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Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era
Anand Giridharadas: 給在這世代中迷失者的一封信
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2016 夏: 在民粹主義的反叛、衝突的憤怒和恐懼中，作家Anand Giridharadas 並不發表演講，而是念了一封信。這封信是由那些在這改變的世代中獲勝得利的人寫給那些迷失或感到茫然的人們。信中坦白了對於痛苦的無視，直到痛苦變成了憤怒。譴責了理想卻遙遠的菁英的關著門拯救世界的行為，以及空虛、自利的未來主義--時常比起拯救地球上的人們更擔心重視將人們送到火星。這封信還拒絕了我們一直所攀附著的排外信念，呼籲著我們去「勇敢地投入於實現彼此的夢想中」。
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Anand Giridharadas writes about people and cultures caught amid the great forces of our time. Full bio
Anand Giridharadas writes about people and cultures caught amid the great forces of our time. Full bio
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June 29, 2016.
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二零一六年六月二十九日。
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My dear fellow citizen:
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我親愛的公民同伴們:
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I write to you today,
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我今天寫信給你們，
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to you who have lost in this era.
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給那些在這個時代中迷失的你們。
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At this moment in our common life,
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在我們日常生活的這個瞬間，
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when the world is full of breaking
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世界正充滿著分裂、
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and spite
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怨恨、
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and fear,
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和恐懼。
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I address this letter
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我簡單地
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simply to you,
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對你們發表這封信，
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even though we both know
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雖然我們都知道
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there are many of you behind this "you,"
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在你們之後還有很多「你」，
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and many of me behind this "I."
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而在我身後也有很多個「我」。
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I write to you because at present,
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我寫信給你們是因為現在，
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this quaking world we share scares me.
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這個我們共享的晃動的世界使我害怕。
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I gather it scares you, too.
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我猜它也讓你害怕。
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Some of what we fear, I suspect,
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我們所害怕的一些事物，我猜，
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we fear in common.
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是相同的。
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But much of what we fear
seems to be each other.
seems to be each other.
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但大多使我們害怕的
來自我們彼此。
來自我們彼此。
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You fear the world I want to live in,
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你害怕我理想中的世界，
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and I fear your visions in turn.
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而我也畏懼著你的視界。
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Do you know that feeling you get
when you know it's going to storm
when you know it's going to storm
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你知道當你知道暴風雨即將來襲前
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before it storms?
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會有的那種感覺嗎?
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Do you also feel that now,
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你們現在也感受到那種感覺嗎，
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fellow citizen?
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公民同伴們?
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That malaise and worry
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那種不安和擔心，
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that some who know
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有些人或許知道，
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feel reminds them of the 1930s?
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這種感覺是否讓他們想起1930年代?
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Perhaps you don't,
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也許你並非如此，
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because our fears of each other
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因為我們對彼此的恐懼
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are not in sync.
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並不同步。
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In this round, I sense
that your fears of me,
that your fears of me,
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在這個周圍中，我察覺到了
你們對我的恐懼，
你們對我的恐懼，
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of the world that I have insisted
is right for us both,
is right for us both,
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對我所堅信的
這個適合我們的世界的恐懼，
這個適合我們的世界的恐懼，
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has gathered over a generation.
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已在世代間逐漸聚集。
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It took time for your fears
to trigger my fears,
to trigger my fears,
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你的恐懼要引起我的恐懼是需要時間的，
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not least because at first,
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這很重要因為在一開始，
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I never thought I needed to fear you.
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我從沒想過我需要懼怕你。
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I heard you
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我聽到你，
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but did not listen,
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但並未聽進去，
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all these years when you said
that this amazing new world
that this amazing new world
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在這些年間，
當你說這個精彩的世界
當你說這個精彩的世界
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wasn't amazing for you,
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對你來說並不是那麼美妙，
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for many of you,
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對你們很多人來說，
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across the industrialized world;
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穿越工業化的世界，
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that the open, liquid world I relished,
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這個我所享受著的開放的、流動的世界，
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of people and goods
and technologies flowing freely,
and technologies flowing freely,
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人們、商品以及科技自由地流動互通，
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going where they pleased, globally,
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去到他們想去的世界各地。
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was not, for you, an emancipation.
