red ink, it is false.’ After a month, his friends get a first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: ‘Everything is wonderful here. The stores are full of good food, movie theatres show good films from the West, apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot find is red ink.’ This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want, but what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom, ‘war on terror,’ and so on, falsifies freedom.And this is what you are doing here: You are giving all of us red ink. 8 E, U( L4 X: q) D! Gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb $ m r$ a$ H# ]# R; D+ K& M, I" S2 F s2 { 9 N: E, q2 a$ Q/ n6 Q“There is a danger: Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember: Carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after when we will have to return to normal life. Will there be any changes then? I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like,‘Oh, we were young, it was beautiful…’ Remember that our basic message is, ‘We are allowed to think about alternatives.’ A taboo is broken. We do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do not want, but what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want? Remember: The problem is not corruption or greed; the problem is the system which pushes you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process in the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol,ice cream without fat. They will try to make this into a harmless moral protest, a decaffeinated protest. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of the world where to recycle Coke cans to give a couple of dollars to charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where one percent goes to Third World starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture [inaudible -- calls for "mic check"]… We can see that fora long time, we allowed our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back. " Z$ y' x Y9 e2 k( i/ i6 |TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。( n g0 J; j/ J+ T$ x8 i+ W
“We are not Communists, if Communism means the system which collapsed in 1990. Remember that today those Communists are the most efficient, ruthless capitalists. In China today we have a capitalism which is even more dynamic than your American capitalism but doesn’t need democracy, which means, when you criticism capitalism, don’t allow yourselves to be blackmailed that you are ‘against democracy.’ The marriage between democracy and capitalism is over. A change is possible.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb m* E6 h- F$ P
