To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

  • -- George H. Mead 乔治·H·米德

要对公共利益感兴趣,我们就必须不感兴趣,也就是说,不感兴趣的是与我们个人利益息息相关的东西。

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These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

如今,我们似乎比以往任何时候都更离不开老板。我们甚至把自己和工作联系在一起:‘你是做什么的?这是我们在派对上互相问的第一个问题,似乎一个职位头衔可以反映出我们性格的一个基本事实。

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

我们的圣洁是结果,不是原因;只要我们把自己的眼睛盯着自己的白色作为目标,事情就会崩溃。

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

如果你做得很好,你就是目标,没有人对你感兴趣,除了你能为他们做些什么。

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

但对于小漫画和个人表达,仍然有一个途径。

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

我必须尽我所能地与我自己生活在一起。

I'm not that interested in people.

我对人没那么感兴趣。