The lies our culture tells us about what matters --- and a better way to live | David Brooks

譯者: Yanyan Hong 審譯者: Helen Chang

So, we all have bad seasons in life.

人生中總會有些不好的時期。

And I had one in 2013.

我在 2013 年就有一段。

My marriage had just ended,

我的婚姻破裂了，

and I was humiliated by that failed commitment.

沒能履行承諾，讓我感到羞恥。

My kids had left home for college or were leaving.

我的孩子不是離家去讀大學 就是快要離家了。

I grew up mostly in the conservative movement,

我主要是在保守運動中成長，

but conservatism had changed,

但保守主義已經改變了，

so I lost a lot of those friends, too.

所以我也失去了很多那邊的朋友。

And so what I did is, I lived alone in an apartment,

所以，我獨居在公寓中，

and I just worked.

埋頭工作。

If you opened the kitchen drawers where there should have been utensils,

如果打開該是放餐具的廚房抽屜，

there were Post-it notes.

看到的是便利貼；

If you opened the other drawers where there should have been plates,

如果打開其他應該放盤子的抽屜，

看到的是我放的信封。

I had envelopes.

I had work friends, weekday friends, but I didn't have weekend friends.

我有工作上的朋友，平日的朋友， 但我沒有週末的朋友。

And so my weekends were these long, howling silences.

所以，我的週末都是 漫長的荒涼沉默。

And I was lonely.

我很寂寞。

And loneliness, unexpectedly, came to me in the form of --

寂寞出忽意料地找上門，

以一種——

it felt like fear, a burning in my stomach.

感覺像是恐懼，胃部有灼燒感；

And it felt a little like drunkenness,

感覺也有點像喝醉，

just making bad decisions, just fluidity, lack of solidity.

就像做了很爛的決定，

只是在流動著， 沒有穩定性。

And the painful part of that moment was the awareness

那時痛苦的是

意識到我空空蕩蕩的公寓

that the emptiness in my apartment was just reflective of the emptiness

其實反映了我內在的空虛，

in myself,

和我迷上了一些 我們文化所教的謊言。

and that I had fallen for some of the lies that our culture tells us.

The first lie is that career success is fulfilling.

第一個謊言是職涯成功令人滿足。

I've had a fair bit of career success,

我的職涯算得上是小有成就，

and I've found that it helps me avoid the shame I would feel

我發現成功協助我避免

覺得自己是魯蛇的羞恥感，

if I felt myself a failure,

but it hasn't given me any positive good.

但它並沒有給我任何正面的好處。

The second lie is I can make myself happy,

第二個謊言是我能讓自己快樂，

that if I just win one more victory,

只要我能再贏得一次勝利，

lose 15 pounds, do a little more yoga,

再減十五磅，做多一點瑜伽，

I'll get happy.

我就會快樂。

And that's the lie of self-sufficiency.

那是個我們可自給自足的謊言。

But as anybody on their deathbed will tell you,

但，任何臨終的人都會告訴你，

the things that make people happy is the deep relationships of life,

能讓人快樂的， 是人生中的深厚情感關係，

the losing of self-sufficiency.

不是自給自足。

The third lie is the lie of the meritocracy.

第三個謊言是精英領導。

The message of the meritocracy is you are what you accomplish.

精英領導的訊息是你的成就代表你。

The myth of the meritocracy is you can earn dignity

精英主義的迷思是

將自己和有聲望的品牌 綁在一起，就能掙得尊嚴。

by attaching yourself to prestigious brands.

The emotion of the meritocracy is conditional love,

精英領導的情緒是有條件的愛，

you can "earn" your way to love.

你可以「掙得」愛。

The anthropology of the meritocracy is you're not a soul to be purified,

精英領導的人類學就是

你並不是要被救贖的靈魂，

you're a set of skills to be maximized.

你是要被最大化的一組技能。

And the evil of the meritocracy

而精英領導的邪惡

is that people who've achieved a little more than others

則是成就比別人高一點點的人

are actually worth a little more than others.

價值也比其他人多一點點。

And so the wages of sin are sin.

所以罪過的報償就是罪過。

And my sins were the sins of omission--

我的罪過是疏忽的罪過——

not reaching out, failing to show up for my friends,

沒有向外伸出援手， 沒有為了朋友而露面，

evasion, avoiding conflict.

