A theory of everything | Emily Levine

Prevodilac: Miloš Milosavljević Lektor: Mile Živković

I am going to talk about myself,

Govoriću o sebi,

which I rarely do, because I --

što retko radim

well for one thing, I prefer to talk about things I know nothing about.

jer, kao prvo, volim da govorim o stvarima o kojima ne znam ništa.

And secondly, I'm a recovering narcissist.

A drugo, ja sam narcis na oporavku.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I didn't know I was a narcissist actually.

U stvari, nisam znala da sam narcis.

I thought narcissism meant you loved yourself.

Mislila sam da narcizam znači da volite sebe.

And then someone told me there is a flip side to it.

A onda mi je neko rekao da postoji i drugi aspekt toga.

So it's actually drearier than self-love;

On je u stvari depresivniji od ljubavi prema sebi;

it's unrequited self-love.

to je neuzvraćena ljubav prema sebi.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I don't feel I can afford a relapse.

Osećam da ne smem sebi da dozvolim recidiv.

But I want to, though, explain

Ali želim da objasnim

how I came to design my own particular brand of comedy

kako sam napravila svoj lični brend komedije

because I've been through so many different forms of it.

jer sam prošla kroz mnoge njene različite forme.

I started with improvisation,

Počela sam sa improvizacijom

in a particular form of improvisation called theater games,

u posebnoj formi improvizacije, zvanoj pozorišne igre,

which had one rule,

koje imaju jedno pravilo

which I always thought was a great rule for an ethic for a society.

za koje sam oduvek mislila da je sjajno pravilo za moral društva.

And the rule was, you couldn't deny the other person's reality,

Pravilo je bilo da ne možete osporiti realnost druge osobe

you could only build on it.

već samo nadgrađivati je.

And of course we live in a society that's all about

Naravno, živimo u društvu koje stalno

contradicting other peoples' reality.

protivreči realnostima drugih ljudi.

It's all about contradiction,

Stalno protivreči,

which I think is why I'm so sensitive to contradiction in general.

što mislim da je razlog zbog čega sam tako osetljiva na protivrečnost u globalu.

I see it everywhere.

Vidim je svuda.

Like polls. You know, it's always curious to me

Kao ankete. Uvek mi je bilo zanimljivo

that in public opinion polls

da u anketama javnog mnjenja

the percentage of Americans who don't know the answer to any given question

procenat Amerikanaca koji ne zna odgovor ni na jedno pitanje

is always two percent.

je uvek dva procenta.

75 percent of Americans

75 procenata Amerikanaca

think Alaska is part of Canada.

misli da je Aljaska deo Kanade.

But only two percent don't know the effect

Ali da samo dva procenta ne zna koji će efekat

that the debacle in Argentina will have on the IMF's monetary policy --

imati krah u Argentini na monetarnu politiku MMF-a -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

seems a contradiction.

izgleda kao protivrečnost.

Or this ad that I read in the New York Times:

Ili ovaj oglas koji sam pročitala u Njujork Tajmsu:

"Wearing a fine watch speaks loudly of your rank in society.

"To što nosite dobar sat govori puno o vašem položaju u društvu.

Buying it from us screams good taste."

To što ga kupujete od nas govori još više o dobrom ukusu."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Or this that I found in a magazine called California Lawyer,

Ili ovo što sam našla u časopisu "Kalifornijski advokat"

in an article that is surely meant for the lawyers at Enron.

u članku koji je sigurno namenjen advokatima Enrona.

"Surviving the Slammer: Do's and Don'ts."

"Preživeti zatvor: šta se sme, a šta ne".

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

"Don't use big words."

"Ne koristite velike reči."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

"Learn the lingua franca."

"Naučite lingua franca."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Yeah. "Lingua this, Frankie."

Da. "Lingua ovo, Frenki."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And I suppose it's a contradiction that I

I pretpostavljam da je protivrečno

talk about science when I don't know math.

da ja pričam o nauci kad ne znam matematiku.

You know, because -- and by the way to I was so grateful to Dean Kamen

Jer, znate - i uzgred, mnogo sam zahvalna Dinu Kejmenu

for pointing out that one of the reasons,

koji je istakao da jedan od razloga,

that there are cultural reasons

da postoje kulturni razlozi

that women and minorities don't enter the fields of science and technology --

da žene i manjine ne ulaze u oblasti nauke i tehnologije -

because for instance, the reason I don't do math is,

jer, na primer, razlog što ja ne znam matematiku je taj

I was taught to do math and read at the same time.

