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This is clearly not a good arrangement. We clearly need to change it.
這明顯不是個良好的形勢。我們明顯需要改變現狀。
We clearly need to find ways of encouraging countries to start working together a little bit better.
我們明顯需要找到一些方式以鼓勵國家之間可以共同合作得更好。
And why won't they do that? Why is it that our leaders still persist in looking inwards?
但他們為什么不這么做呢？為什么我們的領袖還堅持只看著自己呢？
Well, the first and most obvious reason is because that's what we ask them to do. That's what we tell them to do.
最主要和最明顯的理由就是因為那是我們要求他們這么做的。這是我們叫他們做的。
When we elect governments or when we tolerate unelected governments,
當我們選舉政府的時候或當我們容忍我們沒有選的政府的時候，
we're effectively telling them that what we want is for them to deliver us in our country a certain number of things.
我們就是在告訴他們我們想要的就是讓他們在我們的國家帶來一系列的舉措。
We want them to deliver prosperity, growth, competitiveness, transparency, justice and all of those things.
我們希望他們帶來繁榮、發展、競爭力、透明度、正義和所有這些事情。
So unless we start asking our governments to think outside a little bit,
所以除非我們要求政府看遠一點，
to consider the global problems that will finish us all if we don't start considering them,
考慮一下那些會毀滅我們的全球問題，如果我們不開始考慮這些事情的話，
then we can hardly blame them if what they carry on doing is looking inwards,
那么我們難以指責他們，如果他們繼續只是關注國家內部的話，
if they still have minds that microscope rather than minds that telescope.
如果他們依然只有顯微鏡的頭腦而沒有望遠鏡頭腦的話。
That's the first reason why things tend not to change.
這是第一個為什么事情很難改變的原因。
The second reason is that these governments, just like all the rest of us, are cultural psychopaths.
第二個原因是這些政府就像我們一樣，是文化精神變態。
I don't mean to be rude, but you know what a psychopath is.
我并非要無禮，但你知道精神變態是什么。
A psychopath is a person who, unfortunately for him or her, lacks the ability to really empathize with other human beings.
一個精神變態者對他/她來說很不幸的，是缺乏對其他人類真正的同情能力。
When they look around, they don't see other human beings with deep, rich, three-dimensional personal lives and aims and ambitions.
當他們四下環顧，他們看到的不是有深度的、內心豐富的、三維的人生以及夢想和雄心。
What they see is cardboard cutouts, and it's very sad and it's very lonely, and it's very rare, fortunately.
他們看到的是紙片人，這其實是非常可悲及孤獨的，但可幸的是這種情況很少見。
