Name: 6 歴史的二日酔いが現代人を不幸にする (6 Historical Hangovers Making Us Miserable Today)
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When trying to understand why we might be feeling unhappy, we tend to be drawn to reasons relatively close to home. It might have to do with friends, relationships, health, jobs, families or schedules. What we tend not to do, however, is to start talking about our place in history. It would sound overblown or just plain bizarre to begin to pin a sizeable share of our difficulties to broad historical forces. Yet whatever role our psyches and our families and colleagues might be playing in our moods, a proper understanding of our situation cannot be complete without consideration of the highly peculiar novel era in which we exist. We are troubled in part because we dwell in highly unbalanced times.

不幸だと感じる理由を理解しようとするとき、私たちは比較的身近な理由に惹かれがちだ。友人関係、人間関係、健康状態、仕事、家族、スケジュールなどだ。しかし、私たちがしない傾向にあるのは、歴史における自分の位置について話し始めることだ。私たちの困難のかなりの部分を歴史的な大勢力のせいにし始めるのは、大げさに聞こえるだろうし、単に奇妙に聞こえるだろう。しかし、私たちの精神や家族、同僚が私たちの気分にどのような役割を果たしているにせよ、私たちの置かれている状況を正しく理解するには、私たちが存在している極めて特殊な小

At the centre of all pre-modern societies were powers that helped to put humans in their place, older, bigger, stronger, holier phenomena, perhaps a god, a natural energy or a spirit.

すべての前近代社会の中心には、人間を自分の居場所に置くのに役立つ力、より年上で、より大きく、より強く、より神聖な現象、おそらく神、自然エネルギー、あるいは精霊があった。

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However important humans might have felt, however grand the aristocracy or urgent the news of the day, people knew that they were not the measure of all things, that above and beyond the earthly realm there was something else more mysterious, imposing and strange to which they would all regularly have to bow and which would relativise them in one another's eyes. The fanciest king was nothing next to a thunderous god, the mightiest invention pathetic next to an angry sea. But we humans are now the most astonishing things we can conceive of. It's our momentous doings, our intelligence, our incomprehensibly wondrous technologies that mesmerise us and are at the centre of collective consciousness. God has died and nature is to be pitied and patronised like a wounded, once proud animal. We have lost any redeeming sense of our own unimportance. We are at the same time, each one of us, told repeatedly that we could do and be anything. We might, with sufficient hard work, assume the presidency, unlock a major scientific secret or become known to the entire planet through our athletic or artistic prowess. We are also thereby subtly informed that only a very special destiny is valid. There is no dignity left in a so-called ordinary life.

どんなに人間が重要な存在だと感じていたとしても、どんなに壮大な貴族制度があったとしても、どんなにその日のニュースが急を告げていたとしても、人々は自分たちが万物の尺度ではないことを知っていた。最も立派な王も、雷鳴轟く神の前では無に等しく、最も強大な発明も、怒れる海の前では哀れなものだった。しかし、私たち人間は今、私たちが考えうる最も驚くべき存在である。私たちを魅了し、集合意識の中心にあるのは、私たちの重大な行動、知性、理解しがたいほど驚異的なテクノロジーなのだ。神は死に、自然は傷ついた、かつては誇り高き動物

There can be nothing to celebrate in an unheralded, unknown existence. We cannot live quietly and be in bed by nine. We must become someone or else look on with envy and rage at those who have evaded the perils of mediocrity. We used to know almost nothing of what happened beyond our own valley or shoreline. Life went by so slowly that we were often, without appreciating how much this kept us sane, a bit bored. No bloodshed, scandal, upset or peril can occur anywhere on the planet without us hearing of it in minutes and we are as a result in a state of continuous unrest and alarm, unable to set anything negative in context, unsure of how to evaluate our species, terrified to trust or speak to a stranger, constantly feeling that we are leading the wrong lives. We know everything except the less perceptible things that really matter. Our attention is drawn only to our discords, our spitefulness and our cruelty. We have been stripped of opportunities to contemplate older, slower currents, to draw inspiration from dawn, the murmurings of doves or robins or the barks of ancient trees that speak of time measured in centuries. We have been sold the idea that the one solution to our loneliness lies in romantic love. We therefore search with frantic abandon in the lonely, concrete canyons of our modern megalopolises for one very special being who can be everything to us, best friend, sexual partner, playmate, kindergarten teacher, cook, chauffeur and then, when inevitably we cannot find them, we perceive ourselves as having been uniquely cursed. We misunderstand the generality of the problem and miss the solace available in the less febrile and less prestigious realm of friendship. In distributing our needs more equitably among a whole community, none of whose members need to answer to the whole of anyone's longings, we have been rendered exceptionally lonely by the unwittingly cruel notion of a soulmate. We could, back then, stand away from our work and see something substantial and solid that we had made, a chair, some horseshoes, a house. We now occupy ourselves on tasks that have been infinitely subdivided and thereby lost much of their wider logic. We carry professional titles like logistics controller, automation specialist or human resource manager that show us up as minute cogs in endlessly complicated engines.

何の前触れもない、無名の存在には何も祝うべきものはない。私たちは静かに暮らし、9時にはベッドに入ることはできない。私たちは何者かにならなければならないし、そうでなければ、平凡の危険から逃れてきた人たちを羨望と怒りで見なければならない。かつて私たちは、自分の谷や海岸線の向こう側で何が起こっているのか、ほとんど何も知らなかった。人生はゆっくりと過ぎていき、そのことがどれほど私たちを正気に保ってくれるかを理解することなく、私たちはしばしば少し退屈していた。流血もスキャンダルも動揺も危機も、地球上のどこで起きても

We may be richer than ever, we struggle to see what difference we could possibly make to anyone else's life. All the while, we lose ourselves in temptations which our evolutionary past leaves us defenceless against. Because we were programmed to eat any sugary thing a rare blackberry or apricot that came our way, we now cannot resist the plethora of satanic confections on offer on every street corner. Because in our old villages we might have seen one or two fertile people a day, we now can't stop looking at ceaseless digital processions of the unclothed. We have no willpower to resist the pitiless delights of the modern world. It's hard to reverse any of the pressures we have been placed under. But even if we cannot, knowing that these exist helps us to locate with greater fairness the origins of many of our troubles. We are not uniquely or personally awful, frantic, greedy or degenerate.

私たちはかつてないほど豊かになったかもしれない。その間、私たちは進化の過程で無防備になった誘惑に負けてしまう。珍しいブラックベリーやアプリコットなど、甘いものなら何でも食べるようにプログラムされていた私たちは、今では街角で売られているおびただしい数の悪魔のお菓子に抗うことができない。昔の村では、1日に1人か2人の生殖能力のある人を見かけたかもしれないが、今は、服を着ていない人の絶え間ないデジタル行進を見るのを止めることができない。現代世界の無慈悲な歓喜に抗う意志力はない。私たちが置かれたプレッシャーを覆す

We are under historically exceptional pressures. To know ourselves properly is to honour how much of our madness does not belong simply to us.

私たちは歴史的に例外的なプレッシャーの中にいる。私たち自身を正しく知ることは、私たちの狂気がどれほど私たちだけのものでないかを知ることである。

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6 歴史的二日酔いが現代人を不幸にする (6 Historical Hangovers Making Us Miserable Today)

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