今天和同事说起一个人。他很有感触地说,“看样以后不能简单地听信别人的评论,接触起来觉得这个人完全不一样。”是啊,很多人、很多事要亲自接触才能做出正确的判断。再进一步,我们说眼见为实,但眼见也未必是事实的真相。正如:
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see inside the box, how the mechanisms work. What I call the generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. You are very likely to be fooled by their intentions.