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“Now, what we consider today possible — just follow the media. On the one hand is technology and sexuality — everything seems to be possible. You can travel to the moon, you can become immortal by biogenetics,you can have sex with animals or whatever. But look at the field of society and economy — there, almost everything is considered impossible. You want to raise taxes a little bit for the rich, they tell you it’s impossible. We lose competitivity. You want more money for healthcare, they tell you, ‘Impossible!This means a totalitarian state.’ Is there something wrong with the world where you are promised to be immortal but they cannot spend a little more for healthcare? Maybe we have to set our priorities straight. We don’t want higher standards of living; we want better standards of living. The only sense in which we are Communists is that we care for the commons: the commons of nature,the commons of what is privatized by intellectual property, the commons of biogenetics. For this, and only for this, we should fight. Communism failed absolutely, but the problems of the commons are here. They are telling you we are not American here, but the conservative fundamentalists who claim they are‘really’ Americans have to be reminded of something: What is Christianity? It’s the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? It’s an egalitarian community of believers who are linked by love for each other and who only have their own freedom and responsibility to do it. In this sense the Holy Spirit is here now,and down there on Wall Street there are millions [?] who are worshiping blasphemous idols. So all we need is patience.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。2 q. d9 w% m% q0 F2 }9 _
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“The only thing I’m afraid of is that we will someday just go home, and then we will meet once a year, drinking beer and nostalgically remembering what a nice time we had here. Promise ourselves that this will not be the case. You know that people often desire something but do not really want it. Don’t be afraid to really want what you desire.” $ G( G, E: \2 u9 S1 \, ]! |5.39.217.76公仔箱論壇8 ^* [* i; j- x6 Q' N, _. ~
! W" M. h* Z! E& Y; o5 Q5.39.217.76第二幕，泡沫爆破，但銀行家不僅獲得納稅人拯救，而且幾乎是毫無附帶條件的拯救。相比之下，普通打工仔卻繼續為銀行家的罪孽受苦。5.39.217.76( `+ u+ k Y. p5 N) B5 K/ U
3 i# D( Q0 ]0 g# @2 T公仔箱論壇第三幕，銀行家恩將仇報，以行動──以及多得拯救行動而幸保不失的財富──支持有利他們的政客，跟拯救他們的民眾對著干。這些政客承諾，將確保銀行家的稅款持續低企，並會取消金融海嘯后實施的溫和規管條例。 * ?" c8 e. e3 k N( h9 F6 N # F9 H* u2 J8 l1 k8 u- F2 C! S4 atvb now,tvbnow,bttvb考慮到事情的發展，你又怎能不為示威者終於站起來而鼓掌？ 7 L3 m& L) ~" K5.39.217.76公仔箱論壇: U7 d5 T8 l. H3 A
的而且確，部分示威者穿著奇裝異服，喊著聽起來很無聊的口號，考慮到是次行動的開放性質，這是無可避免的。但那又如何？至少對於我個人而言，打扮光鮮的富豪──多得政府的擔保才能繼續安享富貴榮華──哀訴總統奧巴馬抹黑他們，此情此景比衣衫襤褸的年輕人抨擊消費主義討厭得多。 . J7 N* h+ |& z公仔箱論壇 ' W) a3 `0 z9 Q q9 X公仔箱論壇請記著，經驗清清楚楚地告訴我們，智慧並非西裝客的專美，不單如此，這些人並沒什麼智慧可言。當政治評論家在包括CNBC等電視台，諷刺示威者並不是認真的，請記著多少「認真的人」向我們派定心丸，斷言樓市並沒現泡沫，聯儲局前主席格林斯平（Alan Greenspan）料事如神，還有財政赤字將刺激利率急升。- s+ D! [/ _9 w6 `1 r
: `( F% T$ i2 R- g/ K( X+ Y5.39.217.76對示威較中肯的批評，是活動沒有提出特定的政治訴求。若示威者最低限度能就數個他們希望見到的重大政策轉變達成共識，相信會有幫助。但我們不應太介意缺乏實質訴求的問題，「佔領華爾街」示威者想要什麼已經很清楚，如何將之落實是政策知識分子及政客的責任。 % D+ _# A! \7 C0 f# wtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb6 S' B: I3 {/ Y4 f3 F' [5 R 民主黨有機會痛改前非 " r; W# _1 v0 \+ d+ o5 ^9 i經驗老到的示威搞手兼社會運動歷史學家耶塞遜（Rich Yeselson）建議，示威可以重點爭取紓緩在職美國人的債務擔子。我支持他的想法，因為此等紓債行動不僅有助經濟公義的伸張，對經濟復蘇也大有幫助。我提議示威者同時要求政府作出基建投資──而不是進一步減稅──以創造就業。在目前的政治氛圍下，上述兩點訴求都不會成為法例，但示威的目的就是改變政治氛圍。TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。$ j. [5 k. \% B1 v: o6 y$ L/ w