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對你，並不是一種解放。
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I have walked through your towns
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我走遍了你們的城鎮，
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and, while looking, failed to see.
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當我看的時候，卻看不見。
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I did notice in Stephenville, Texas,
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我發現到在德州的斯蒂芬維爾市中，
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that the town square was dominated
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城鎮廣場被
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by one lawyer's office after another,
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一間又一間的律師事務所佔據，
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because of all the people
rotating in and out of the prison.
rotating in and out of the prison.
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因為人們在監獄進進出出。
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I did notice the barren shops
in Wagner, South Dakota,
in Wagner, South Dakota,
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我看到在南達科他州
瓦格納的荒涼店鋪，
瓦格納的荒涼店鋪，
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and the VFW gathering hall
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以及海外退伍軍人會所
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that stood in mockery
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矗立於
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of a community's dream to endure.
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社區對於夢想所忍受的嘲弄中。
03:55
I did notice
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我發現
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at the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wal-Mart,
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在賓州蘭卡斯特城市中，
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that far too many people
in their 20s and 30s
in their 20s and 30s
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太多二十代、三十代年輕人
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looked a decade or two from death,
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看起來離死亡只剩十年或二十年，
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with patchy, flared-up skin
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有著不勻稱、疾病突發的皮膚
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and thinning, stringy hair
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和稀疏成條的頭髮，
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and browning, ground-down teeth
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發褐、搖搖欲墜的牙齒，
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and a lostness in their eyes.
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以及他們眼神中的茫然。
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I did notice that the young people
I encountered in Paris,
I encountered in Paris,
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我注意到我在巴黎、
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in Florence, in Barcelona,
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在佛羅倫斯、在巴塞隆納遇見的年輕人，
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had degrees but no place to take them,
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擁有著學歷卻無處可去，
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living on internships well into their 30s,
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三十代卻仍是實習生，
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their lives prevented from launching,
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他們的生命被阻擋著無法大放異彩，
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because of an economy
that creates wealth --
that creates wealth --
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因為經濟創造了財富--
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just not jobs.
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卻不創造工作。
04:45
I did notice the news about those parts
of London becoming ghost quarters,
of London becoming ghost quarters,
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我看到了新聞報導那些
在倫敦中變成鬼城的地方，
在倫敦中變成鬼城的地方，
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where the global super-rich
turn fishy money into empty apartments
turn fishy money into empty apartments
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世界超級富豪將
可疑的錢變成一棟棟空著的公寓
可疑的錢變成一棟棟空著的公寓
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and price lifelong residents of a city,
young couples starting out,
young couples starting out,
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然後向城市的永久居民們索價，
年輕情侶們出走，
年輕情侶們出走，
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out of their own home.
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走出他們自己的家園。
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And I heard that the fabric of your life
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我還聽到象徵你們生命的布料
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was tearing.
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正在被撕裂。
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You used to be able to count on work,
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你以前能夠依靠工作，
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and now you couldn't.
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但現在卻無法。
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You used to be able
to nourish your children,
to nourish your children,
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你以前能夠
養育你的小孩，
養育你的小孩，
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and guarantee that they would climb
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並確保他們能夠
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a little bit further in life than you had,
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爬得比你所擁有的人生還要高，
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and now you couldn't.
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但現在卻無法。
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You used to be made to feel dignity
in your work, and now you didn't.
in your work, and now you didn't.
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你以前在工作中找到尊嚴，
但現在卻無法。
但現在卻無法。
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It used to be normal
for people like you to own a home,
for people like you to own a home,
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以前，和你們一樣的人們
擁有房子是再正常不過的事了，
擁有房子是再正常不過的事了，
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and now it wasn't.
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而現在卻並非如此。
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I cannot say
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我不能說
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I didn't know these things,
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我不知道這些事情，
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but I was distracted
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但我在想著別的事情，
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creating a future in which
we could live on Mars,
we could live on Mars,
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想著創造一個人們住在火星上的未來，
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even as you struggled down here on Earth.