遁辭，避免衝突。

And the weird thing was that as I was falling into the valley --

奇怪的是，當我落入深谷中時——

it was a valley of disconnection --

那是失去連結的深谷——

a lot of other people were doing that, too.

其他很多人也一樣。

And that's sort of the secret to my career;

那是我職涯的秘密；

發生在我身上的許多事

a lot of the things that happen to me

are always happening to a lot of other people.

也都會發生在很多人身上。

我是一個非常普通的人， 有著較優秀的溝通技能。

I'm a very average person with above average communication skills.

（笑聲）

(Laughter)

And so I was detached.

所以我疏離了。

And at the same time, a lot of other people were detached

同時其他許多人也疏離了，

and isolated and fragmented from each other.

彼此斷開，孤立起來。

Thirty-five percent of Americans over 45 are chronically lonely.

四十五歲以上的美國人， 有 35% 長期感到寂寞。

Only eight percent of Americans report having meaningful conversation

只有 8% 的美國人回報說他們

和鄰居進行有意義的交談。

with their neighbors.

Only 32 percent of Americans say they trust their neighbors,

只有 32% 的美國人說， 他們信任他們的鄰居，

and only 18 percent of millennials.

千禧世代則只有 18%。

The fastest-growing political party is unaffiliated.

成長最快速的政黨是無黨派。

成長最快速的宗教運動是無宗教。

The fastest-growing religious movement is unaffiliated.

Depression rates are rising, mental health problems are rising.

憂鬱症的比率在升高， 心理健康問題越來越多。

The suicide rate has risen 30 percent since 1999.

從 1999 年起， 自殺率就提升了 30%。

For teen suicides over the last several years,

至於過去幾年的青少年自殺狀況，

the suicide rate has risen by 70 percent.

自殺率提升了 70%。

Forty-five thousand Americans kill themselves every year;

每年有四萬五千名美國人自殺；

72,000 die from opioid addictions;

七萬兩千人死於類鴉片藥物成癮；

life expectancy is falling, not rising.

平均壽命在下降，不是上升。

So what I mean to tell you, I flew out here to say

所以，我想要告訴各位， 我飛到這裡來是要說，

that we have an economic crisis, we have environmental crisis,

我們有經濟危機，有環境危機，

有政治危機。

we have a political crisis.

We also have a social and relational crisis;

我們也有社交和關係危機；

我們在深谷中。

we're in the valley.

We're fragmented from each other,

我們和彼此斷開了，

我們有一連串的謊言 從華盛頓湧出來……

we've got cascades of lies coming out of Washington ...

We're in the valley.

我們在深谷中。

And so I've spent the last five years --

我花了過去五年的時間——

how do you get out of a valley?

要如何離開深谷？

The Greeks used to say, "You suffer your way to wisdom."

以前，希臘人說： 「通往智慧的路上全是苦難。」

And from that dark period where I started, I've had a few realizations.

我從那段黑暗時期有了些頓悟。

The first is, freedom sucks.

第一，自由糟透了。

Economic freedom is OK, political freedom is great,

經濟自由還可以，政治自由很棒，

social freedom sucks.

社會自由糟透了。

The unrooted man is the adrift man.

沒有根的人就是漂流的人。

The unrooted man is the unremembered man, because he's uncommitted to things.

沒有根的人是不被記得的人， 因為他無法做出承諾。

Freedom is not an ocean you want to swim in,

自由並不是個你想要游進去的海洋，

it's a river you want to get across,

它是條你要渡過的河流，

so you can commit and plant yourself on the other side.

這樣你才能在對岸做出承諾、紮根。

The second thing I learned

我學到的第二件事，

is that when you have one of those bad moments in life,

就是當你的人生不順時，

you can either be broken,

你可以被擊碎，

or you can be broken open.

也可以被擊醒。

And we all know people who are broken.

我們都認識被擊碎的人。

They've endured some pain or grief, they get smaller,

忍受某些痛苦或哀傷 使他們變得渺小，

they get angrier, resentful, they lash out.

變得更憤怒、怨恨， 他們會猛烈斥責。

As the saying is,

有句話說：

"Pain that is not transformed gets transmitted."

「痛苦不是被轉化， 而是被傳送出去。」

But other people are broken open.

但也有其他人被擊醒了。

Suffering's great power is that it's an interruption of life.

