The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

左派开始把常识——社区的传统智慧和风俗习惯——视为进步和启蒙的障碍。

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The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

艺术界通常由自由主义者主导,因为如果你主要关注绘画或雕塑,你就没有时间去研究世界是如何运作的。如果你不懂经济、战略、历史和政治,那么你自然会成为一个自由主义者。

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

我的意思是,在南非的例子中,很多人都是行刑队的成员,他们都是白人社区中受人尊敬的成员,他们每个星期天都去教堂做礼拜。

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

所有这些都是可以的,就像当时证明的那样,我当然不会反驳它作为一种必要的感觉。

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

不一定要讲得通,只要听起来像就行了。