心灵的视野.doc

Where is the skyline in our heart? 心目中的地平线 翻译整理：王潞伟 博士 Hardly had the storm subsided in the heated discussion about a naked money-worship as shown in the saying “I prefer to weep sitting in a BMW ”by a girl in a vulgar TV match-up program when the “global private beauty selection”raised its curtain,which is a wealth flaunting event and in which thousands of single women participated with the very attendance of fengshui master…such stories will be put on again and again.we have but lifed another veil of society amongst the masses’loud questioning on morals of such events. 有一个话题经久不息，是关于一个女孩在粗俗的相亲节目中所说：“我宁愿坐在宝马车里哭”所显现的赤裸裸的拜金主义。这个话题刚结束，另一个“世界小姐选美比赛”又拉开了帷幕，这个节目炫富气息浓厚，由众多的风水大师陪伴成千上万的单身女子参加，这种故事反复上演，在大家的质疑声中我们只是揭开了一层社会道德的面纱而已。 When did we change our attitude towards money worshiping and wealth flaunting from restraining ,criticizing and resisting to being numb,silent,forgiving,and finally to echoing,longing for and publicizing? 我们什么时候对拜金主义和炫富从抵制、批评到麻木，从沉默、宽容转向附和，再到渴望和公开承认的呢？ when did we routinize,rationalize,and whitewash egoism and pleasure seeking in the modern discourse that has been pluralized,secularized and marketized? 我们什么时候在日常惯例中合理的、利己的、享乐的寻找多元化、安全化、市场化的现代式的交谈？ It is ture that “concepts change along with the change of times ”,however ,such change should reflect the progress of civilization and not the degeneration of morality. 概念会随时间而改变，时过境迁这个真理是不可否认的。但是，此种变化应该如实的反映文明的进步，而不是道德的沦丧。 It is ture that “it is a progress to boldly express one’s love of money ”,however ,this shows the tolerance of social environment and does not mean improvement of life quality. “这是一个爱钱的年代”的观念也是对的，但是，这也反映了社会环境的容忍度，但并不意味着生活质量的改善。 It is ture that “it is the nature of human beings to pursue a better life ”,however ,money worship can never be equated with a better life . “追求高质量的生活水平”也是对的，但是拜金主义并不与更好地生活相并列。 It is ture that “the choice of way of living is the freedom of every individual ”,however,such money worship and obvious blatant alienating are recklessly corroding social conscience,dis