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反對電子郵件
Against email

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電子郵件是一種便利、高效的現代通訊工具。表面上看,收發郵件輕而易舉,但實際上它對個人的要求近乎苛刻:寫郵件時你必須注意書信文體,收到郵件必須快速回復;為了避免不恰當的言辭,你還不能在眩暈、生氣、疲倦或醉酒時寫郵件。

By Sasha Issenberg

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反對電子郵件

In the early days of the inbox, it afforded the na?ve human organism a certain pleasure to receive an email.[1] Ah,someone thinking of me... So a note or two of greetings whistled through the lonely day.[2] Thanks to email, the eloquence of a moribund letter-writing culture received a rejuvenating jolt of immediacy.[3] As late as the late 1990s and early 2000s, during the last days of dial-up, it still felt nice to send and receive the occasional squib, to play an epistolary game of catch with some friends.[4] Sometimes you would even forward a joke, a larky practice that nowadays seems an unconscionable crime.[5]

For it has lately become clear that nothing burdens a life like an email account. It’s the old story: the new efficient technology ends up costing far more time than it ever saves, because it breeds[6] new expectations of what a person can possibly do. So commuters[7] in their fast cars spend hours each day in slow traffic, and then at the office they read and send email.

Correct emailing practice does not exist. The true mood of the form is spontaneity, alacrity[8]—the right time to reply to a message is right away. But do that and your life is gone. So you reject the spontaneous spirit of email; you hold off[9] replying for hours, days, even weeks. By then the initiatory email has gone stale, and your reply is bound to be labored.[10] You compensate for the offence with a needlessly elaborate message.

You ask polite questions to which you pray there will never come an answer. Oh, but there will.

Of course you could always reply gruffly, and in lowercase.[11] Moreover, you could refuse to reply at all except where some practical matter was at issue. But Western civilization has always reserved for correspondence its most refined gestures of courtesy, and a memory of the old days persists.[12] Over email, you can be in touch with so many people—and make each one mad at you. And they are mad at you, your former friends, because no more

efficient vehicle for the transmission of rashness and spleen has ever been devised than the email.[13] Nettled by something—often something imaginary, since no one’s tone comes across quite right, over email—you lash out instantaneously.[14] You hit SEND and it’s too late. It’s too late because it’s too soon.

Email is good for one thing only: flirtation[15]. The problem with flirtation has always been that the nervousness you feel in front of the object of your infatuation deprives you of your wittiness.[16]

But with email you can spend an hour refining a casual sally.[17] The email, like the Petrarchan sonnet, is properly a seduction device.[18] But one has many correspondents, and few if any lovers. Individually, they’re all decent people; collectively, they form

an army marching to invade your isolation and ransack[19] your valuable time. Nietzsche declared that one should set aside an hour a week for reading letters; anything more was toxic.[20]

And now we read in the paper where Gloria Steinem[21] is complaining that she spends three hours a day replying to email. America, most efficient country on earth, is in fact a nightmare economy of squandered[22] time. Our economic system condemns people to[23] work in offices and send email; that’s what they do there. Then they go home and take with them all the work they were supposed to be doing all day.

We too have sometimes been the have-nots[24] in the email economy. In the role of supplicant emailer, we have labored to achieve the impossible right tone: so winning that others will have to write back,[25] so casual you can pretend it doesn’t matter when they don’t. The whole thing is painful all around. And this, finally, is what must be understood: email, which presents itself as a convenience, a breeze, is in fact a stern disciplinary phenomenon.[26] You must not stray[27] too far from your desk. You must be polite, you must write back soon. And yet in order to strike the right note, you must not write when too giddy,[28] angry, tired, or drunk. Always at the disposal of email, never, except guiltily, at the disposal of your moods...[29] It fits our phase of capitalism: the collective attitude is casual, natural-seeming, offhand; the discipline is constant and intense.[30]

For a while, email, in its efficiency, had seemed to serve very nicely the means of production and their owners. But lately, the business pages report a dialectical reversal whereby the means of communication overwhelm the means of production,[31] so that the class of owners and managers can hardly do or even supervise any work; they can only discuss,over email, the things they should be doing.

