“Little Brother is watching you,” said no novel or movie ever. Almost every fictional dystopia — 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission — involves a vast and oppressive state, not a failed or ineffectual one. Because the most recent threats to civilisation were Hitler and Stalin, we expect the next one to take the same dictatorial form.
“小兄弟在看着你，”从来没有小说或电影这么说过。几乎每个虚构的反乌托邦故事——《1984》、《侍女的故事》(The Handmaid’s Tale)，以及法国作家米歇尔•韦勒贝克(Michel Houellebecq)的《屈服》(Soumission)——都涉及一个巨大而高压的政权，而不是一个失败或软弱无能的当局。因为人类文明之前面临的最近的威胁来自希特勒和斯大林，我们预计下一个威胁也会以独裁者为形式。
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