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从禅悟到硅谷之四：追逐工业光魔 A TASTE FOR INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC 追逐工业光魔 But now, if we were to fix upon this one aspect of the counter culture -- its mystic tendencies and principled funkiness -- we would not be doing justice to the deep ambiguity of the movement. We would be overlooking the allegiance it maintained, for all its vigorous dissent, to a certain irrepressible Yankee ingenuity, a certain world-beating American fascination with making and doing. For along one important line of descent, it is within this same population of rebels and drop-outs that we can find the inventors and entrepreneurs who helped lay the foundations of the California computer industry. The connections between these two seemingly contradictory aspects of the movement are fascinating to draw out and ponder -- especially since both wings of the counter culture came to be more fully unfolded here in the San Francisco Bay Area than any place else. This is where the Zen-Taoist impulse arose and found (for example, in the San Francisco Zen Center) its most studied expression in America; this is where the mendicant-communitarian lifestyle, both urban and rural, found its main public examples; this is where the new ecological sensibility first announced its presence and first organized its political energies. And this is where the inspired young hackers who would revolutionize Silicon Valley gathered in their greatest numbers. 但是现在，如果我们要专注于反文化的这一个方面──也就是它的神秘主义倾向和骨子里的复古主义那么我们对于这场极度含混不清的运动便是不公平的。我们会轻视这场运动中那些积极的异议分子所坚守的那无法压抑的属于美国的创造力、和靠着实干震撼了整个世界的属于美国的魅力。因为沿着这条重要的家谱追溯下去，正是在这一批叛逆者和辍学生中，我们可以发现那些为加利福尼亚的计算机产业奠定了基础的发明家和企业家。这场运动看似矛盾的两个方面之间的关系，是令人惊异并引人深思的尤其是反文化运动的两派最终都在旧金山湾区而不是其他任何一处被完整地展现。禅-道运动正是从这里首先兴起，并使旧金山成为全美禅-道研修水平最高的中心（例如，旧金山的禅宗中心）；也正是在这里，乞讨-社群主义（mendicant-communitarian）的生活方式，在城市和农村中，同时得以向公众展现自己；也正是在这里，全新的生态保护运动第一次宣告自身的存在，并且集合起自己的政治力量。也正是在这里，受到了启示的年轻黑客们彻底改变了他们所聚居的硅谷。 The truth is, if one probes just beneath the surface of the bucolic hippie image, one finds a puzzling infatuation with certain forms of ou