Western civilization has become a giant inbox; it will swell and groan but never be empty till it crashes.[32] Yes, it may be that all of us together, tapping out ephemera at our keyboards, will bring down this civilization once and for all.[33]

1. inbox: 收件箱;afford: 給予;na?ve: 幼稚的;human organism: 人體組織。

2. 就這樣,一兩封簡短的問候信在孤獨的日子里嗖嗖傳遞著。

3. 多虧電子郵件,寫信這種行將消失的文化行為,在生動流暢的基礎上,又獲得了一種直接性和即時性,從而突然變得煥然一新。

4. dial-up: 撥號上網,20世紀90年代剛有互聯網的時候,撥號上網是一種較普遍的上網方式,進入21世紀,它又逐漸被其他方式所取代; squib: (幽默的)短文;epistolary: 用書信進行的。

5. forward: 轉發;larky: 鬧著玩的;unconscionable: 無禮的,過分的。

6. breed: 引起,造成。

7. commuter: 通勤者。

8. mood: 基調;spontaneity: 自發性,形容詞為spontaneous;alacrity: 爽快,欣然。

9. hold off: 拖延。

10. go stale: 走味,變舊;labored: 不自然的,矯揉造作的。

11. gruffly: (態度)生硬地;in lowercase: 用小寫字母,表示無關緊要的事情。

12. correspondence: 通信,correspondent指“通信者”;refined: 優雅的;

cour tesy: 謙恭,禮貌。這句話的意思是:通信者應該始終保持謙恭禮貌的態度,包括及時回信。

13. 他們——你以前的朋友們——很生你的氣,因為沒有什么工具設計得能比電子郵件更直接有效地傳遞你的輕率魯莽和壞脾氣。

14. 你被一些事情激怒后——常常是想象出來的事情,因為在電子郵件中,沒有誰的語氣能完全準確地傳達——即刻予以猛烈回擊。

15. flirtation: 調情,挑逗。

16. infatuation: 熱戀,迷戀;wittiness: 機智,隨機應變。

17. refine: 提煉(文字等),使(語言等)文雅;sally: 俏皮話,妙語。

18. Petrarchan sonnet: (彼特拉克推廣的)彼特拉克體十四行詩,彼特拉克(1304—1374)是意大利詩人、歐洲人文主義運動的主要代表,著有愛情詩《抒情詩集》,他在這部十四行詩集中贊美了一個名叫勞拉的女子;seduction: 引誘,誘惑。

19. ransack: 掠奪,剝奪。

20. Nietzsche: 尼采(1844—1900),德國哲學家;toxic: 非常有害的。

21. Gloria Steinem: 格洛麗亞?斯泰納姆,美國女權運動家、記者。

22. squander: 浪費,揮霍。

23. condemn sb. to: 迫使某人處于(不幸的狀態或位置)。

24. have-nots: 窮人,貧民,此處指寫電郵不是件容易的事。

25. supplicant: 懇求的;labor: 努力爭取;winning: 有吸引力的,討人喜歡的。

26. breeze: 輕而易舉的事;stern: 苛刻的,嚴肅的;disciplinary: 紀律的,懲戒性的。

27. stray: 離開,游離。

28. strike the right note: 說得恰當;giddy: 暈眩的。

29. at the disposal of: 受……的支配;guiltily: 內疚地。

30. 這一點與我們所處的資本主義階段相符:共有的姿態是隨意、貌似自然、滿不在乎;而要求卻是始終存在、十分嚴格的。

31. business pages: 指商業報刊;dialectical: 辯證的;reversal: 逆轉;overwhelm: 超過,此處指商家要耗費大量的時間于電子郵件的往來通信上。

32. 西方文明已然變成了一個巨大的“收件箱”;它將不斷膨脹、負重累累,直至崩潰——這時方能全部清空。

33. 作者認為電子郵件耗時費力,如果人人都在收發郵件上投入過多的精力,人類文明必將面臨巨大的災難。ephemeral: 生命短暫的事物,指電子郵件。

(來源:英語學習雜志)

 

 
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