Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era
أناند جيريدالرداس: رسالة لكل من ضاع في هذا العصر.
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seems to be each other.
على ما يبدو هو بعضنا البعض.
when you know it's going to storm
حين تعلم أن هناك عاصفةً قادمة
من القرن الماضي؟
that your fears of me,
is right for us both,
to trigger my fears,
that this amazing new world
أن هذا العالم الجديد الرائع
and technologies flowing freely,
والتقنيات بكل حرية،
rotating in and out of the prison.
على الدخول والخروج من السجن.
in Wagner, South Dakota,
في داكوتا الجنوبية،
in their 20s and 30s
أو الثلاثينات من عمرهم
عقداً أو عقدين،
I encountered in Paris,
في الثلاثينات من عمرهم،
that creates wealth --
of London becoming ghost quarters,
وقد أصبحت أحياء تسكنها الأشباح،
turn fishy money into empty apartments
المشبوهة إلى شققٍ فارغة
young couples starting out,
ويغادر الأزواج الجدد،
to nourish your children,
in your work, and now you didn't.
لكنك الآن لا تستطيع.
for people like you to own a home,
مثلك أن يمتلكوا بيتاً،
we could live on Mars,
shorter lives than your parents had.
أقصر من تلك التي عاشها آباؤكم.
but I didn't listen.
when the substance of it,
حينما كان فحواه،
toward shattering continental unions
الاتحادات القارية
of the new for novelty's sake,
rituals, stability --
towards the other polarity,
the right skin or right organ
moving away from you;
to people like you,
that old privileges should not dwindle.
الامتيازات القديمة أن تتضاءل.
in a new century in which
قرن جديد حيث
with the right skin and right organs.
أو الأعضاء المناسبة.
for that in our shared home.
لذلك في بيتنا المشترك.
of coping with the loss of status.
can also be personally gruelling.
قاهراً عى المستوى الشخصي.
on equality and diversity,
and could not if I wished
closely knit, interdependent world,
تكافلاً وتماسكاً،
that won't stop being invented.
your experience of these things.
بخصوص هذه الأشياء.
that your experience of these things
أن تجربتك في هذه الأشياء
a complaining sentence
with erratic hours, volatile pay,
غير المنتظمة والأجر المتغير،
your children off at 24-hour day care
could finish your sentence --
experiencing was flexibility
that we truly share,
التي نتقاسمها حقاً،
this joint inheritance
like "the sharing economy,"
"الاقتصاد المشترك"،
and wanted you to believe
against your economic interests --
economism talking.
as their only interest,
على أنها اهتمامهم الوحيد،
to those who ignore you.
if we continue down this road,
إن استمرينا في هذه الطريق،
by visions of the future
they were done with it.
shallow redemption
about us all being in it together.
عنا جميعاً كوننا مع بعضنا.
made choices to be here.
أننا اخترنا أن نكون هنا.
you now feel for revenge,
impersonal forces.
الكبرى غير المعروفة.
of your and my relations.
we might have to let go of,
versions of reality.
of these or those people.
get past security.
الحاجز الأمني.
to the foundational dream of each other,
بالحلم الأساسي لبعضنا البعض،
to the dream of each other
بحلم ببعضنا البعض
before every neon thing.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anand Giridharadas - WriterAnand Giridharadas writes about people and cultures caught amid the great forces of our time.
Why you should listen
Anand Giridharadas is a writer. He is a New York Times columnist, writing the biweekly "Letter from America." He is the author, most recently, of The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, about a Muslim immigrant’s campaign to spare from Death Row the white supremacist who tried to kill him. In 2011 he published India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking, about returning to the India his parents left.
Giridharadas's datelines include Italy, India, China, Dubai, Norway, Japan, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria, Uruguay and the United States. He is an on-air contributor for NBC News and appears regularly on "Morning Joe." He has given talks on the main stage of TED and at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Aspen Institute, Summit at Sea, the Sydney Opera House, the United Nations, the Asia Society, PopTech and Google. He is a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Giridharadas lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Priya Parker, and their son, Orion.
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