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很久之前我觉得如果理不清宏大的命题那应该做科研,知识不会骗你,做着做着总会想明白的 现在我想如果连自己是谁,处在何种境遇下都辨不清楚,又何以作为一个人做学问呢 搞不明白,头痛
「唯有绝望才能拯救我们。」
暂且相信这是黎明前的曙光。
暂且相信这是黎明前的曙光。
Forwarded from FickoCollection
…most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance…
——Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, 1995
「我担心,以后在重要的媒体中,实质性内容将逐渐衰落,30秒的片段会流行,节目只具有最低的共识,充斥着对伪科学和迷信的盲目介绍,尤其还有一种对无知的庆祝。」——卡尔·萨根,《魔鬼出没的世界》,1995年
长久的对于通信技术革命、互联网和人有限的注意力与理性之间关系的思考得出了一句老生常谈:人所做的事情应该与能力相匹配,所关注的事情的范围也应该与其能够有效注意的能力相匹配。
Today there are too many voices, too many media, too many histories, too many countries, ethnicities, genders, classes, too much to convey, too much to absorb or master or remember. Today we have lived through too much to not understand that the past is never fixed, quiet, its issues settled once and for all. We know that other explanations have been made and soon new ones will be made for what we once believed, or thought, or did, or hoped to do, or would have liked to do.This change does not only effect events in the past, but also those who feel their task is to preserve them: we historians.——Adventures of a Postmodern Historian: Living and Writing the Past
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