što su me učili da radim matematiku i čitam u isto vreme.

So you're six years old, you're reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,

I kad imate šest godina čitate Snežanu i sedam patuljaka

and it becomes rapidly obvious

i brzo postaje očigledno

that there are only two kinds of men in the world:

da postoje samo dve vrste muškaraca na svetu:

dwarves and Prince Charmings.

patuljci i prinčevi.

And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

I šanse su sedam prema jedan u korist toga da nećete naći princa.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

That's why little girls don't do math. It's too depressing.

Zato devojčice ne znaju matematiku. Suviše je depresivna.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Of course, by talking about science

Naravno, govoreći o nauci

I also may, as I did the other night,

mogu takođe, kao što sam uradila prošle noći,

incur the violent wrath of some scientists

da navučem na sebe žestok gnev nekih naučnika

who were very upset with me.

koje sam veoma naljutila.

I used the word postmodern as if it were OK.

Upotrebila sam izraz "postmoderan" kao da je to u redu.

And they got very upset.

I oni su se vrlo uzbudili.

One of them, to his credit, I think really just wanted to engage me

Jedan od njih je, ja mislim, samo hteo da me uvuče

in a serious argument.

u ozbiljnu raspravu.

But I don't engage in serious arguments.

Ali ja ne ulazim u ozbiljne rasprave.

I don't approve of them

Ne odobravam ih

because arguments, of course, are all about contradiction,

jer u raspravama se, naravno, radi o protivrečnostima

and they're shaped by the values that I have questions with.

i njih oblikuju vrednosti koje dovodim u pitanje.

I have questions with the values of Newtonian science,

Dovodim u pitanje vrednosti njutnovske nauke,

like rationality. You're supposed to be rational in an argument.

kao, na primer, racionalnost. Trebalo bi da budete racionalni u raspravi.

Well rationality is constructed

Racionalnost je sastavljena

by what Christie Hefner was talking about today,

od onoga o čemu je govorila Kristi Hefner danas,

that mind-body split, you know?

od te podeljenosti telo-um.

The head is good, body bad.

Glava je dobra, telo loše.

Head is ego, body id.

Glava je ego, telo je id.

When we say "I," -- as when Rene Descartes said,

Kad kažemo "ja" - kao što je rekao Rene Dekart

"I think therefore I am," --

"Mislim, dakle postojim" -

we mean the head.

mislimo na glavu.

And as David Lee Roth sang in "Just a Gigolo,"

I kao što je Dejvid Li Rot pevao u "Samo žigolo" ("Just a Gigolo"):

"I ain't got no body."

"Ja nemam telo".

That's how you get rationality.

Tako dobijate racionalnost.

And that's why so much of humor

Zato je tako mnogo humora u vezi sa

is the body asserting itself against the head.

davanjem prednosti telu u odnosu na glavu.

That's why you have toilet humor and sexual humor.

Zato imate klozetski humor i seksualni humor.

That's why you have the Raspyni Brothers

Zato imate braću Raspini

whacking Richard in the genital area.

koji udaraju Ričarda u predeo genitalija.

And we're laughing doubly then

I onda se duplo smejemo

because he's the body, but it's also --

jer on je telo, ali je takođe -

Voice offstage: Richard.

Glas izvan bine: Ričard.

Emily Levine: Richard. What did I say?

Emili Levin: Ričard. Šta sam rekla?

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Richard. Yes but it's also the head,

Ričard. Da, ali je takođe i glava,

the head of the conference.

glava konferencije.

That's the other way that humor --

To je drugi način na koji humor -

like Art Buchwald takes shots at the heads of state.

kao što Art Buhvald gađa šefa države.

It doesn't make quite as much money as body humor I'm sure --

To ne zarađuje, sigurna sam, toliko para kao telesni humor -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

but nevertheless, what makes us treasure you and adore you.

ali ipak čini da vas čuvamo i obožavamo.

