People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

  • -- Daniel Pauly 鲍利

人们不知道过去,即使我们生活在有文化的社会里,因为他们不相信过去的来源。

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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

过去,我们在争论的基本事实上存在分歧,我们对这些事实有不同的看法。现在我认为我们接受不同的权力来源。而且人们可以建立起自己的信誉——只要没有人跟踪这条路,并在这条路上大声疾呼。

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

由于我们复杂的社会极易受到干扰和事故的影响,它们当然为迅速中断正常活动提供了理想的机会。

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

小说写作、阅读和购书,一直都是一小部分人的活动,即使是在受教育程度最高的社会中也是如此。

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

反抗的权利有着深厚的历史渊源。