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當你們仍在地球上掙扎時。
06:08
I was distracted
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我在想著別的事情，
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innovating immortality,
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想著創造永生，
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even as many of you began to live
shorter lives than your parents had.
shorter lives than your parents had.
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當你們很多人
開始活得比你們的父母還短暫時。
開始活得比你們的父母還短暫時。
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I heard all of these things,
but I didn't listen.
but I didn't listen.
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我聽到這些所有事情，
卻聽而不聞。
卻聽而不聞。
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I looked
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我看了，
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but didn't see.
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卻視而不見。
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I read, didn't understand.
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我讀了，卻不去明白。
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I paid attention
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只有
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only when you began to vote and shout,
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當你們開始投票吶喊時，我才會集中精神。
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and when your voting and shouting,
when the substance of it,
when the substance of it,
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以及當你們的選票和吶喊，
當這些的本質，
當這些的本質，
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began to threaten me.
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開始威脅到我的時候。
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I listened only when you moved
toward shattering continental unions
toward shattering continental unions
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我會真正聽見只有當你們
朝破碎的大陸聯盟前行
朝破碎的大陸聯盟前行
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and electing vulgar demagogues.
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並選出通俗的政客的時候。
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Only then did your pain become of interest
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只有當你們的苦痛成為我的利益
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to me.
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的時候。
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I know that feeling hurt
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我知道，感到疼痛，
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is often prologue to dealing hurt.
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通常是處理傷痛的第一步。
07:11
I wonder now
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我現在納悶著，
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if you would be less eager to deal it
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你們是否不再想要處理傷痛，
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if I had stood with you
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而我是否與你們站在一起，
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when you merely felt it.
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當你們幾乎感受不到。
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I ask myself
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我問我自己，
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why I didn't stand with you then.
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為什麼我不和你們站在一起呢?
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One reason is that I became entranced
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其中一個原因是
我陶醉於
我陶醉於
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by the gurus of change,
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改變的權威中，
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became a worshiper of the religion
of the new for novelty's sake,
of the new for novelty's sake,
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為了創新，
成為嶄新的信仰的敬仰者，
成為嶄新的信仰的敬仰者，
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and of globalization and open borders
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以及全球化和開放邊界
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and kaleidoscopic diversity.
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還有萬花筒般多樣性的崇敬者。
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Once change became my totalizing faith,
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一旦改變成為我的總體信仰，
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I could be blind.
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我會變得盲目。
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I could fail to see change's consequences.
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我會看不清改變的後果。
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I could overlook the importance
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我會忽略
根本、傳統、
儀式、安定--
儀式、安定--
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of roots, traditions,
rituals, stability --
rituals, stability --
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08:04
and belonging.
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和歸屬的重要性。
08:07
And the more fundamentalist I became
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而當我越景仰改變和開放，
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in my worship of change and openness,
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成為一個基本主義者，
08:16
the more I drove you
towards the other polarity,
towards the other polarity,
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我就越將你們導向另一個極端，
08:20
to cling,
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去攀附，
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to freeze,
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去凍結，
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to close,
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去終止，
08:25
to belong.
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去歸屬。
08:28
I now see as I didn't before
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我現在看到了我之前沒看到的，
08:30
that not having
the right skin or right organ
the right skin or right organ
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那就是沒有正確的
皮膚和器官
皮膚和器官
08:34
is not the only varietal of disadvantage.
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並不是劣勢唯一的一種變形。
08:39
There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage
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擁有那些被賦予特權的特點中
08:43
in having those privileged traits
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有更隱約、更不明顯的劣勢
08:46
and yet feeling history to be
moving away from you;
moving away from you;
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並感覺歷史離你而去;
08:51
that while the past was hospitable
to people like you,
to people like you,
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雖然過去對像你這種人非常不友善，
08:54
the future will be more hospitable
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但未來只會
對其他人們更不友善;
08:56
to others;
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08:58
that the world is growing less familiar,
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世界日漸陌生，
09:00
less yours day by day.
