Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

  • -- Joel C. Rosenberg 乔尔·C·罗森伯格

是否存在这样一个临界点,当我们到达临界点时,所有这些经济、文化和道德上的问题都将我们带入一个无法摆脱的死亡漩涡?

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

现代人必须把自己荒谬的螺旋式下降到最低点;只有这样,他才能超越它。显然不可能绕过它,跳过它,或者干脆避开它。

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

人之所以没有体验到真正的文化自我,是因为除非他体验到另一个自我是有效的,否则他就没有什么基础来验证自己的自我。

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

文化人类学作为一门严格意义上的历史科学,正越来越迅速地实现其自身的价值。

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

增长是一个螺旋式的过程,它会自我翻倍、重新评估和重组。