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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

  • -- William Irwin Thompson 威廉·厄文·汤普森

随着文明的出现，变化的速度从几十万年变成了几千年。随着科学作为了解宇宙的一种方式的出现，变化的速度转移到了几个世纪。

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Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

从我们有了交流的那一刻起，文明就开始发展了——尤其是海上的交流，使人们能够从彼此身上获得灵感和想法，并交换基本的原材料。

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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

人类，作为行为系统，是相当简单的。随着时间的推移，我们行为的表面复杂性很大程度上反映了我们所处环境的复杂性。

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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

在当代文明幸福的黑暗背景下，即使是艺术也趋向于交融，失去了自己的身份。

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Nobody is driven by abstractions like seeking truth.

没有人会被像追求真理这样的抽象概念所驱使。

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