There's also a contradiction in rationality in this country though,

Takođe postoji protivrečnost u racionalnosti u ovoj zemlji, a to je

which is, as much as we revere the head,

da bez obzira što toliko cenimo glavu,

we are very anti-intellectual.

vrlo smo antiintelektualni.

I know this because I read in the New York Times,

Ovo znam jer sam čitala u Njujork Tajmsu,

the Ayn Rand foundation took out a full-page ad

Fondacija Ajn Rend je imala oglas preko cele strane

after September 11,

posle 11. septembra

in which they said, "The problem is not Iraq or Iran,

u kojem je stajalo: "Problem nisu Irak ili Iran,

the problem in this country, facing this country

problem sa kojim se suočava ova zemlja,

is the university professors and their spawn."

su univerzitetski profesori i njihovo potomstvo."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

So I went back and re-read "The Fountainhead."

Pa sam se onda vratila i pročitala: "Fontana"

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I don't know how many of you have read it.

Ne znam koliko vas ju je pročitalo.

And I'm not an expert on sadomasochism.

Ja nisam stručnjak za sado-mazohizam.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

But let me just read you a couple of random passages from page 217.

Ali da vam pročitam par nasumičnih pasusa sa strane 217.

"The act of a master

"Čin gospodara

taking painful contemptuous possession of her,

koji ju je bolno prezrivo uzeo,

was the kind of rapture she wanted.

bio je ona vrsta ekstaze koju je želela.

When they lay together in bed it was,

Dok su zajedno ležali u krevetu bio je to,

as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded,

kao što je morao biti, kao što je priroda čina zahtevala,

an act of violence.

čin nasilja.

It was an act of clenched teeth and hatred. It was the unendurable.

Bio je to čin stegnutih zuba i mržnje. Bilo je nepodnošljivo.

Not a caress, but a wave of pain.

Ne milovanje, već talas bola.

The agony as an act of passion."

Agonija kao čin strasti."

So you can imagine my surprise

Tako da možete zamisliti moje iznenađenje

on reading in The New Yorker

kad sam pročitala u Njujorkeru

that Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve,

da Alan Grinspen, predsednik Federalnih rezervi,

claims Ayn Rand as his intellectual mentor.

tvrdi da mu je Ajn Rend intelektualni mentor.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

It's like finding out your nanny is a dominatrix.

To je kao da otkrijete da je vaša dadilja domina.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Bad enough we had to see J. Edgar Hoover in a dress.

Nije dovoljno što smo morali da vidimo Džej Edgara Huvera u haljini.

Now we have to picture Alan Greenspan

Sad moramo da zamišljamo Alana Grinspena

in a black leather corset, with a butt tattoo that says,

u crnom kožnom korsetu, sa tetovažom na zadnjici koja kaže:

"Whip inflation now."

"Smanjite inflaciju odmah."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And Ayn Rand of course, Ayn Rand

A Ajn Rend je naravno,

is famous for a philosophy called Objectivism,

poznata po filozofiji zvanoj objektivizam,

which reflects another value of Newtonian physics,

koja prikazuje drugu vrednost njutnovske fizike,

which is objectivity.

a to je objektivnost.

Objectivity basically is constructed

Objektivnost je u suštini izgrađena

in that same S&M way.

na isti taj sado-mazo način.

It's the subject subjugating the object.

Subjekat se potčinjava objektu.

That's how you assert yourself.

Tako se potvrđujete.

You make yourself the active voice.

Činite od sebe aktivni glas.

And the object is the passive no-voice.

A objekat je pasivni ne-glas.

I was so fascinated by that Oxygen commercial.

Bila sam fascinirana reklamom za Oksidžen.

I don't know if you know this but --

Ne znam da li znate ovo ali -

maybe it's different now, or maybe you were making a statement --

možda je sada drugačije ili je to možda bila izjava -

but in many hospital nurseries across the country,

ali u mnogim porodilištima širom zemlje

until very recently anyway, according to a book by Jessica Benjamin,

sve donedavno, po knjizi Džesike Bendžamin,

the signs over the little boys cribs read,

na tablama iznad krevetaca dečaka je pisalo:

"I'm a boy,"

"Ja sam dečak",

and the signs over the little girls cribs read,

a iznad krevetaca devojčica je pisalo:

"It's a girl." Yeah.

"To je devojčica." Da.

So the passivity was culturally

Tako je pasivnost kulturno

projected onto the little girls.

projektovana na devojčice.

