asianboyztube:慧眼识世界

在几代之前，远早于黑莓和星巴克的时代，曾经我们只能和活着的人进行交流。

Things now are not so simple.

现在的事情可没有这么简单了。

First, writing was invented; then television, and now the web.

先是文字被发明了，然后是电视，现在我们有了网络。

The whole environment has changed, but our brains have not. We are still made for jungles and savannahs but we interact more with iPhones and computer screens than anything else. Surely, this has had an impact.

环境已经发生了翻天覆地的变化，但是我们的大脑却没有。我们依然能够适应丛林和草原，但是我们接触的跟多的确是iPhones和电脑屏幕。当然，因为后者更有冲击力。

A long time ago, the only things we interacted with that we couldn’t see were ghosts and gods. Now, we interact with more invisible people than we ever have. What happens as a result of this is indescribably complex and will likely take generations to truly understand. Marshall McLuhan figured a bit of it out, but media keeps changing, so it’ll take much more than that.

曾经，我们能够交流的却素未谋面的只有鬼魂和上帝。现在我们接触到前所未有的多的素未谋面的人。这带给我们一个难以描述的后果，或许将要花费几代人才能理解，马歇尔·麦克卢汉（马歇尔·麦克卢汉被誉为信息社会、电子世界的“圣人”、“先驱”和“先知”）有些发现，但是媒介一直在发展，这些发现似乎只是冰山一角。

But there’s something else. This is the first generation when most of us have interacted so much with our own media. We used to think of Dan Rather as exemplifying trust. We believed in his story, had faith in his myth. But now it’s ourselves we’re seeing on a screen. What happens then?

在我们刚刚接触电子信息社会的时候，我们曾相信丹·拉瑟，我们相信他的故事，以及他虚构出来的故事。但是现在我们在屏幕上看到的只有我们自己。那会怎样？

I know that when I interact with a blogger or a celebrity of any kind, I am interacting with a blurry, half-constructed version of a person, with only what I’ve read or seen to base the interactions on. I engage with the construct instead of the person, and only later discover who the real person is. I know people do this with me too– I can see it by the emails I receive.

我知道当我看一个博客或者娱乐头条时，我是在接触一个模糊的半虚构的人物，我们的接触仅限于我所读到或看到的。在发现这个真正的人之前，我所接触的只是这样一直架构，而不是一个人。我知道人们也是这样和我交流的-从我收到的邮件中就可以看出来。

My question is this: are we starting to believe our own myths? Is producing, and watching our own media leading us to believe the images we create? I don’t know the answer, but I do have a feeling about it.

我的问题是：我们是不是开始相信自己幻想？是不是生产和观察我们的媒体引导我们去相信我们所创造的图像？我也不知道答案，但是我觉得就是。

Comments on blogs lead us to interact with people who believe in our myth.

博客里的评论引导着我们去和与自己有着相同思想的人。

We get calls from media talking to us as though we are experts instead of people.

接到媒体的采访总是专家，而不是大众。

This was rare before. Now it happens to more of us than ever.

这在之前是很少见到的，现在却越来越普遍。

What happens now? I don’t know, but I believe that what we need more than ever is to see through our own bullshit, as well as everyone else’s.

到底发生了什么？我不知道，但是我相信我们所需要的是看穿自己和别人的谎言。

School will not teach us this. Our government will not tell us either. It is up to us.

学校不会教我们怎么做，政府也不会。我们只能靠自己。

We need to build a resource that will show us what our own lies really are.

我们需要建立一个资源站，像我们展示我们幻想背后的事实.