苦難的強大力量在於它中斷人生，

It reminds you you're not the person you thought you were.

提醒你不是自以為的那個人。

神學家保羅田立克說過：

The theologian Paul Tillich said

what suffering does is it carves through what you thought was the floor

苦難的功能在於會切開那個

你以為是你靈魂地下室的地板，

of the basement of your soul,

and it carves through that, revealing a cavity below,

切開它，露出下面的空間，

and it carves through that, revealing a cavity below.

苦難會切開它，露出下面的空間。

You realize there are depths of yourself you never anticipated,

你會發現自己的深度其實超出預期，

and only spiritual and relational food will fill those depths.

只能被靈糧和關係之糧充滿。

當你下去到那裡時， 就能脫離腦袋裡的自我，

And when you get down there, you get out of the head of the ego

進入到心裡，

and you get into the heart,

the desiring heart.

渴望的心。

The idea that what we really yearn for is longing and love for another,

我們所盼求的想法， 是對另一個人的愛和渴望，

the kind of thing that Louis de Bernières described in his book,

和路易斯·迪柏尼爾斯

在《戰地情人》書中所描述的很像。

"Captain Corelli's Mandolin."

He had an old guy talking to his daughter

書中有個老人跟他的女兒

about his relationship with his late wife,

談到他和已故妻子之間的關係，

and the old guy says,

老人說：

"Love itself is whatever is leftover when being in love is burned away.

「熱戀期結束後，剩下的才是愛。

And this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

愛既是藝術，也是幸運的意外。

Your mother and I had it.

你母親和我曾經擁有它。

We had roots that grew towards each other underground,

我們在地下的根朝向彼此生長，

and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches,

當枝上所有的美麗花朵都掉落時，

we discovered that we are one tree and not two."

發現我們是一棵樹，不是兩棵。」

That's what the heart yearns for.

那就是心之所嚮。

The second thing you discover is your soul.

你發現的第二樣是你的靈魂。

Now, I don't ask you to believe in God or not believe in God,

我不是在請你信神或不信神，

but I do ask you to believe that there's a piece of you

我是要請你相信，有一部分的你

沒有形體、尺寸、顏色、重量，

that has no shape, size, color or weight,

但那部分卻能給你 無限的尊嚴和價值。

but that gives you infinite dignity and value.

Rich and successful people don't have more of this

富裕且成功的人並不會

than less successful people.

比沒那麼成功的人擁有更多靈魂。

Slavery is wrong because it's an obliteration of another soul.

奴役制度錯在抹滅另一個靈魂。

Rape is not just an attack on a bunch of physical molecules,

強暴不只是攻擊一堆實體的分子，

而是試圖侮辱另一個人的靈魂。

it's an attempt to insult another person's soul.

And what the soul does is it yearns for righteousness.

靈魂盼望公正。

The heart yearns for fusion with another, the soul yearns for righteousness.

心盼望與他人融合，靈魂盼望公正。

And that led to my third realization, which I borrowed from Einstein:

那就要談到我的第三項頓悟， 讓我借用愛因斯坦的話：

"The problem you have is not going to be solved

「在意識層級創造的問題

at the level of consciousness on which you created it.

無法在意識層級被解決。

You have to expand to a different level of consciousness."

得要擴張到不同的意識層級。」

So what do you do?

所以，該怎麼做呢？

Well, the first thing you do is you throw yourself on your friends

首先，你要奔向朋友，

進行比以前更深刻的對談。

and you have deeper conversations that you ever had before.

但第二是

But the second thing you do,

得要獨自一人進到荒野中。

you have to go out alone into the wilderness.

那裡沒有人，你不用做任何表演，

You go out into that place where there's nobody there to perform,

自我沒事幹，它就會消失，

and the ego has nothing to do, and it crumbles,

那時候，你才有被愛的能力。

and only then are you capable of being loved.

I have a friend who said that when her daughter was born,

一位朋友說，當她的女兒出生時，

she realized that she loved her more than evolution required.

她發現她對女兒的愛 超越了演化的需求。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

And I've always loved that.

我一直很喜歡那句話。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

Because it talks about the peace that's at the deep of ourself,

說的是我們內心深處的平靜，

our inexplicable care for one another.

一種無法解釋，對他人的在乎。

And when you touch that spot, you're ready to be rescued.