And this still goes on as I think I told you last year.

I ovo je i dalje tako, kao što sam vam rekla, mislim prošle godine.

There's a poll that proves --

Postoji anketa koja pokazuje -

there was a poll that was given by Time magazine,

anketa koju je dao časopis Tajm,

in which only men were asked, "Have you ever had sex

u kojoj su pitali samo muškarce: "Jeste li ikada imali seks

with a woman you actively disliked?"

sa ženom prema kojoj ste ispoljavali otvorenu netrpeljivost?"

And well, yeah.

i, da.

Well, 58 percent said yes,

58 procenata je reklo da jeste,

which I think is overinflated though

što mislim da je prenaduvano

because so many men if you just say,

jer toliko muškaraca, ako samo pitate:

"Have you ever had sex ... " "Yes!"

"Jeste li imali seks..." "Da!"

They don't even wait for the rest of it.

Ne sačekaju čak ni ostatak pitanja.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And of course two percent did not know whether they'd had --

I naravno, dva procenta nije znalo da li su imali -

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

That's the first callback,

To je prva

of my attempted quadruple.

od četiri šale u pokušaju.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

So this subject-object thing,

Ovaj odnos subjekat-objekat

is part of something I'm very interested in

je deo nečega što me veoma zanima

because this is why, frankly, I believe in political correctness.

jer ovo je ono zbog čega verujem u političku korektnost.

I do. I think it can go too far.

Verujem. Mislim da mogu da odem tako daleko.

I think Ringling Brothers may have gone too far

Mislim da su braća Ringling možda preterali

with an ad they took out in the New York Times Magazine.

sa oglasom koji su dali u Njujork Tajmsu.

"We have a lifelong emotional and financial

"Imamo doživotnu emocionalnu i finansijsku

commitment to our Asian Elephant partners."

obavezu prema našim partnerima azijskim slonovima."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Maybe too far. But you know --

Možda preterano. Ali znate -

I don't think that

ne mislim da je isto

a person of color making fun of white people

kada obojena osoba ismeva belce

is the same thing as a white person making fun of people of color.

i kada belac ismeva obojene.

Or women making fun of men is the same as men making fun of women.

Ili da je isto kad žene ismevaju muškarce i kad muškarci ismevaju žene.

Or poor people making fun of rich people, the same as rich people.

Ili siromašni koji ismevaju bogate, isto kao bogati...

I think you can make fun of the have but not the have-nots,

Mislim da možete ismevati ono što se ima ali ne ono što se nema

which is why you don't see me making fun of

i zbog toga ne vidite mene da ismevam

Kenneth Lay and his charming wife.

Keneta Leja i njegovu simpatičnu ženu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

What's funny about being down to four houses?

Šta je smešno u tome da budete srozani na četiri kuće?

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And I really learned this lesson

A stvarno sam naučila ovu lekciju

during the sex scandals of the Clinton administration or,

tokom seks skandala Klintonove administracije

Or as I call them, the good ol' days.

ili kako ih ja zovem, dobrih starih dana.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

When people I knew, you know, people who considered themselves liberal,

Kada su ljudi koje znam, ljudi koji smatraju sebe liberalnim

and everything else,

i sve ostalo,

were making fun of Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones.

pravili šale na račun Dženifer Flauers i Pole Džons.

Basically, they were making fun of them for being

U suštini, ismevali su ih zbog toga što su

trailer trash or white trash.

belci seljaci ili odrpanci.

It seems, I suppose, a harmless prejudice

Pretpostavljam da to izgleda kao bezazlena predrasuda

and that you're not really hurting anybody.

i da nikoga stvarno ne povređujete.

Until you read, as I did, an ad in the Los Angeles Times.

Dok ne pročitate, kao što sam ja učinila, oglas u Los Anđeles Tajmsu.

"For sale: White trash compactor."

"Na prodaju sabijač belog đubreta."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

So this whole subject-object thing

Tako da cela ova stvar subjekat-objekat

has relevance to humor in this way.

ima značaj za humor na ovaj način.

I read a book by a woman named Amy Richlin,

Pročitala sam knjigu žene koja se zove Ejmi Ričlin,

who is the chair of the Classics department at USC.

koja je šef katedre za klasiku na Univerzitetu južne Kalifornije.

