作为一种宗教,汽车有一整套自成一体的价值观。就像我们已经非常讨厌但又离不开空调、手机、电视和互联网一样,我们同样被汽车套牢,汽车的悖论就是整个文明的悖论。我家小区有一成功人士,家里拥有一辆据说值五六十万元钱而且很体面的车和一条同样价格不菲也够体面的狗。车位空着的时候,一般就是男主人在外面忙活,如果天气好,很优雅的女主人就会出来溜狗,还时不时会端一本书在花园看着。这个场景从一年前的某个时候开始,直到今天还延续着,很是让人羡慕。我那命苦的老婆经常拿这来教育和督促我:“你看人家……”当我决定也花上一点钱买条狗来陪伴她常常感到寂寞的日子时,她很是不屑:“狗谁买不起啊?重要的是,你必须在拥有一辆像样的车之后,再拥有一条狗。”汽车是工业文明的符号我老婆读书不多,但她却碰巧提及了一个叫福斯特的美国人在上世纪40年代所阐释的文明生活五要素中的关键两个:车和狗。福斯特在他那本并不是特别出名的《文明》一书中认为:汽车是工业文明截止到他那个时代认同率最高的符号,它意味着人驾御自然和延伸自我的成就感。事实上,美国作为新兴工业国家的成功标志,就是1950年代汽车制造业的产量首次超过欧洲(碰巧 As a religion, cars have a set of self-contained values. Like we have been very nasty but can not do without air conditioning, cell phones, television and the Internet, we are also stuck in the car, car paradox is the paradox of civilization. My family district has a successful person, the family owned a supposedly worth fifty or sixty thousand dollars and decent car and a similarly expensive enough decent enough dog. When the parking space is empty, the host is generally busy outside, if the weather is good, very elegant hostess will come out dog walking, but also from time to time will end a book looked in the garden. This scene from some time ago a year ago, until today continues, it is enviable. My beloved wife often uses this to educate and urge me: “You see people ” “When I decided to spend a little money to buy a dog to accompany her often feel lonely days, she is very disdain: ”It’s important that you have another dog after you own a decent car.“ ”The car is a symbol of industrial civilization My wife does not read much, but she happened to mention One of the five key elements of a civilized life illustrated by a Foster-born American in the 1940s: cars and dogs. In his not-so-famous Civilization, Foster argues that a car is the symbol of industrial civilization that had the highest recognition rates of his time, and that it implies a man’s sense of accomplishment over nature and self-extension. In fact, the symbol of the success of the United States as a newly industrialized country is that for the first time, the automobile manufacturing industry in the 1950s overtook Europe (coincidentally