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一天一天越來不像你的世界。
09:05
I will not concede for a moment
that old privileges should not dwindle.
that old privileges should not dwindle.
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我一刻也不會承認
舊的特權需要被限縮。
舊的特權需要被限縮。
09:12
They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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它們無法快速地限縮。
09:15
It is for you to learn to live
in a new century in which
in a new century in which
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你們必須學會在這個
09:19
there are no bonuses for showing up
with the right skin and right organs.
with the right skin and right organs.
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並不會因為以正確的皮膚和器官出現
而得到好處的新世代中生存。
而得到好處的新世代中生存。
09:25
If and when your anger turns to hate,
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如果你們的憤怒成為了仇恨
09:27
please know that there is no space
for that in our shared home.
for that in our shared home.
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請了解在我們共享的家園中
並沒有仇恨的空間。
並沒有仇恨的空間。
09:33
But I will admit, fellow citizen,
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但我承認，公民同胞們，
09:38
that I have discounted the burden
of coping with the loss of status.
of coping with the loss of status.
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我錯估了處理地位喪失這件事
所承受的壓力。
所承受的壓力。
09:44
I have forgotten
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我遺忘了，
09:45
that what is socially necessary
can also be personally gruelling.
can also be personally gruelling.
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對社會來說不可或缺的事也會讓
個人極度疲勞。
個人極度疲勞。
09:52
A similar thing happened
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同樣的事，
09:55
with the economy that you and I share.
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發生在你我共享的經濟中。
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Just as I cannot and don't wish
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就如同我無法也不願希望
10:02
to turn back to the clock
on equality and diversity,
on equality and diversity,
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讓時間倒轉，
回到公平和多樣性，
回到公平和多樣性，
10:06
and yet must understand
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然而我必須明白
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the sense of loss they can inspire,
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他們啟示著我的迷失感，
10:13
so, too, I refuse
and could not if I wished
and could not if I wished
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因此，同樣的，我拒絕，
而就算我想也無法
而就算我想也無法
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turn back the clock on an ever more
closely knit, interdependent world,
closely knit, interdependent world,
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將時間倒轉回到
一個更加緊密交織，互相依賴，
一個更加緊密交織，互相依賴，
10:22
and on inventions
that won't stop being invented.
that won't stop being invented.
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創新永不停止的世界。
10:26
And yet I must understand
your experience of these things.
your experience of these things.
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但是我必須了解你們所經歷的這些事。
10:33
You have for years been telling me
that your experience of these things
that your experience of these things
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你們已經在數年間持續告訴我
你們在這些事情中所經歷的
你們在這些事情中所經歷的
10:36
is not as good as my theories forecast.
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並不及我的理論所預期的一樣好。
10:40
Yet before you could finish
a complaining sentence
a complaining sentence
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然而在你們結束抱怨的句子，
10:46
about the difficulty of living
with erratic hours, volatile pay,
with erratic hours, volatile pay,
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埋怨著生活的困難、
不定的工時、不定的收入、
不定的工時、不定的收入、
10:51
vanishing opportunities,
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消失的機會、
10:53
about the pain of dropping
your children off at 24-hour day care
your children off at 24-hour day care
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將小孩安置在24小時托育中心
10:57
to make your 3am shift,
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以便能在凌晨三點輪班的痛苦之前，
11:00
I shot back at you -- before you
could finish your sentence --
could finish your sentence --
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我回嘴了--在你結束你的句子之前--
11:04
my dogma,
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我的信念，
11:05
about how what you are actually
experiencing was flexibility
experiencing was flexibility
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你們所真實經歷的
是彈性
是彈性
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and freedom.
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及自由。
11:14
Language is one of the only things
that we truly share,
that we truly share,
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語言是我們所真正共享的
唯一事物之一，
唯一事物之一，
11:20
and I sometimes used
this joint inheritance
this joint inheritance
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而我有時運用
這個共同財產
這個共同財產
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to obfuscate
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來模糊視聽，
11:25
and deflect
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和扭曲事實，
11:27
and justify myself;
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以及為我自己辯護;
11:29
to re-brand what was good for me
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將對我的事物重新塑造成
11:31
as something appearing good for us both,
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看似對我們都有利的事，
11:35
when I threw around terms
like "the sharing economy,"
like "the sharing economy,"
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當我拋出像
「共享經濟」、
「共享經濟」、
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and "disruption"
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和「分裂」、
11:41
and "global resourcing."
