在庄严的诉讼庭大厅内,大家都各自留意着自己的时间。然后一个胖妇笨重地走了进来。左袋右包,金链粉鞋,全套在她臃肿的身材上,格外俗气,大概没人的眼睛愿意注视多一秒。
而偏偏我却注意地如此仔细,因为她正是我和立挺等待的人 - 我们的前任房东。她的出现确实让我有点意外,我还以为害怕见光死的她会一如往常地派遣无用的丈夫来挡箭。
没想到她今天吃了豹子胆,拿着那几张假单据誓言和我们玩到底不要紧,当协调官司请她出示身份证时,她居然一脸不屑地把自己的证件扔在桌上!当场被警告。看来她一点也不胆小,竟然可以侮辱自己抓破脸皮然后无视庄严。小市民那种外表上狂傲,但骨子里自卑的矛盾顿显无疑。
有时人性的某些卑劣让我很纳闷,尤其当这些举止与他们的财富完全不配。是财富扭曲了他们的人性嘛?自古以来,人们都清楚认识到金钱的魔力,从西谚"金钱是万恶之源"到俗语"有钱能使鬼推磨",我们都无时无刻被提醒。
于是贪婪的人敛财万贯,而理智的人害怕聚财。可是事实真是这样嘛?富有的人一定不义嘛?富有的人一定骄奢嘛?看一看刚刚去世的新加坡首富,再看看乐善好施的南洋先贤如陈嘉庚等,美国富豪如比尔盖兹等,都在描绘截然不同的风景。即使备受争议的金融巨鳄索罗斯,也设立不少开放社会基金;更别说那些成功的中小型企业创业家,当中不少都处事低调,极少炫耀财富。如我念过的书(关于多数美国富豪)所说,大部分的富豪并没有如媒体所渲染般凡事讲排场讲气派,而是该用则用该省则省。
稍微偏颇地说,大多数的普通人和大多数的富豪的生活都是平实的,反而大多数夹在中间的,容易因为有少少钱就开始不知天高地厚,一朝得志语无伦次。好比最可恶的,往往不是残暴的老虎,而是为虎作伥的狐狸;最无耻的,往往不是富可敌国的商贾,而是碰上好运的暴发户。
到头来,其实钱哪里有什么魔力?一切都是人的恐惧和贪婪所致。钱,是一面最清晰的镜子,反映着人性;也是一关最恐怖的考验,测试着人性。驭剑者,人也,功夫不到家就会伤到自己;驭钱者,亦人也,人性不通透就会毁掉自己。
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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:
"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.
"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.
"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.
"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.
"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.
"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.
"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.
While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
separate them into author-specific and content-specific blogs. Stay tuned.
Enjoy your reading!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
钱与人性
Posted by clim at 10:45 AM
Labels: About Society | 世事人情
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