林语堂论科技文明之后遗症

林语堂对科技文明给人类带来的后遗症有着深刻的思索和认识。林语堂认为，科技文明在造福人类的同时，也给当时及后世造成了消极、负面的影响：机械化、物质主义、强权政治及悲观主义，进而使人与物质、人与自我、人与自然的关系严重扭曲和全面颠倒，最终陷人于尴尬痛苦、难以自拔的异化魔沼。

Lin Yutang's Argument about the Aftereffects of Scientific and Technological Civilization

The author of this paper expounds Lin Yutang's thought and realization of the aftereffects resulted from scientific and technological civilization. Lin considered that while scientific and technological civilization had greatly benefited the human, it had also left some negative effects: mechanization, materialism, power politics and pessimism so that it seriously distorted and thoroughly confounded the relationship between the human and matter, the human and himself, the human and nature. Consequently it dropped the human into an embarrassed, suffering, monstrous, alienated swamp which he was unable to escape from by himself.