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以及「全球資源化」這些名詞時。
11:45
I see now that what I was really doing,
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現在我知道我到底做了什麼，
11:48
at times,
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好幾次，
11:49
was buying your pain on the cheap,
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廉價收購你們的痛苦，
11:53
sprucing it up
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重新包裝的漂漂亮亮
11:55
and trying to sell it back to you
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再試著將它們作為自由
11:58
as freedom.
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賣回給你們。
12:01
I have wanted to believe
and wanted you to believe
and wanted you to believe
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我一直以來都想相信，
也想要你們相信
也想要你們相信
12:07
that the system that has been good to me,
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這個對我有利的制度，
12:09
that has made my life ever more seamless,
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讓我的生活更趨平緩的制度，
12:13
is also the best system for you.
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也是對你們最有利的制度。
12:17
I have condescended to you
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一直以來我都以屈尊的態度對待你們
12:19
with the idea that you are voting
against your economic interests --
against your economic interests --
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以你們正違背你們經濟利益在投票--
12:24
voting against your interests,
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違背你們自身利益在投票的想法，
12:27
as if I know your interests.
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好像我了解你們的利益一樣。
12:32
That is just my dogmatic
economism talking.
economism talking.
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這只是我武斷的經濟主義的談話罷了。
12:37
I have a weakness
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我有一個弱點，
12:39
for treating people's economic interests
as their only interest,
as their only interest,
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那就是把人們的經濟利益
視為他們的唯一利益，
視為他們的唯一利益，
12:44
ignoring things like belonging and pride
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忽略了歸屬感和尊嚴
12:48
and the desire to send a message
to those who ignore you.
to those who ignore you.
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以及你們想傳達訊息給那些忽視你們
的人的慾望。
的人的慾望。
12:52
So here we are,
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所以我們現在在這裡，
12:56
in a scary but not inexplicable moment
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處在一個可怕但並非難以理解的時刻，
13:01
of demagoguery, fracture,
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在煽動、分裂、
13:04
xenophobia, resentment and fear.
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排外主義、憤慨、以及恐懼中。
13:09
And I worry for us both
if we continue down this road,
if we continue down this road,
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而我擔心著我們雙方，
當我們持續走在這條路上
當我們持續走在這條路上
13:14
me not listening,
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我聽而不聞，
13:16
you feeling unheard,
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你感受到不被聆聽，
13:18
you shouting to get me to listen.
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你大吼著想讓我聽見。
13:22
I worry when each of us is seduced
by visions of the future
by visions of the future
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我擔心著我們其中一方
被沒有另外一方
被沒有另外一方
13:26
that have no place for the other.
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的未來景象所誘惑。
13:29
If this goes on,
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如果這發生了，
13:33
if this goes on,
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如果這發生了，
13:36
there may be blood.
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那就可能會見血。
13:39
There are already hints of this blood
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這血早已有跡像暗示了
13:42
in newspapers every day.
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在每日的報紙中。
13:44
There may be roundups, raids,
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可能會有圍捕、襲擊、
13:47
deportations, camps, secessions.
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驅除出境、拘留營、分離。
13:51
And no, I do not think that I exaggerate.
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還有不，我不覺得我誇大了。
13:56
There may be even talk of war
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甚至可能會有關於發動戰爭的言論
13:58
in places that were certain
they were done with it.
they were done with it.
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在那些已經受夠戰爭的地區。
14:03
There is always the hope of redemption.
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人們一直對贖罪抱著希望，
14:07
But it will not be a cheap,
shallow redemption
shallow redemption
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但這並不會是一個
14:11
that comes through blather
about us all being in it together.
about us all being in it together.
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在呼籲大家團結的胡言中產生的
廉價、膚淺的清償過程。
廉價、膚淺的清償過程。
14:15
This will take more.