And the book is called "The Garden of Priapus."

A knjiga se zove "Prijapov vrt".

And she says that Roman humor

Ona kaže da se humor starog Rima

mirrors the construction of Roman society.

ogleda u gradnji rimskog društva.

So that Roman society was very top/bottom,

Tako da je rimsko društvo bilo vrlo "odozgo nadole"

as ours is to some degree.

kao i naše u nekoj meri.

And so was humor.

I takav je bio humor.

There always had to be the butt of a joke.

Uvek je morala da postoji zadnjica šale.

So it was always the satirist,

Uvek je tu bio satiričar,

like Juvenal or Martial,

kao Juvenal ili Marcijal,

represented the audience,

koji je predstavljao publiku

and he was going to make fun of the outsider,

i on je trebalo da ismeva onoga ko je izvan,

the person who didn't share that subject status.

osobu koja nije delila isti status subjekta.

And in stand-up of course,

I u stend apu, naravno,

the stand-up comedian is supposed to dominate the audience.

stend ap komičar treba da dominira publikom.

A lot of heckling is the tension

Puno agresivnog izazivanja stvara napetost

of trying to make sure that the

u pokušaju da se vidi

comedian is going to be able to dominate,

da li će komičar biti sposoban da dominira

and overcome the heckler.

i porazi izazivača.

And I got good at that when I was in stand up.

Bila sam dobra u tome kad sam radila stend ap.

But I always hated it because they were

Ali uvek sam to mrzela, jer su oni

dictating the terms of the interaction,

diktirali uslove interakcije,

in the same way that engaging in a serious argument

isto onako kao kad ulaženje u ozbiljnu raspravu

determines the content, to some degree,

određuje sadržaj do nekog stepena,

of what you're talking about.

onoga o čemu govorite.

And I was looking for a form

A ja sam tražila formu

that didn't have that.

u kojoj toga nema.

And so I wanted something that was more interactive.

Želela sam nešto što je interaktivnije.

I know that word is so debased now

Znam da je ta reč sada srozana

by the use of it by Internet marketers.

upotrebom od strane internet trgovaca.

I really miss the old telemarketers now, I'll tell you that.

Stvarno mi nedostaju stari prodavci preko telefona.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I do, because at least there you stood a chance. You know?

Da, jer tamo ste barem imali neke šanse. Znate?

I used to actually hang up on them.

Ja sam im obično spuštala slušalicu.

But then I read in "Dear Abby" that that was rude.

Ali onda sam pročitala u kolumni "Draga Ebi" da je to nepristojno.

So the next time that one called

Tako da sledeći put kad je jedan pozvao

I let him get halfway through his spiel and then I said,

pustila sam ga da dođe do pola svoje priče i rekla:

"You sound sexy."

"Zvučiš seksi".

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

He hung up on me!

On je spustio slušalicu meni!

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

But the interactivity allows the audience

Ali interaktivnost omogućava publici

to shape what you're going to do as much as

da oblikuje ono što ćete vi uraditi isto onoliko

you shape their experience of the world.

koliko vi oblikujete njihov doživljaj sveta.

And that's really what I'm looking for.

I to je zapravo ono što tražim.

And I was sort of, as I was starting to analyze

Kako sam počela da analiziram

what exactly it is that I do,

šta je tačno ono što radim,

I read a book called "Trickster Makes This World," by Lewis Hyde.

pročitala sam knjigu "Prevarant stvara ovaj svet" od Luisa Hajda.

And it was like being psychoanalyzed.

I kao da sam bila na psihoanalizi.

I mean he had laid it all out.

Sve je izložio.

And then coming to this conference,

I onda, dolazeći na ovu konferenciju,

I realized that most everybody here

shvatila sam da uglavnom svi ovde

shared those same qualities

imaju ove iste kvalitete

because really what trickster is

jer prevarant je zapravo

is an agent of change.

agent promene.

Trickster is a change agent.

Prevarant je agent promene.

And the qualities that I'm about to describe

I kvaliteti koje ću sada opisati

are the qualities that make it possible

su kvaliteti koji omogućavaju

to make change happen.

da se desi promena.

And one of these is boundary crossing.

Jedan od njih je prelaženje granice.

I think this is what so, in fact, infuriated the scientists.

