过分热心于成功：马拉松being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences: remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon renner, dropped dead seconds after saying”rejoice, we conquer”
Too many school adopt the “win at all costs” moral standard and measure their success by sporting acheviements.
战争的原因：
Causes of War, by Stephen van evera
德国的扩张来自于它对安全的担忧以及它相信能裹在一场征服战争中实现速胜。不安全感也同样激励着奥地利的扩张主义：反应了其领导者的悲观思维，即不是变强就会被征服。
一切都源于：征服是容易的。
全球冲突
Global conflict
John w.burton
联合国的缺陷：1 不介入国内冲突，许多发端于国内的冲突外溢到了国际社会。而使得国际社会无法解决冲突的根源的手段，因而无法处理冲突。如南非问题
2 维持和平的手段。司法解决，仲裁，调停和谈判。而实际上争端各方不愿诉诸这些解决方式，理论和经验告诉我们，争端的各方的代表都不愿意放弃自己手中的决策权，而把它交给法庭或仲裁者。
经验
A new broom sweeps clean but it takes the old one to know where the dirt lies.
作家直接描写真实生活
Ms. Lessing who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote candidly about the inner lives of women and rejected the notion that they should limit their lives to marriage and children. Because she frankly described anger and aggression in women, she was attacked as “unfeminine.”
密西西比的一位黑人学生
Maybe that is why what impressed me most on my brief college swing was actually a statue—the life-size statue of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Meredith was the first African-American to be admitted to Ole Miss in 1962. The Meredith bronze is pose as if he is striding toward a tall limestone archway, re-enacting his fateful step onto the then-segregated campus—defying a violent, angry mob and protected by the National Guard.
虚拟政治
Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy didn’t change the world by asking people to join their Facebook crusades or to download their platforms. Activism can only be uploaded, the old-fashioned way—by young voters speaking truth to power , face to face, in big numbers, on campuses or the Washington Mall. Virtual politics is just that—virtual.
快节奏的生活
Jeremy Rifkin said in “Time Wars”: we have quickened the pace of life only to become less patient. We have become more organized but less spontaneous, less joyful. We are better prepared to act on the future but less able to enjoy the present and reflect on the past.”
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life.”
学校教育
Over the past century and a half, our top universities have embraced a research-driven ideal that has squeezed the question of life’s meaning from the college curriculum, limiting the range of questions teachers feel they have the right and authority to teach. And in the process it has badly weakened the humanities, the disciplines with the oldest and deepest connection to this question, leaving them directionless and vulnerable to being hijacked for political ends.
历史
A civilization continues through the humane examination of its history.
Through the retrospect of period after world war two, from the histories of Europe to all over the world, Clive James “Cultural Amnesia” |
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