2006年考研英语 阅读真题 第4篇: The Art of Unhappiness |
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You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery.
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This wasn't always so.
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The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media,
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The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
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But it's not as if earlier times didn't know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents.
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Many things make people think artists are weird.
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as we went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil.
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But the weirdest may be this: artists'only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
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After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising.
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But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring,
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The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy.
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and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
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2006年考研英语 阅读真题 第4篇: The Art of Unhappiness |
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Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
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And since these messages have an agenda -- to lure us to open our wallets
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Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling, smiling.
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which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms.
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-- they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.
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But what we forget -- what our economy depends on us forgetting -- is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain.
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Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes.
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They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young.
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Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy.
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In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church,
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"Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
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People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery.
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The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment.
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Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori:
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remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it.
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It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
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