接觸到那個點，就可被拯救了。

The hard thing about when you're in the valley

身陷深谷難在爬不出來；

is that you can't climb out;

somebody has to reach in and pull you out.

必須要有人伸手拉你出來。

It happened to me.

我就遇到了。

I got, luckily, invited over to a house by a couple named Kathy and David,

我很幸運，被一對夫妻 凱西和大衛邀請到他們家，

and they were --

他們——

They had a kid in the DC public school, his name's Santi.

他們的孩子山提在讀 華盛頓特區的公立學校。

Santi had a friend who needed a place to stay

山提有個朋友需要有個地方待，

因為他的父母有些健康問題。

because his mom had some health issues.

And then that kid had a friend and that kid had a friend.

那孩子有個朋友，朋友有個朋友， 朋友又有個朋友。

When I went to their house six years ago,

六年前，我到他們家時，

I walk in the door, there's like 25 around the kitchen table,

我走進門，大概有 二十五個人圍著餐桌坐，

a whole bunch sleeping downstairs in the basement.

還有一堆人睡在地下室。

I reach out to introduce myself to a kid,

我主動向一個孩子自我介紹，

and he says, "We don't really shake hands here.

他說：「在這裡我們不握手。

We just hug here."

我們只擁抱。」

And I'm not the huggiest guy on the face of the earth,

我不是地球表面上最愛擁抱的人，

but I've been going back to that home every Thursday night when I'm in town,

但只要我在那個鎮上，每個星期四 晚上我都會再回到他們家，

and just hugging all those kids.

去擁抱那些孩子。

They demand intimacy.

他們在尋求親密感。

They demand that you behave in a way where you're showing all the way up.

他們希望你能完全放開自我。

And they teach you a new way to live,

他們教導你一種新的生活方式，

which is the cure for all the ills of our culture

那是我們文化中所有疾病的解藥，

which is a way of direct -- really putting relationship first,

這種方式就是真正直接 把關係放在第一，

not just as a word, but as a reality.

不只是口頭上，是真的去做。

And the beautiful thing is, these communities are everywhere.

美好的是，這種團體到處都有。

I started something at the Aspen Institute called "Weave: The Social Fabric."

我在阿斯彭研究所發起了

「編織：社會之網 (Weave: The Social Fabric)」。

This is our logo here.

這是我們的標誌。

And we plop into a place and we find weavers anywhere, everywhere.

我們每到一個地方， 就會發現編織者無所不在。

We find people like Asiaha Butler, who grew up in --

我們發現像艾西哈·巴特勒 這樣的人，她成長在——

who lived in Chicago, in Englewood, in a tough neighborhood.

她住在芝加哥，恩格爾伍德， 很不好生存的鄰里。

And she was about to move because it was so dangerous,

她正打算搬走， 因為那裡太危險了，

and she looked across the street and she saw two little girls

她看向對街，看到兩個小女孩，

playing in an empty lot with broken bottles,

在空地上玩碎掉的瓶子，

and she turned to her husband and she said, "We're not leaving.

她向丈夫說：「我們不要搬走。

We're not going to be just another family that abandon that."

我們不要成為另一個 丟下這些而搬走的家庭。

And she Googled "volunteer in Englewood," and now she runs R.A.G.E.,

她搜尋了「恩格爾伍德志工」， 現在她在經營 R.A.G.E，

the big community organization there.

那裡的一個大型社區組織。

有些人的深谷很艱苦。

Some of these people have had tough valleys.

I met a woman named Sarah in Ohio who came home from an antiquing trip

我遇過一名女子，俄亥俄州的 莎菈，她出門買古董之後返家，

and found that her husband had killed himself and their two kids.

發現她的丈夫帶著兩個孩子自殺。

She now runs a free pharmacy, she volunteers in the community,

現在她在經營免費的藥局， 在社區當志工，

she helps women cope with violence, she teaches.

她協助女性處理暴力，她也教書。

She told me, "I grew from this experience because I was angry.

她告訴我：「這段經歷讓我成長， 因為我那時很憤怒。

I was going to fight back against what he tried to do to me

他對我做出這種事，我的反擊方式

by making a difference in the world.

就是在世界上造成不同。

See, he didn't kill me.

要知道，他沒有殺了我。

My response to him is,

我對他的回應是：

'Whatever you meant to do to me, screw you, you're not going to do it.'"