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而且，示威帶來了真正的政治契機。當然不是對今時今日的共和黨人而言，因為他們本能地與前總統羅斯福口中的「罪惡大富豪」（malefactors of great wealth）為伍。例如，麻省前州長羅姆尼（Mitt Romney）─順帶一提，他繳納的入息稅比例相信比很多美國中產小─就急不及待地批評，示威者「搞階級戰爭」。! @# @8 g j8 h+ }$ _; g
: a, e- q/ k. M( K8 {! c. f( YTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。反而，這次行動形同給予民主黨第二次機會。奧巴馬政府採納了有利銀行家的政策，不僅無法讓經濟穩步復蘇，銀行家更恩將仇報，跟他對著干，結果老早就流失了大量認同民主黨理念的潛在支持者。如今，奧巴馬所屬的政黨有機會痛改前非，方法就是以最認真的態度對待這些示威。% [( |7 G9 o8 X3 v
6 C' A0 a) m" Q; M& V9 u3 c: d5.39.217.76（1） 華爾街拒絕下「罪己詔」與美國民眾患難與共8 @1 z7 T$ m) i/ f8 H
在2009年五月由美國國會授權、總統簽署建立的「金融危機調查委員會」經過兩年的努力，終於在今年發佈了《金融危機調查報告》。在認定危機產生的根源時，該報告有下列重要結論：「金融危機可以避免；」「金融管制和監控大規模失靈讓國家的金融穩定遭受災難；」「主要金融機構公司治理和風險管理嚴重失靈是這次危機禍首之一；」「金融機構過度借貸、高風險投資和缺乏透明使之走上危機之路；」「政府沒有做好應對危機準備和沒有採取正確政策穩定金融市場；」「責任和道德出現了系統性的坍塌；」「房屋貸款機構和房屋貸款的過度債券化點燃和傳播了危機之火；」「個案型延伸產品」和「信譽評級機構的失誤」也是金融機器毀壞的緣由。由此可見，金融風暴的主要根源來自華爾街。 7 w( q) w& n( B4 `5 \4 e公仔箱論壇但在美國兩任、兩黨政府（布什和奧巴馬）用納稅人的錢對華爾街援手救市後，華爾街並未投桃報李，而是一方面囤積現金、一方面大量裁員，一方面繼續給高管發放高額獎金，同時還反對給富人加稅。當美國從中產階級到工人階級和底層階級生活水平全面下降，並為美國金融危機買單時，華爾街的貪婪和頑固必然引火燒身。 $ |% Q, D6 b% H/ b# l, CTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 3 C; Z8 B, A2 i0 @TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。 6 U% y# k, s/ [ S（2） 抗議運動反映了美國過去二十來年的抵抗「新自由主義」的努力 , }. o, s. U0 F: \對華爾街的抗議並非平地驚雷。早在70和80年代，無論是奧利弗-斯通的《華爾街》影片，還是主流政治經濟學家達爾的《美國經濟民主導論》和林德布洛姆的《政治和市場》，都提出了：過度的、通過非法和不道德手段促成的財富集中，已經開始腐蝕美國政治平等和民主制。但在里根和兩屆布什政府後，情況愈加惡化；麻省理工學院經濟學家西蒙-約翰遜稱之為「寧靜的政變」建立了美國的「金融寡頭制」。 ( ]% n6 V: w( l, L, r9 p5 L5.39.217.76美國的主流經濟學家，包括克魯格曼、薩克斯和森都對貧富分化拉大提出警告。許多紀錄片（例如邁克爾-莫爾）和暢銷書（例如蔡愛梅、珀金斯和哈維）都對新自由主義提出質疑。可以說，今天「佔領華爾街」運動的精神養料都來自於大學的課堂。抗議者其實是在實踐他們在大學裏學到的知識，試圖呼籲建立一個人民高於利潤、公正平衡增長的經濟秩序。+ B/ o) R& G0 \$ U, F. t, O
金融風暴的慘烈教訓說明，美國經濟、甚至國際經濟都不可能繼續架舊車、走老路。尤其難能可貴的是，許多抗議者都有高學歷，他們也在反思美國人的懶惰和放棄創新。所以，這不是單純的抗議富人，也是美國年輕的一代反思和擔當的表現。公仔箱論壇 E: A# ~: b" M; H) @ g* y. d" E. R3 @
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（3） 「佔領華爾街」可能引起「華爾街-華盛頓」關係的變革 - P8 \- d% c& l5 `" L( s9 A& YTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。有人說，「佔領華爾街」對於民主黨來說，相當於「茶黨」與共和黨的關係。其實，在這場廣泛的社會運動中，可以看到左、中、右各派的聲音。有的是要讓華爾街增加責任、減少貪婪；有的是要全面否定資本主義，給富人加稅；有的是要廢除聯邦儲備銀行；有的責怪奧巴馬。可見，「佔領華爾街」和「茶黨」都在挑戰「華爾街-華盛頓」過緊的曖昧關係。現在正值美國進入總統大選，如果奧巴馬想保住白宮，或誰能挑戰前者、入主白宮，都必須發揮智慧，回應美國社會中的抗 9 [5 u5 {8 o% N, hTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。議聲音。 % y/ G7 T' {+ u2 Z2 k" m5.39.217.76 . S! a$ N9 C: ^7 D+ j- K3 Otvb now,tvbnow,bttvb公仔箱論壇1 W9 {2 u5 B) z. k D t
% ?! ?- T. m. J% K7 E$ s a在「佔領華爾街」現場，我們可以看到無數華人媒體。中國方面對這場運動顯示出濃厚的興趣。中國有官方評論認為，這是美國民主根本制度的危機。其實，金融風暴後，必定帶來社會和政治危機。全球的「茉莉花革命」和美國的「佔領華爾街」只是未完結的社會、政治危機的一部分。一方面，我們要認識到，美國是危機驅使變革的體制；美國民主的價值不在於它保護自由權利，而在於人民可以反抗政府、捍衛自己的權利。另一方面，全球的社會、政治危機還在深化演繹，最後誰會存活、誰會消失，還需耐心看下回分解。' E3 N6 `) X4 J* r
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