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There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before.
還有一些其他理由讓我們比過去更難獲得平靜。
One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers.
有些矛盾，因為擁有自己的事業是一件不錯的事，
Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their lifespan.
但同時人們也從未對自己的短暫一生有過這么高的期待。
We're told, from many sources, that anyone can achieve anything.
這個世界用許多方法告訴我們，我們無所不能。
We've done away with the caste system, we are now in a system where anyone can rise to any position they please.
我們不再受限于階級，而是只要靠著努力就能攀上我們想到的高度。
And it's a beautiful idea. Along with that is a kind of spirit of equality; we're all basically equal.
這是個美麗的理想。出于一種生而平等的精神，我們基本上是平等的。
There are no strictly defined hierarchies.
沒有任何明顯的階級存在。
There is one really big problem with this, and that problem is envy.
這造成了一個嚴重的問題，這個問題是嫉妒。
Envy, it's a real taboo to mention envy, but if there's one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy.
嫉妒在今日是一種禁忌話題，但這個社會上最普遍的感受，便是嫉妒。
And it's linked to the spirit of equality.
嫉妒來自生而平等的精神。
Let me explain. I think it would be very unusual for anyone here, or anyone watching, to be envious of the Queen of England.
這么說吧。我想在場的各位或是觀看這個影片的眾位，很少有人會嫉妒英國女皇。
Even though she is much richer than any of you are,
雖然她比我們都更加富有，
and she's got a very large house, the reason why we don't envy her is because she's too weird.
住在一個巨大的房子里，我們不會嫉妒她的原因是她太怪異了。
She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place.
她太怪了。我們無法想象自己與她扯上關系，她的語調令人發噱，來自一個奇怪的地方。
So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them.
我們與她毫無關聯，當你認為你與這個人毫無關聯時，你便不會嫉妒。
The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy,
越是兩個年齡、背景相近的人，越容易陷入嫉妒的苦海，
which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion,
所以千萬避免去參加同學會，
because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
因為沒有比同學更強烈的參照點了。
The problem of modern society is it turns the whole world into a school.
今日社會的問題是，它把全世界變成了一個學校。
Everybody's wearing jeans, everybody's the same. And yet, they're not.
每個人都穿著牛仔褲，每個人都一樣。但并非如此。
So there's a spirit of equality combined with deep inequality, which can make for a very stressful situation.
當生而平等的概念遇上現實中懸殊的不平等，巨大的壓力就出現了。