『不論你本來打算對我做什麼， 去你的，你做不到的。』」

These weavers are not living an individualistic life,

這些編織者並沒有 過著個人主義的生活，

they're living a relationist life, they have a different set of values.

他們過著關係主義的生活， 他們有不同的價值觀。

They have moral motivations.

他們有道德上的動機。

They have vocational certitude, they have planted themselves down.

他們有職業上的確定， 他們已經讓自己紮根。

I met a guy in Youngstown, Ohio,

我在俄亥俄的揚斯敦見到一個人，

who just held up a sign in the town square,

他在鎮上廣場上舉著標語：

"Defend Youngstown."

「守衛揚斯敦」。

They have radical mutuality,

他們有很根本的相互關係，

and they are geniuses at relationship.

且他們是關係方面的天才。

There's a woman named Mary Gordon

有名女子叫做瑪莉·戈登，

who runs something called Roots of Empathy.

她在經營「同理心之根」。

And what they do is they take a bunch of kids, an eighth grade class,

他們做的事情是，他們找了 一個母親和一個嬰兒，

they put a mom and an infant,

讓他們到一個八年級的班上，

and then the students have to guess what the infant is thinking,

學生得要猜測嬰兒在想什麼，

用這種方式教導同理心。

to teach empathy.

There was one kid in a class who was bigger than the rest

班上有個孩子年紀特別大，

because he'd been held back, been through the foster care system,

因為他很壓抑，他進過寄養體制，

seen his mom get killed.

他看見他的母親被殺。

And he wanted to hold the baby.

他想要抱抱那個嬰兒。

And the mom was nervous because he looked big and scary.

母親很緊張，

因為這個孩子看起來高大嚇人。

But she let this kid, Darren, hold the baby.

但她讓這個孩子， 德倫，抱了她的嬰兒。

He held it, and he was great with it.

他抱著嬰兒，他做得很好。

He gave the baby back and started asking questions about parenthood.

他把孩子還給母親， 開始問關於當父母的問題。

And his final question was,

他的最後一個問題是：

"If nobody has ever loved you, do you think you can be a good father?"

「如果沒有人愛過你， 你有可能成為一個好父親嗎？」

And so what Roots of Empathy does

「同理心之根」做的是

is they reach down and they grab people out of the valley.

他們向下伸手， 把深谷中的人拉出來。

And that's what weavers are doing.

那就是編織者做的事。

Some of them switch jobs.

有些人換工作。

Some of them stay in their same jobs.

有些人留在同樣的工作。

But one thing is, they have an intensity to them.

但他們都有著同樣的熱枕。

I read this --

我讀過——

E.O. Wilson wrote a great book called "Naturalist," about his childhood.

E·O·威爾森寫的關於他的童年的 一本書叫《自然主義者》。

When he was seven, his parents were divorcing.

當他 7 嵗時，他的父母要離婚，

And they sent him to Paradise Beach in North Florida.

於是他們把他送到了 北佛羅里達的天堂海灘。

And he'd never seen the ocean before.

此前他從未見過大海，

And he'd never seen a jellyfish before.

也沒見過水母。

He wrote, "The creature was astonishing. It existed beyond my imagination."

他寫道：「這種生物令人驚嘆， 遠遠超出我的想像。」

He was sitting on the dock one day

有天，他坐在碼頭邊，

and he saw a stingray float beneath his feet.

看到一條刺魟從他脚下游過，

And at that moment, a naturalist was born in the awe and wonder.

那一刻在敬畏和驚嘆中， 一個自然主義者誕生了。

And he makes this observation:

他發現，

that when you're a child,

當你還是個孩子時，

you see animals at twice the size as you do as an adult.

你會把動物看成 大人眼中的兩倍之大。

And that has always impressed me,

這打動了我，

because what we want as kids is that moral intensity,

因爲我們所需的正是 孩子眼中的熱切道德感，

to be totally given ourselves over to something

讓我們完全臣服于某物，

and to find that level of vocation.

找到那種使命感。

And when you are around these weavers,

倘若身邊圍繞著這些「編織者」，

they see other people at twice the size as normal people.

就也會將別人看作兩倍大，

They see deeper into them.

更深入看人，

And what they see is joy.

看到喜悅。

On the first mountain of our life, when we're shooting for our career,

在人生的一座大山上， 也就是我們事業剛起步時，

we shoot for happiness.

