在泰坦尼克号上,马克麦奎尔,和爱

篇短文解决美国人民的关注与金钱,权力,英雄和我们自己的潜力转变。

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“如果世界是愈合通过人类的努力,我相信这将是普通人,那些对生活的爱甚至比他们的恐惧。人可以打开生命之网,叫我们,谁能在更大的身体的活力。”乔安娜。梅西

在交付给一篇论文哈佛大学环境价值研讨会1996年,天主教的环保主义者,托马斯•贝瑞写了强大的泰坦尼克。泰坦尼克号,一个技术奇迹,胜利,被认为是不会沉没的。发生在这个宏伟的船根据贝瑞作为我们时代的寓言。

虽然有几个警告发布有关的潜在危险冰山,泰坦尼克号继续飞驰在寒冷的水域。信任他的“无敌”船船长,船长的乘客投降负责他们的生活。当船沉没了,穷人遭受了最大的伤亡,尽管大量的富人死亡以及“下层阶级”。

今天我们乘船在巨大的太空船地球。它也被认为是(打个比方),“永不沉没的”。And while we've received countless warnings regarding the perils she confronts, we continue to entrust our governments with the authority and responsibility to successfully navigate around them. The technology that made the Titanic possible and yet could not prevent her destruction, is the very same that we collectively count on to save us now. And like the poor who were confined within the bottom decks of the Titanic, our own poor receive the least of our ship's bounty, and suffer the greatest discomfort. And yet in the end, no degree of wealth or status guaranteed salvation for the passengers of the Titanic, nor will it ultimately prevail on our own magnificent and yet vulnerable vessel.

就像泰坦尼克号的乘客仍在很大程度上无视他们的船面临的危险,我们的文明失败在很大程度上充分认识到破坏我们造成“太空船地球”,不仅有危险的地方我们的外在世界,但破坏我们的内心生活。

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在设计和工程泰坦尼克号打破记录,试图打破另一个纪录,她死亡。集体,我们多次打破记录,其中许多培养重要的骄傲。我们在无数方面显示了人类的光辉,和最好的意图,提高我们生活的质量。然而什么不祥的记录的破碎的在不到一百年的时间里?一代人已经设法破坏物种和生态系统比前几代在我们面前。

说到记录,马克麦奎尔,红雀队的一垒手,最近击败了世界纪录最垒棒球的历史。里克。斯坦格尔,高级编辑时间杂志,检查在一篇文章中写道微软全国有线广播电视公司为什么麦克维尔的“新闻报道比柏林墙的倒塌”。

斯坦格尔指出,麦奎尔代表存在在我们的集体无意识的原型英雄,约瑟夫·坎贝尔模式出发,后启动,并返回。首先,麦奎尔遭受到毁灭性的离婚和面临打击衰退可能会毁了他的职业生涯。接下来,麦奎尔进入心理面对他内心的魔鬼。最后,麦克维尔作品通过离婚的痛苦,建立一个更大级别的亲密和他的儿子,并成为历史上最伟大的单赛季本垒击球手。他的损失和救赎的故事在受伤的灵魂共鸣的美国国家领导人熊一个公共耻辱。我们总是喜欢故事的神奇已经无意识地渴望一个新的英雄。

有说我价值极大,“如果人们将领导,领导者只能跟随。”It wasn't the force of the United States government that essentially abolished slavery, established civil rights, or won the right to vote for women, it was the power of the American people. It wasn't the auto industry that initiated the manufacturing of smaller and more gas efficient cars, it was only responding to our demands for them. Many Americans became concerned about global warming and energy conservation long before the government and industry began to act. It was average citizens who defeated the nuclear power industry. An enormous amount has changed throughout the world in just a few short years, and many of the transformations we've witnessed were not led by world leaders, charismatic heroes, or great super powers -- they were propelled forward by everyday people not so unlike you and I.

我们也开始自己的英雄的旅程。我们努力解决我们昨天的伤害,并调和自己我们留下。我们每个人都经历了自己的独特的和个人的提升,和遇到自己的追求是我们走向个人命运。所以当我们喜欢泰坦尼克号和马克麦奎尔的奇妙的故事,让我们不要忘记胜利的巨大潜力和转换,流经我们每个人。

约翰加德纳写道,“一个文明上升到伟大的时候发生在人类的思想。”Just as history doesn't stand still but continually moves onward, we too continue to evolve into increasingly more powerful co-creators. And yet even as we actively create, we also remain in the process of becoming. Goethe observed that, "we are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Americans have been accused of being like materialistic sheep obsessed with consumption and status. While it has been our behavior that has so often defined us, and the outward trappings to which so many of us have become preoccupied, it's time I believe that we each looked inward, and ask ourselves what it is that we truly love. Once we have the answer to that question, then perhaps what occurs in the hearts, and minds, and souls of Americans will indeed lead our civilization to greatness, and our lives will collectively tell a story far more significant than the grandest epic.

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