《盗梦空间》对GRE写作的可借鉴之处

爱思英语编者按：Inception是我近3年看的最给力的电影，构思之精巧令人拍案。我凭着职业本能想到了GRE写作当中最困扰中国考生的一个部分那就是Issue（立论文）和Inception之间的关系。现在和大家分享和切磋一下：

GRE issue 评分标准无非一个字概括complexity.

TOEFL作文：学生到底受老师影响多还是受同学影响多？
首先，一般托福作文要有一边倒的倾向立场，然后稍微做让步，这样能把重点凸显出来。第二，论证过程极为简单粗暴：In my opinion, teachers have more influence on students, because it is teachers who have the knowledge, which plays an important part in personal development of students. For example, Socrates uses questioning and his dialectic way of thinking to inspire his students to think independently. It is hard to imagine the achievement of Plato would be like if Socrates were a mere snob who braggers about the abundant knowledge he possesses rather than enlighten Plato’s critical thinking aptitude. On the other hand, the classmates of the same age cannot offer better understanding of the world to one and another, and therefore, it is impossible to replace teachers’ function in the pass-on of knowledge.

以上文字，本人窃以为，托福作文拿一个满分略少不是什么大问题。但是仔细一看，论证思路极其简单，老师知道知识，知识对于个人发展很重要, 同学之间知识储备差不多，所以，同学影响和老师影响相比，老师更牛逼。为了证明这个简单粗暴的理论，作者还给出了漂亮的论据，搬出了古希腊先贤苏格拉底和柏拉图作为佐证。文字迤逦，字字珠玑。给一般的托福写作老师看，还真挑不出什么毛病。

Inception不一样！给大家展现一下，什么叫做GRE的complexity。

同样的题目，我们用GRE的写法来看。To begin with, students, if willing to accept the positive influence from their teachers, will benefit a lot from the teaching. Judging from the unanimously agreed professional requirement of a teacher, not only academically must he or she excel but also virtuously so that the treasure of human civilization can last and prosper. Yet, if this major premise is undermined--that is--some teachers are not academically or virtuously excellent, students should recognize the teacher’s contamination of knowledge and morality and spare no effort to defend the intellectual territory of rationality and integrity. One of the most famous disparity of philosophy is the confrontation between Plato, the teacher, and Aristotle, the student, marked by the saying, “I love not Plato less but Truth more.” Aristotle challenged Plato’s idealistic theory of the essence of the Universe by stating that individual and earthly existence are prior to the concept in mind. Let us leave the right-or-wrong judgement between Plato and Aristotle to the snobbish philosophers, and focus on Aristotle’s inheritance of critical thinking and his steadfastness of his own realm of knowledge.

有没有发现Inception最大的特点是解构现实，重建虚无，模糊真理和虚无的边界。真实不一定存在，虚无并不是不能感知。到底什么是对的，其实没有答案，答案是什么？是那个陀螺仪，如果它倒了，请你按照理性常态的角度去看待发生的一切，如果它一直旋转，剩下的只有无尽的种种可能。

GRE和诺兰要的是一样的，没有真理永远存在于相对之中，关键是对于场域的划定。所以任何一个GRE的argumentation要保证去验证概念，和讨论概念与概念之间的种种可能存在的关系。比如，我写的段落，首先用if开始。if本身就是一个上下浮动的跷跷板。如果老师优秀，学生乐于接受这样的教诲，受到的影响必然是积极的。

你注意，我引入了三个概念，老师，学生，影响。然后我首先对于老师这个概念开始解构。在解构这个概念的同时，学生作为连带概念（虽然在这个概念群里是被动的）开始被唤起主观性，学生需要辨识和反抗。而反抗作为新的概念又会被检视，反抗的前提是，对于某些知识的继承。

有没有感觉像inception多层梦的重叠，第一层，大家先去绑架了Fischer，然后再入一层梦，引入新概念，让Fischer知道他在梦中，开始第二步的解构，这次解构是去解构Fischer的梦里的他叔叔的概念。哇，刺激的不得了，越解构发现对于问题的探讨越复杂，但是往往也就越深刻。GRE虽然是对statement同意反对的考察，但是随着我们对于概念的解构分析，同意反对也变得是在场域中才能成立的命题。更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

一言蔽之，GRE考的是思想。思想是概念和逻辑的关系。概念应该解构，逻辑应该研究关系，这样，思维就不在是二维平面的对错，也不是三维平面的对错对，而是n维平面，各成一体的自我存在。就像梦一样，总是有道理，其实换了更高的维度看，反而不清不楚了。