我們追求幸福感，

And happiness is good, it's the expansion of self.

幸福感很好，是一種自我的擴張。

You win a victory,

你贏得了勝利，

you get a promotion, your team wins the Super Bowl,

你被晉升，支持的隊伍贏了超級盃，

you're happy.

你歡呼雀躍。

Joy is not the expansion of self, it's the dissolving of self.

但喜悅並非自我的擴張， 而是自我的溶解。

It's the moment when the skin barrier disappears between a mother and her child,

喜悅存於母親與孩子間， 再無肌膚之隔。

it's the moment when a naturalist feels just free in nature.

喜悅存在於自然主義者 在大自然中放飛自我的瞬間。

It's the moment where you're so lost in your work or a cause,

全心投入工作或某事時，

you have totally self-forgotten.

喜悅會在忘我時出現，

And joy is a better thing to aim for than happiness.

而追逐喜悅遠比追求幸福要好。

I collect passages of joy, of people when they lose it.

其中我最喜歡的是瑞迪·史密斯

One of my favorite is from Zadie Smith.

寫的一段話。

In 1999, she was in a London nightclub,

在 1999 年，她在倫敦的一家夜店，

looking for her friends, wondering where her handbag was.

一邊找她的朋友， 一邊想她把手提包放哪了。

And suddenly, as she writes,

她寫道，突然間，

"... a rail-thin man with enormous eyes reached across a sea of bodies

「……一個有著大眼睛的 精瘦的男人穿過人海

for my hand.

向我伸出手。

He kept asking me the same thing over and over, 'Are you feeling it?'

他一遍一遍的問我， 『你感受到了嗎？』

My ridiculous heels were killing me, I was terrified that I might die,

那一刻我正受著高跟鞋的折磨， 以及擔心著我的人身安全，

yet I felt simultaneously overwhelmed with delight

但同時我的内心充滿喜悅，

that 'Can I Kick It?' should happen to be playing

因為正好播放著 《Can I Kick it》這首歌，

on this precise moment in the history of the world

在世界歷史中的這一刻，

on the sound system,

在這家夜店的音響裡，

而後又切到了《Teen Spirit》這首歌。

and it was now morphing into 'Teen Spirit.'

I took the man's hand, the top of my head blew away,

我握住了那個男人的手， 完全被音樂所震懾，

we danced, we danced, we gave ourselves up to joy."

我們一起跳舞，跳著，無比快樂。」

And so what I'm trying to describe is two different life mindsets.

我嘗試描述兩種不同的心態。

The first mountain mindset, which is about individual happiness and career success.

第一種是登山心態， 關於個人的幸福和事業的成功。

And it's a good mindset, I have nothing against it.

我不反對這種好心態。

But we're in a national valley,

但我們的國家正處於低谷，

because we don't have the other mindset to balance it.

正因爲我們缺失了 另一種心態來平衡它，

We no longer feel good about ourselves as a people,

我們不再為自己感到高興，

we've lost our defining faith in our future,

我們失去了對未來的信念，

we don't see each other deeply, we don't treat each other as well.

我們不彼此深交，不再善待彼此。

And we need a lot of changes.

我們需要諸多改變。

We need an economic change and environmental change.

我們需要經濟改革和環境整治，

But we also need a cultural and relational revolution.

但同時也需要文化和關係上的革命，

We need to name the language of a recovered society.

我們需要修復這個社會的語言。

And to me, the weavers have found that language.

對於我來説「編織者」找到這語言。

My theory of social change is that society changes

我對社會改變的理論是

社會改變肇因於

when a small group of people find a better way to live,

一小群人找到更好的生活方式，

and the rest of us copy them.

而其餘的人效仿。

And these weavers have found a better way to live.

編織者找到更好的生活方式。

And you don't have to theorize about it.

你無需把它理論化。

They are out there as community builders all around the country.

這些編織者已經無處不在， 貢獻於我們的社區。

We just have to shift our lives a little,

只需稍微改變我們的生活，

so we can say, "I'm a weaver, we're a weaver."

我們就可以説：

「我是編織者，我們都是編織者。」

And if we do that,

這樣做將會填滿我們內心的空虛，

the hole inside ourselves gets filled,

but more important, the social unity gets repaired.

更重要的是社會將得以修補變好。

Thank you very much.

非常謝謝。

(Applause)

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