美文欣賞：不要生活在幻覺中，清醒一點(diǎn)

And now we come to the most alarming delusion of all.

現(xiàn)在，我們要講所有幻覺中最需要防范的一種。

The idea that other people don't matter. Their feelings. Their needs.

這種幻覺就是：覺得其他人都不重要，他們的感受、他們的需求都不重要。

Imagine a cave where those inside never see the ourside world.

來想象一個(gè)洞穴吧，這里面的人從來沒有見過外面的世界。

Instead, they see shadows of their world projected on a wall.

他們看見的只有投射在墻上的影子。

The world they see in the shadows is not the real world. But it's real to them.

他們?cè)谟白又锌吹降哪莻€(gè)世界當(dāng)然不是真實(shí)的世界，但他們就認(rèn)為這是真的。

If you were to show them the world as it actually is, they would reject it as incompreshensible .

而如果你把真實(shí)的世界展示給他們看，他們反而會(huì)抵制它，因?yàn)樗麄兝斫獠涣诉@個(gè)世界。

Now what if, instead of being in a cave, you were out in the world, except you couldn't see it.

那么現(xiàn)在，如果你不是住在一個(gè)洞穴里，而是住在真實(shí)的世界里，只是你看不見這個(gè)世界呢?

Because you weren't looking. You were only looking at what the media has shown you.

你看不見它，因?yàn)槟悴]有在看它，你只是在看媒體呈現(xiàn)給你的東西。

You trusted that the world you saw through the prison was the real world.

你堅(jiān)信你從這個(gè)牢籠中看到的世界就是真實(shí)的世界。

But there's a difference.

不過剛剛舉的這兩個(gè)例子是有區(qū)別的。

You see. Unlike the allegory of the cave where the people are real and the shadows are false, here other people are the shadows.

你看，在那個(gè)寓言里面，人是真實(shí)的而影子是虛假的;但在這個(gè)世界里，其他的人就是那些影子。

This is the delusion of the narcissists who believe that they alone are real, that their feelings are the only feelings that matter because other people are just shadows.

這就是那些自戀者的幻覺，他們認(rèn)為這個(gè)世界上只有他們才是真實(shí)的，他們認(rèn)為只有他們自己的感受是算數(shù)的，因?yàn)槠渌硕贾皇怯白印?/p>

And shadows don't feel, because they are not real.

而影子是不會(huì)有感受的，因?yàn)樗麄儾皇钦娴摹?/p>

But what if everyone lived in caves. Than no one would be real, not even you, unless you woke up one day and left the cave.

但如果所有人都是住在自己的洞窟里呢?那么就沒有人是真實(shí)的了，連你自己都不是，除非你有一天突然醒悟然后離開這個(gè)洞窟。

And then, how strange would the world look after a lifetime of staring at shadows.

這時(shí)候你才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，這個(gè)世界是如此的奇怪;畢竟，你至今為止都不過是在盯著影子看而已。