TED演讲:网络暴力的失控(9)

Maybe there's two types of people in the world:

也许这世界有两种人：

those people who favor humans over ideology¹, and those people who favor ideology over humans.

一种人相信人性高于意识形态，一种人相信意识形态高于人性。

I favor humans over ideology, but right now, the ideologues are winning,

我属于前者，但眼下，后者正占据上风，

and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas

这些人正在搭建一个舞台，不停上演一出大戏，

where everybody's either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain²,

戏里的人不是威猛英雄，就是猥琐坏人，

even though we know that's not true about our fellow humans.

即使大家都明白其实人不是这样的。

What's true is that we are clever and stupid; what's true is that we're grey areas.

真实的现实是我们既聪明又愚蠢；真实的现实是我们都处于灰色地带。

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people,

社交媒体的好处是它能为无处发声的人提供一个发言的平台，

but we're now creating a surveillance society, where the smartest way to survive is to go back to being voiceless.

而现在呢，我们搞出了个间谍社会，要想生存就得噤若寒蝉。

Let's not do that. Thank you.

让我们改变这种局面吧。谢谢大家。

1 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

2 villain   

n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因

参考例句：

• He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
• The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。