Mislim da je ovo to što je tako razbesnelo naučnike.

But I like to cross boundaries.

Ali ja volim da prelazim granice.

I like to, as I said, talk about things I know nothing about.

Volim, kao što sam rekla, da govorim o stvarima o kojima ne znam ništa.

(Phone Ringing)

(Telefon zvoni)

I hope that's my agent,

Nadam se da je to moj agent

because you aren't paying me anything.

jer me vi ne plaćate ništa.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And I think it's good to talk about things I know nothing about

I mislim da je dobro da pričam o stvarima o kojima ne znam ništa

because I bring a fresh viewpoint to it, you know?

jer donosim novu tačku gledišta na to, zar ne?

I'm able to see the contradiction

Mogu da vidim kontradikciju

that you may not be able to see.

koju vi možda ne možete.

Like for instance a mime once --

Kao na primer pantomimičar jednom -

or a meme as he called himself.

ili mim, kako je nazivao sebe.

He was a very selfish meme.

Bio je vrlo egocentričan mim.

And he said that I had to show more respect

Rekao je da treba da pokažem više poštovanja

because it took up to 18 years

jer mu je trebalo 18 godina

to learn how to do mime properly.

da nauči kako da radi pantomimu pravilno.

And I said, "Well, that's how you know only stupid people go into it."

A ja sam rekla: "Pa, tako znate da se samo glupi bave time."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

It only takes two years to learn how to talk.

Potrebno je samo dve godine da se nauči da se govori.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

And you know people, this is the problem with

I znate ljudi - ovo je problem

quote, objectivity, unquote.

sa "objektivnošću".

When you're only surrounded by people

Kad ste samo okruženi ljudima

who speak the same vocabulary as you,

koji govore istim rečnikom kao vi

or share the same set of assumptions as you,

ili dele iste pretpostavke sa vama,

you start to think that that's reality.

počinjete da mislite da je to realnost.

Like economists, you know, their definition of rational,

Kao ekonomisti, na primer, njihova definicija racionalnog je

that we all act out of our own economic self-interest.

da svi radimo u skladu sa svojim ekonomskim samointeresom.

Well, look at Michael Hawley,

Pa pogledajte Majkla Houlija

or look at Dean Kamen,

ili Dina Kejmena

or look at my grandmother.

ili moju babu.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests,

Moja baba je uvek radila u korist drugih ljudi

whether they wanted her to or not.

bilo da su oni to hteli ili ne.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

If they had had an Olympics in martyrdom,

Da su imali olimpijadu u mučeništvu

my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

moja baba bi namerno izgubila.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

"No, you take the prize.

"Ne, vi uzmite nagradu.

You're young. I'm old. Who's going to see it?

Vi ste mladi. Ja sam stara. Ko će da je vidi?

Where am I going? I'm going to die soon."

Gde ja idem? Umreću uskoro."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

So that's one -- this boundary crossing,

Tako da je to - ovo prelaženje granice,

this go-between which --

ovaj posrednik koji -

Fritz Lanting, is that his name,

Fric Lenting, je l' se tako zove,

actually said that he was a go-between.

je u stvari rekao da je bio posrednik.

That's an actual quality of the trickster.

To je prava osobina prevaranta.

And another is, non-oppositional strategies.

A druga je: neopozicione strategije

And this is instead of contradiction.

I ovo je umesto kontradikcije.

Where you deny the other person's reality,

Kad osporavate realnost druge osobe

you have paradox

imate paradoks

where you allow more than one reality to coexist,

gde dozvoljavate da postoji više od jedne realnosti,

I think there's another philosophical construction.

mislim da postoji još jedna filozofska konstrukcija.

I'm not sure what it's called.

Nisam sigurna kako se zove.

But my example of it is a sign that I saw in a jewelry store.

Ali moj primer za to je natpis koji sam videla u juvelirnici.

It said, "Ears pierced while you wait."

Pisalo je: "Uši izbušene dok čekate."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

There the alternative just boggles the imagination.

Tu alternativa prosto izmiče mašti.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

"Oh no. Thanks though, I'll leave them here. Thanks very much.

"Ne. Hvala, ostaviću ih ovde. Hvala puno.

