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(回答先: こういうことも原因のひとつではないだろうか 投稿者 Sun Shine 日時 2007 年 5 月 21 日 07:48:21)
世界は今や３次元に生きている人達と１次元に生きている人達の２つのグループに分けられるかもしれない。特にアメリカではその傾向が強い。
富裕層には過去、現在、未来があるが、貧困層には現在しかない。
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55779
The destruction of America's working class
Posted: May 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Ronald F. Maxwell
I sometimes think the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who live in three dimensions and those who live in one. Those who live in three dimensions live simultaneously in the past, in the present and in the future. And when you live in three dimensions at the same time, you realize, as Edmund Burke once said, that those of us who live in the present, at any given time, are the trustees of the past, during our lifetime, to hand it over to the next generation, so that the dead and the unborn are as much a part of life as we are in the minuscule amount of years we have to inhabit this earth.
When we are aware of the past, it means we respect the past, respect our parents, our grandparents, our great grandparents and the generations all the way back to the beginning of recorded history. It means we read with exhilaration the historical works of Thucydides, or the artistic works of Aristophanes and Sophocles, reaching back over the millennia – which informs us, makes us who and what we are, enlivens us and broadens our small world into a world of infinite space, an infinite space of thinking, of contemplation and of realizing our kinship with the many generations that have gone before us.
It means as well that we cherish the place where we grew up and we regard, as you may recall from the opening credits of "Gods and Generals," astronomy as belonging to that little lot of stars that we see hanging over our backyards every night – if we are fortunate enough to live in a place that is not dulled by light pollution all night long. It means that we cherish that homeland, that home place, where we first realized there was such a thing as trees and grass and wilderness and wildlife, open sky. We all started off our lives in a place. We are connected to those places; we are rooted to those places. They are what make us who we are. It is what we call home.
Then, of course, there are those who live only in the present. Now we are moving through the present, and along this road, if we are not aware of the other dimensions, if we do not know the past or know it but disregard it, or disrespect it – then its easy to pave over a Civil War battlefield in Chancellorsville or to tear down the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. It's easy if we're the Taliban to blow up the world heritage Bhamian Buddhist statues in Afghanistan because none of that matters to us in our grand egoism. In our instant of life in the long spectrum of life, we are the masters of the universe, at that moment, and we don't care what happens to the next generation. We don't care if all the forests are turned into pulp. We don't care if all the open spaces are paved over. We don't care if there are no species left on the planet but human beings and cockroaches. What does it matter? As long as we achieve the only thing that is important for the present tense
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