The Spirit of the Hive
The Spirit of the Hive
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蜂巢之灵
DOI：
10.1353/aq.1996.0004
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
M. Banta
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作者：
M. Banta
这项出色的研究的一个令人惊叹的成就是，即使在跟踪一些最无聊的人的活动时，它也能始终如一地保持我们的兴趣。约翰·乔丹拒绝满足于廉价的刺激和容易的兴奋，这些刺激和兴奋滋生于掌握和控制的阴谋叙事。的确，乔丹的序言暗示了这种情节的可能性，因为它是从俄罗斯先锋小说家叶夫根尼·扎米亚京（Evgeny Zamyatin）的《我们》（We）的警示性文本中得出的。精英部队把“使生活在其他星球上的未知生物屈服于理性的仁慈枷锁”作为他们的“使命”;如果给宇宙社区带来“数学上完美的幸福”的计划遇到任何阻力，“我们的责任将是迫使他们幸福。“乔丹从他的叙述中剥离了所有的情节剧，他描述了各种社会工程师试图将理性的仁慈枷锁强加给那些在进步时代和新政结束之间的岁月里构成美国民众的未知生物。恶魔化是缺席的人谁领导了精心详细的小传
ONE OF THE STRIKING ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THIS EXCELLENT STUDY IS the way it consistently maintains our interest even as it tracks the activities of some of the most boring people imaginable. John Jordan refuses to settle for the cheap thrills and easy excitements that breed on conspiracy narratives of mastery and control. True, the headnote to Jordan's introduction suggests the possibility of such plots, drawn as it is from the cautionary text of We by the Russian avant-garde novelist Evgeny Zamyatin. Elite troops take as their "mission" the call "to subjugate to the beneficent yoke of reason the unknown beings who live on other planets"; if there is any resistance to the plan to bring "mathematically faultless happiness" to the cosmic community, "our duty will be to force them to be happy."' Jordan strips all melodrama from his account of the attempts by a variety of social engineers to impose the beneficent yoke of reason on the unknown beings who made up America's populace in the years between the Progressive Era and the close of the New Deal. Demonization is absent from the meticulously detailed minibiographies of the men who led the