I have some errands to run. So I'll be back to pick them up

Imam neke poslove da završim. Vratiću se da ih pokupim

around five, if that's OK with you.

oko pet, ako vam to odgovara.

Huh? Huh? What? Can't hear you."

A? A? Šta? Ne čujem vas."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And another attribute of the trickster

I još jedna osobina prevaranta je

is smart luck.

pametna sreća.

That accidents, that Louis Kahn, who talked about accidents,

Te nezgode, o kojima je Luis Kan govorio,

this is another quality of the trickster.

to je još jedna osobina prevaranta.

The trickster has a mind that is prepared for the unprepared.

Prevarant ima um koji je pripremljen na nepripremljeno.

That, and I will say this to the scientists,

To i, reći ču ovo naučnicima,

that the trickster has the ability to hold

to da prevarant ima sposobnost

his ideas lightly

da ima površne ideje

so that he can let room in for new ideas

tako da može da ostavi mesta za nove

or to see the contradictions or the hidden problems

ili da vidi kontradikcije ili skrivene probleme

with his ideas.

u svojim idejama.

I had no joke for that.

Nemam vic za to.

I just wanted to put the scientists in their place.

Samo sam htela da stavim naučnike na svoje mesto.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

But here's how I think I like to make change,

Evo kako ja volim da pravim promene

and that is in making connections.

i to je pravljenjem veza.

This is what I tend to see

Ovo je nešto što obično vidim

almost more than contradictions.

skoro i više nego kontradikcije.

Like the, what do you call those toes of the gecko?

Kao, kako zovete one prste gekoa?

You know, the toes of the gecko,

Znate, prsti gekoa,

curling and uncurling like the fingers of Michael Moschen.

uvijaju se i odvijaju kao prsti Majkla Mošena.

I love connections.

Volim povezivanja.

Like I'll read that one of the two attributes

Kao što ću pročitati da je jedna od dve osobine

of matter in the Newtonian universe --

materije u njutnovskom univerzumu -

there are two attributes of matter in the Newtonian universe --

postoje dve osobine materije u njutnovskom univerzumu -

one is space occupancy. Matter takes up space.

jedna je zauzimanje prostora. Materija zauzima prostor.

I guess the more you matter the more space you take up,

Pretpostavljam da što ste više materijalni, to više prostora zauzimate,

which explains the whole SUV phenomenon.

što objašnjava ceo fenomen velikih luksuznih terenaca.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And the other one though is impenetrability.

A druga je neprobojnost.

Well, in ancient Rome, impenetrability

U starom Rimu neprobojnost

was the criterion of masculinity.

je bilo merilo muškosti.

Masculinity depended on you

Muškost je zavisila od toga

being the active penetrator.

da li ste aktivni probijač ili ne.

And then, in economics, there's an active producer

I onda, u ekonomiji postoji aktivni proizvođač

and a passive consumer,

i pasivni konzument

which explains why business always has to

što objašnjava zašto biznis uvek mora da

penetrate new markets.

probija nova tržišta.

Well yeah, I mean why we forced China

Mislim, zašto smo naterali Kinu

to open her markets.

da otvori svoja tržišta.

And didn't that feel good?

Zar nije to bio dobar osećaj?

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And now we're being penetrated.

I sad probijaju nas.

You know the biotech companies are actually going inside us

Biotehnološke kompanije stvarno ulaze u nas

and planting their little flags on our genes.

i usađuju svoje male oznake u naše gene.

You know we're being penetrated.

Znate da nas probijaju.

And I suspect, by someone who actively dislikes us.

I sumnjam da je to neko ko nas otvoreno ne voli.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

That's the second of the quadruple.

To je druga od četiri šale.

Yes of course you got that. Thank you very much.

Naravno da ste shvatili. Hvala vam puno.

I still have a way to go.

Još mi je ostalo.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And what I hope to do, when I make these connections,

I ono čemu se nadam kad pravim ove veze je

is short circuit people's thinking.

da napravim kratak spoj u razmišljanju ljudi.

You know, make you not follow your usual

Da učinim da ne pratite svoj uobičajeni

train of association,

tok asocijacija,

but make you rewire.

već da prespojite.

It literally -- when people say about the shock of recognition,

Bukvalno - kad ljudi govore o šoku od prepoznavanja,

it's literally re-cognition, rewiring how you think --

bukvalno je pre-poznavanje prespajanje onoga kako razmišljate -

I had a joke to go with this and I forgot it.

imala sam vic u vezi ovoga i zaboravila sam ga.

