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And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art.
我去找他們聊聊西方藝術中最偉大的幾個悲劇故事。
I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories,
我想知道他們會如何露骨地以新聞的方式，
if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.
在周日下午的新聞臺上呈現這些經典悲劇故事。
I mentioned Othello; they'd not heard of it but were fascinated.
我談到他們從未耳聞的《奧賽羅》，他們嘖嘖稱奇。
I asked them to write a headline for the story.
我要求他們以奧賽羅的故事寫一句頭條。
They came up with "Love-Crazed Immigrant Kills Senator's Daughter." Splashed across the headline.
他們寫道，“移民因愛生恨，刺殺參議員之女”。大頭條。
I gave them the plotline of Madame Bovary. Again, a book they were enchanted to discover.
我告訴他們《包法利夫人》的故事，他們再一次感到驚異萬分。
And they wrote "Shopaholic Adulteress Swallows Arsenic After Credit Fraud."
他們寫道，“不倫購物狂信用欺詐，出墻婦女吞砒霜”。
And then my favorite -- they really do have a kind of genius of their own, these guys
我最喜歡的是，這些記者真的很有才，
my favorite is Sophocles' Oedipus the King: "Sex With Mum Was Blinding."
我最喜歡的是索?？死账沟摹抖淼移炙雇酢罚骸芭c母親的盲目性愛”。
In a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you've got the tabloid newspaper.
如果同理心的一個極端是這些八卦小報，
At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art.
另一個極端便是悲劇和悲劇藝術。
And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art.
我想說的是或許我們該從悲劇藝術中學習。
It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser. He is not a loser, though he has lost.
你不會說哈姆雷特是個失敗者，雖然他失敗了，他卻不是一個失敗者。
And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.
我想這就是悲劇所要告訴我們的，也是我認為非常重要的一點。
The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human.
現代社會讓我們焦慮的另一個緣故是，我們除了人類以外沒有其它重心。
We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves.
我們是從古至今的第一個無神社會，除了我們自己以外，我們不膜拜任何事物。
We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things.
我們對自己評價極高，為什么不呢。我們把人送上月球，達成了許多不可思議的事。
And so we tend to worship ourselves.
我們習慣崇拜自己。
