周黎明：忠于现实才是大智慧[1]_其他

周黎明：忠于现实才是大智慧[1]

去年，我创作的剧目《环路》上演了。这是我以前写的一部剧，故事是部分地基于我个人的所见所闻。故事的主角是一对居住在硅谷的中国夫妇。丈夫想要回到中国，于是他列举出所有他觉得美国不可容忍的地方，比如说存在对亚洲人的晋升障碍，中产阶级逐渐失去社会地位等。妻子则说起一系列有关中国不好的地方的陈词滥调，例如污染严重，学校竞争压力巨大等。

I invited some friends to the dress rehearsal and their feedback disconcerted me. Some said my play was too pro-American and some too anti-America. I tried to explain that I did not have any political agenda either way, but I stopped midway. Instead I told them not to see it as an allegory, but as one man's journey through a real place, or more accurately, journeys of various characters I created from my observations.

我邀请了一些朋友观看这部剧的排练，而他们的反馈令我有些困惑不安。一些人说我的剧亲美色彩太重，另一些人则觉得它带有很强的反美意识。我试着向他们解释我并未在剧中隐含任何政治意图，但中途我便放弃了。与之相反，我告诉他们，我希望他们不要把这部剧看作是一个政治性的寓言，它只不过是我通过观察而创作出的真实反映人生旅途的一部作品罢了。

We all have our little prisms through which we see the world and which we cannot discard completely. But the ability to see a place for what it truly is, not what it is supposed to be, relies on the assiduous accumulation of knowledge. Only under the mountain of knowledge and impartiality will globs of prejudice crumble.