I'm so sorry. I'm getting like

Žao mi je. Postajem kao

the woman in that joke about --

žena u onom vicu o -

have you heard this joke about the woman driving with her mother?

znate onaj vic o ženi koja se vozi sa svojom majkom?

And the mother is elderly.

Majka je starija žena.

And the mother goes right through a red light.

I prođe kroz crveno svetlo.

And the daughter doesn't want to say anything.

I ćerka neće da kaže ništa.

She doesn't want to be like, "You're too old to drive."

Neće da kaže nešto kao: "Suviše si stara da voziš."

And the mother goes through a second red light.

I majka prođe kroz drugo crveno.

And the daughter says, as tactfully as possible,

I ćerka kaže, sa što je moguće više obzira:

"Mom, are you aware that you just went through two red lights?"

"Mama, je l' znaš da si upravo prošla kroz dva crvena svetla?"

And the mother says, "Oh! Am I driving?"

I majka kaže: "Oh! Ja vozim?"

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

And that's the shock of recognition

I to je šok od prepoznavanja

at the shock of recognition.

u šoku od prepoznavanja.

That completes the quadruple.

To zaokružuje četvorku.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I just want to say two more things.

Samo želim da kažem još dve stvari.

One is, another characteristic of trickster

Jedna je, da je još jedna osobina prevaranta

is that the trickster has to

to da prevarant mora

walk this fine line.

da hoda po tankoj liniji.

He has to have poise.

Mora da ima ravnotežu.

And you know the biggest hurdle for me,

I najveća prepona za mene,

in doing what I do,

u onome što radim,

is constructing my performance

je da osmislim svoj nastup

so that it's prepared and unprepared.

tako da bude i pripremljen i nepripremljen.

Finding the balance between those things

Pronalaženje ravnoteže između ovih stvari

is always dangerous

je uvek opasno

because you might tip off too much in the direction of unprepared.

jer možete otići suviše u smeru nepripremljenog.

But being too prepared doesn't leave room

A ako ste suviše pripremljeni, ne ostaje prostora

for the accidents to happen.

za nezgode.

I was thinking about what Moshe Safdie

Razmišljala sam o onome što je Moše Safdi

said yesterday about beauty

juče rekao o lepoti

because in his book, Hyde says that

jer u njegovoj knjizi Hajd kaže

sometimes trickster can tip over into beauty.

da ponekad prevarant može da uskoči u lepotu.

But to do that you have to

Ali da biste to uradili morate da

lose all the other qualities

izgubite sve druge kvalitete,

because once you're into beauty

jer jednom kad se nađete u lepoti,

you're into a finished thing.

ušli ste u svršenu stvar.

You're into something that

U nečemu ste što

occupies space and inhabits time.

zauzima prostor i živi u vremenu.

It's an actual thing.

Realna je stvar.

And it is always extraordinary to see a thing of beauty.

I uvek je sjajno videti lepu stvar.

But if you don't do that,

Ali ako to ne radite,

if you allow for the accident to keep on happening,

ako dozvolite nezgodama da se dešavaju,

you have the possibility of getting on a wavelength.

imate mogućnost da stignete na talasnu dužinu.

I like to think of what I do as a probability wave.

Volim da mislim o tome kao o talasu verovatnoće.

When you go into beauty the probability wave

Kad uđete u lepotu talas verovatnoće

collapses into one possibility.

se urušava u jednu mogućnost.

And I like to explore all the possibilities

A ja volim da istražujem sve mogućnosti

in the hope that you'll be on the wavelength of your audience.

u nadi da ćete biti na istoj talasnoj dužini kao vaša publika.

And the one final quality I want to say about trickster is

I poslednja osobina prevaranta koju želim da pomenem je ta

that he doesn't have a home.

da on nema dom.

He's always on the road.

Uvek je na putu.

I want to say to you Richard, in closing,

I želim da vam kažem Ričarde, na kraju,

that in TED you've created a home.

da ste u TED-u stvorili dom.

And thank you for inviting me into it.

I hvala vam što ste me pozvali u njega.

Thank you very much.

Hvala vam puno.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)