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這個清償需要更多。
14:18
It will take accepting that we both
made choices to be here.
made choices to be here.
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他會需要我們彼此都做出
在這裡一起的選擇。
在這裡一起的選擇。
14:25
We create our "others."
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我們創造我們的「其他人」。
14:29
As parents, as neighbors, as citizens,
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作為父母、作為鄰居、作為公民，
14:34
we witness and sometimes ignore each other
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我們看見了卻有時忽略
14:38
into being.
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他人的存在。
14:41
You were not born vengeful.
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你並不是生來復仇的。
14:45
I have some role
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我有一些角色作用
14:47
in whatever thirst
you now feel for revenge,
you now feel for revenge,
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在那些使你們現在想復仇的事情中，
14:51
and that thirst now tempts me
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而你們那想復仇的慾望現在引誘著我
14:53
to plot ever more elaborate escapes
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去塑造更加精美的逃避出口
14:56
from our common life,
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從日常生活，
14:58
from the schools and neighborhoods
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從學校和鄰居社區
15:00
and airports and amusement parks
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以及機場和遊樂園
15:01
that we used to share.
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這些我們過去共享的事物中逃跑。
15:05
We face, then,
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我們面臨了
15:08
a problem not of these large,
impersonal forces.
impersonal forces.
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一個問題並不產生於這些巨大、非個人的力量中
15:14
We face a problem
of your and my relations.
of your and my relations.
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我們面臨你和我之間的關係問題。
15:19
We chose ways of relating to each other
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我們選擇了彼此連結的方式
15:24
that got us here.
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讓我們走到了這裡。
15:25
We can choose ways of relating
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我們也可以選擇
15:28
that get us out.
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讓我們走出去的連結方式。
15:31
But there are things
we might have to let go of,
we might have to let go of,
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但我們必須先捨棄一些東西，
15:35
fellow citizen,
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公民朋友們，
15:37
starting with our own cherished
versions of reality.
versions of reality.
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就從我們各自對美好未來的說法開始。
15:45
Imagine if you let go of fantasies
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想像你捨棄了
15:48
of a society purged
of these or those people.
of these or those people.
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關於社會淘汰這些那些人的幻想。
15:53
Imagine if I let go of my habit
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想像我捨棄了
15:57
of saving the world behind your back,
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在你們背後拯救世界的習慣，
16:01
of deliberating on the future
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商議著你們未來的
16:03
of your work,
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工作、
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your food,
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食物、
16:06
your schools,
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教育，
16:08
in places where you couldn't
get past security.
get past security.
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在你們無法得到
如同過去的安全感的地方的這個習慣。
如同過去的安全感的地方的這個習慣。
16:12
We can do this only if we first accept
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我們要能做到只有當我們先接受
16:17
that we have neglected each other.
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我們一直忽略彼此這件事。
16:21
If there is hope to summon
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如果在這不詳的時刻，
16:25
in this ominous hour,
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能有一個希望能夠聚集人們，
16:28
it is this.
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那就是這個。
16:30
We have, for too long,
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我們長久以來，
16:33
chased various shimmering dreams
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追尋著各種閃爍的夢想，
16:37
at the cost of attention
to the foundational dream of each other,
to the foundational dream of each other,
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以對於彼此最根本的夢想的
注意力為代價，
注意力為代價，
16:45
the dream of tending to each other,
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一個在乎照料著彼此，
16:47
of unleashing each other's wonders,
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解開彼此被束縛的奇蹟，
16:50
of moving through history together.
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一起在歷史中前行的夢想。
16:54
We could dare to commit
to the dream of each other
to the dream of each other
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我們可以勇敢投入於彼此的夢想中，
16:59
as the thing that matters
before every neon thing.
before every neon thing.
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如同這些夢想
比起其他如霓虹燈般的事物更為重要。
比起其他如霓虹燈般的事物更為重要。
17:04
Let us dare.
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讓我們放膽去做。
17:06
Sincerely yours,
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誠摯地，
17:08
a fellow citizen.
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一位公民同伴。
17:09
(Applause)
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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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