4th italo calvino sharing - the black sheep 黑羊
This week we introduce another type of writing styles by Italo Calvino - Fable (raccontini, little stories), with the selected piece [the black sheep]. 他擅长的另外一种写作风格是寓言体文学，这次选了[黑羊]作为本次读书会的阅读小品。
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The story start with a country, where all the villagers are thieves.
从前有个国家，每个人民都是贼。
They steal things from neighbor's house everyday. Their own belongings likewise, stolen everyday.
他们每天都会偷邻居家的东西，同样地他们自身的物品每天都被偷。
Hence, nobody lost out. Everyone live happily together.
你偷我的，我偷你的，大家都没损失。
until one day, an honest man move to this country. He didn't follow others theft routine.
直到有一天，一个老实人来到这个国家定居。他并没有和其他人一样去偷东西。
He let others steal his thing without stealing anything from anyone. Means there's always someone found their house untouched, and include the things they steal, they became richer than others.
同时他无法阻止其他人偷他的东西。因此，总是有人发现他们家没损失，再加上他们本身行窃得到的东西，他们比其他人有了更多财富。
Conversely there's always someone who got nothing, but their belonging still stole by others, hence they became poorer.
相反地，总是有人无法偷取东西，而自身的财物却一直被偷，他们变得越来越穷。
So on and so on, the rich hire the poor to steal thing for them. When the rich started to afraid the lost of their belonging, police force & prison were set up. Rob & being robbed no longer exist in this country anymore.
日子持续演变，富人雇用穷人去替他们行窃，当富人越来越重视自己财物的遗失，他们便设立了警察和监狱。于是，再也没有什么偷和被偷的事情发生了。
The society started to re-structure in pyramid, where this is also the basic theory of capitalism.
社会结构开始变成金字塔状，这有点像我们熟知的资本主义
I illustrated the story for my own understanding, when i tried to remove or add on the grey box (represent one's belonging), I started to wonder how the changes happen. What if the honest man refuse to join the game, while other people remain theirs. Why one's uncooperative can't make the stop but make the change ?
通常我需要依靠图像来理解文字，尤其当中你偷我我偷你那一部分令我很困扰，当我尝试移动屋子的灰色方块（象征个人财物），我开始疑惑为什么你缺失的我就要补上。如果那位老实人不参与这场偷窃游戏，抑或贫富悬殊就只发生在老实人和那间富人家，其他人依旧平等地互偷。为什么一个人的不合作不是停止改变，而是产生改变呢？
In the story, the honest man was forced to follow the rules. When his nature unable to adapt himself to the society, he died of hunger in the end of story. This reflects our reality of bullying, for example the hottest news in Taiwan in recent days, regarding the little girl beheaded in a random knife kill. Some people would think is because of social exclusion since childhood, that turn this harmless balcksheep into bloody killer. Some people blame his parents for the tragedy, which this kind of negative public option turn them into black sheep relatively.
Sometimes, i see there's no fine line between bullying & free speech.
因此，故事中有提到，老实人是被迫遵守这个规则的。而当他的老实本性无法适应这个圈子的生存法则，他就死了。与我们现实的霸凌事件无异，谈及如今最火红的台湾女童砍头事件，有人反思嫌犯从小被排挤黑羊事件养成后患，也有人谴责他的父母，令他们在舆论中变成另一批被排挤的黑羊。
黑羊或许是言论自由底下相对的产物。
Words are powerful weapon that can either edify or destroy you. But how we realize when words are harsh ? We used to be black sheep, or white sheep, or victimize others due to the fear of being black sheep.
No matter how we condemn the acts of white sheep, or even though we knew criticism hurt sometimes, we still hardly to tear ourselves apart from commenting on any issues. (ain't say that you could bluster)
It is better that everyone don't position yourself as a black sheep, this probably will be the best ending i could imagine.
言语是一把利刀我们都知道，我们随时都在讲话几时变成利刀谁知道？
我们可能某些时候曾经是黑羊，曾经是白羊，或者害怕成为黑羊而披着白羊皮。
就算此刻我们再谴责任何白羊行为，也无法避免自己在发表立场时成了某一场悲剧的推手。
（当然不是说可以继续口出狂言啦）
我能想到最好的结局就是黑羊们不要有黑羊心态。（更加不是说你就继续骄傲自大不管别人）
,which i thought of a Korean Movie < Collective Invention>
这令我联想起曾经看过的一部韩国电影：<突然变异>
A man becomes a celebrity after a genetic splicing accident leaves him as a half man, half fish.
His father and close friends, some people took advantage from him by distributing his news, some hided him away from media scrutiny, and some suggested him to try different treatment options.
Media representatives get as much information as possible, and then reshape the news with the only selected highlighted keywords.
The vast majority people like us, always choose to feed by media with stories. Regarding with this issue, everyone will have their own opinion.
What I like the most about this movie is that it didn't deliberately portray the unfortunate man ( the so-called black sheep in this movie). At the end of the story, he rejected doctor's kindness to turn him back into human form, he rather be a fish, live forever under the sea. The chaos over the world were non of his business, he is happy enough to turn off from everything, that no longer being the victim of the tragedy.
有一个男子误食药物而变成半鱼半人的怪物，随之闹出很多新闻。
男子的亲人和好友，有的想利用他出名，有的觉得藏起来为他好，有的觉得应该尝试不同药物
媒体想取得任何有关鱼男的消息，不管好坏大小，只要新鲜。
普通百姓随着新闻的标题，谩骂、追星、同情。
我喜欢这部电影不刻意刻画受害者的悲情，将近结局时，鱼男拒绝医生让他重新变回人类的机会，选择做条鱼活在海里，亲人好友媒体全世界纷纷扰扰都不管我的事，我开心就好。他拒绝做黑羊。
（有人问：万一他在海里也被鱼类排挤.... / 那...可以拍续集了吧 -.- )
We used to read this story from "the black sheep is the victim" perspective, but what if he isn't ?
我们习惯以“黑羊是受害者“的角度来看这个故事，如果他并不是受害者，而是：
All villagers' life will go on as usual, without the existence of the honest man and his noncompliance.
Regardless the changes is good or bad, but at least it is a change. Reform movement always comes from different thinking and sacrifices.
We are born to be different from one another, but are we afraid of being different or dare of being different ?
如果那个老实人没有出现在这个国家，没有反抗规则，大家只会继续行窃的生活。
先暂且不论带来的改变是好是坏，但是社会发展就离不开改革，就必须对社会制度产生异议和... 牺牲者。
生而不同，我们怎么诠释“怯于不同”和“敢于不同”
I think Italo Calvino had played a little trick in this story, it was titled "the black sheep", where we used to describe odd people in a bad way. But a man with great honesty was the black sheep in contrast. He inadvertently deliver a message of " there is no absolute virtue or vice, they might subject to social status", or it is just a satire.
我个人觉得伊塔罗放了点小心思在这个故事里面。他故意将一个老实人比喻成黑羊，在我们认知的道德框架里，“诚实”是善；“不合作”是恶。但是在那个国家，偷窃行为是“对”，老实人不偷是“错”。也许他无意间向社会传递善恶无绝对，有时生存法则凌驾于是非。或者他只是单纯讽刺。
