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What kind of world do we want? This is a fundamental question that most of us are asking.
到底我們需要怎么樣的世界？這是一個我們常常捫心自問的問題。
Does it make sense to participate in the existing world order?
這對已有世界秩序行得通嗎？
We want a world where life is preserved and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
我們需要一個珍重生命的世界，并且每人都能夠有豐富多彩的生活，而不僅僅是特權者的權力。
In January I saw an exhibit of Fernando Botero's paintings at the UC Berkeley library.
一月份我參觀了在柏克利大學的圖書館舉行的費爾南多·波特羅的繪畫展覽。
No museum or gallery in the United States, except for the New York gallery that carries Botero's work,
在美國除了紐約展覽廳，沒有博物館或展覽廳會展示波特羅的作品，
has dared to show the paintings because the theme is the Abu Ghraib prison.
他們沒有膽量展示這些繪畫，因為繪畫主題是關于阿布格萊布監獄。
They are huge paintings of torture and abuse of power, in the voluminous Botero style.
在浩繁的波特羅風格中，展覽有著大量的虐待和侮辱的繪畫。
I have not been able to get those images out of my mind or my heart.
我沒有辦法從我的腦海中或者心中得到這些圖象。
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
我最害怕的是不純潔的力量，我害怕力量的濫用以及力量所造成的暴力。
In our species, the alpha males define reality, and force the rest of the pack to accept that reality and follow the rules.
在我們的種族中，男人們定義現實，然后逼迫他人接受現實，遵守規則。
The rules change all the time, but they always benefit them,
規則常常發生變化，但總是對男性有益，
and in this case, the trickle-down effect, which does not work in economics, works perfectly.
就這樣，在一致遵循的狀況下，在經濟上并不成立的規則卻完美地存在。
