巨變中的書寫
巨變中的書寫

駐墨爾本的自由運動觀察人.

在我們當中的誰是盲目的那一個?

Cafe lock out 知名主持人 Michael Gray Griffith . 用劇作家的深情和人性觀點記錄這ㄧ場墨爾本從未發生過的佔領Spring 街的運動。 以下是他的中譯短文。

邁克爾-格雷-格里菲斯

我們站在這里,站在街道的這一邊,和那些正在成為兄弟姐妹的陌生人在一起,我們透過警察的防線,看著對街那些坐在咖啡館的桌子旁喝著拿鐵的澳洲人,因為他們明確地表示要把我們拋在後面。

昨天,他們的領導人說,他已經改變了我們的文化,兩天後在這裡,他們開始慶祝這個新文化的黎明。

他們那一邊擁有所有的槍,所有的錢和所有的工作權利,並且很快會有旅行的權利。他們有權利在餐館和酒館進行社交活動,當他們為孩子洗禮時,當他們慶祝婚姻或埋葬他們的親人時,他們的所有家人和朋友都會在場。

而我們呢?我們所分享的只有少數的東西,譬如:我們彼此。,我們超乎尋常的親密;越來越深的悲痛混合著憤怒和驚訝,因為我們可以看到我們正在失去什麽;這種堅決保有我們自由的頑固決心。

但這是一種不同於我們出生時被賦予的自由。這是一種更純粹的自由,一種當我們擁有時認為理所當然的自由,一種我們已經失去所謂選擇的自由。

但這種自由不再是免費的,它的代價是我們的工作,我們的家人和朋友,那些現在被嚇得不敢與我們交往的親人。它甚至可能使我們失去夢想。然而我們在這里,分享它,展示它,甚至慶祝它,而我們這個小群人的存在對這個新文化來說是如此可怕,以至於街上到處是警察,在拐角處,更多的警察在等待,其中一些人騎著馬,仿佛我們是一種病毒,可以掙脫出來,感染整個城市。

媒體也與政府合作,把我們描繪成右翼的國內恐怖分子。他們甚至組織自己的遊行來反對我們,就像匆忙接種疫苗一樣。他們稱這是一次反種族主義、反法西斯的反疫苗遊行。

對我們來說,這太荒謬了,這聽起來像是個笑話。但事實並非如此。

他們之所以這麼做為了嚇唬我們讓我們服從,為了根除我們,他們就是不斷地公開指控我們是問題的所在

。通過這樣做,他們的領導人安心地在我們社會大眾更加沈默的情況下,正在成功地將我們重新歸類為人們記憶中的第一個人類群體,不僅被這些人喝著他們的拿鐵的人完全歧視,而且公開地仇恨。

而我們可以看到這一點。對我們來說,它是非常清楚的。對我們來說,這種不段上升國家授權的仇恨,就在"為了你的健康 "這句話的掩蓋之下,像癌症般正在摧毀我們偉大和美麗的一切。

這就是為什麽我們在警戒線對面看著那些無視我們的人。

這難道不令你擔心嗎?我們思考。

你看不出來嗎?

或者在我們兩個人中,我們才是盲目的那一個嗎?

Which one of us is blind?

Michael Gray Griffith

We are standing here, on this side of the street, with strangers who are turning out to be brothers and sisters, and we are looking through the thin line of police, at the Australians who are sitting at the café’s tables and drinking their lattes, as they make it clear that they are leaving us behind.

Yesterday their leader stated that he had changed our culture and here they were, two days in, celebrating its dawn.

And their side of the tracks have all the guns, and all the money and all the rights to work and soon to travel. They have the right to socialise in restaurants and pubs, and to have all their family and friends there when they baptise their children and when they celebrate their marriages or bury their loved ones. 

Whereas us? All we share are a few things like; each other, and remarkably we are very close; a deepening grief mixed with anger and astonishment for what we can see we are all losing; and this stubborn determination to hold on to our freedom.

But this is a different freedom than what we were given at birth. It’s a purer freedom, the one all the freedoms we took for granted, the ones we have lost, emerged from. The Freedom of Choice.

But this freedom is no longer free, its price is our jobs, our families and friends, loved ones who are now too frightened to associate with us. It might even cost us our dreams. And yet here we are, sharing it, displaying it, even celebrating it, and the presence of our little cluster is so frightening to this emerging culture, that the street is full of police, and around the corners, more police are waiting, some of them on horses, as though we were a virus that could break free and infect the city. 

The media too, will work with the authorities to portray us as right winged domestic terrorists. They are even organising their own march against us, like a rushed vaccine. They are calling it  an anti-racist anti-fascist antivax march. 

To us that is so ridiculous it has to be a joke. But it isn’t. 

What they are doing in order to frighten us into complying, in order to eradicate us, is to continue to publicly identify us as the problem. And by doing so, their leader, under the safety of our community’s greater silence, is successfully reclassifying us as the first demographic in living memory, that these people, drinking their lattes, will not only be allowed to fully discriminate against, but to openly hate. 

And we can see this. To us it’s crystal clear. To us, this rising, state sanctioned hate, thinly covered in the words, for your health, is the cancer that is on track to destroy everything that was great and beautiful about us. 

And this is why we are looking across the tracks at those who are ignoring us.

Doesn’t this worry you? We are thinking.  

Can’t you see it? 

Or out of the two of us, are we the ones who are blind?






 

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