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To be a then person means to cling to the past for its own sake, to apply lessons that are not relevant today, to engage in a mixture of nostalgia, envy, rage, and fear toward " modern youth", and to imagine that 21st century problems can be solved by 16th century moral principles or 18th century politics. These are false alternatives, for they are not exclusive alternatives. There is a better way than either, and that is to be an always person, transcending both the frantic cult of the new and the feeble cult of the old. Which means selecting from both what is valuable, and discarding what is useless or harmful? |
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zuò wéi yī míng shǒu jiù zhě yì wèi zhe wèi le zì shēn de lì yì ér shǒu jiù, yùn yòng yǔ xiàn zài wú guān de lǐ lùn, duì yú mó dēng qīng nián huái yǒu yī zhǒng huái jiù, jí dù, fèn nù hé hài pà de fù zá xīn qíng, bìng xiǎng xiàng zhe yòng 16 shì jì de dào dé guān hé 18 shì jì de zhèng zhì guān lái jiě jué 21 shì jì de wèn tí. zhèi xiē shì cuò wù de xuǎn zé, yīn wèi bù jǐn zhǐ yǒu zhè liǎng zhǒng xuǎn zé, yǒu yí gè bǐ tā men qí zhōng rèn hé yí gè dōu yāo hǎo de xuǎn zé, nà jiù shì chéng wéi yí gè shǐ zhōng rú yī de rén, jì chāo yuè le duì yú xīn shì wù de kuáng rè chóng bài, yě chāo yuè le duì yú jiù shì wù de wú lì chóng bài. zhè yì wèi zhe cóng zhòng xuǎn qǔ yǒu jià zhí de dōng xī, pāo qì méi yòng de hé yǒu hài de dōng xī. |