危险的永远不是人的思维方式,因为人性几千年来一直延续下去,甚至超越了文明的生命。危险的是少数人本着他们自己的人性,利用谎言欺骗了绝大多数人,从而享受着不平等不公正给他们带来的好处。思考一下为什么几十年前的美国和日本的记者、老百姓中居然会有人向往毛泽东时代的中国,甚至包括文革时期的中国。想想我们孩时的1980年代可曾有那么多女孩子梦想着做郭海藻?虽然那时也是有不平等的——这个世界上除了原始社会目前为止还没有出现过真正的平等社会——但至少绝大多数老百姓之间是平等的。我和我的同班同学不会因为家庭经济的差异出现相处的问题,对么?在思绪飘回1980年代的中国的同时,让我们一起聆听The Monkees的Shades of Gray
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%xLhZ\ V0mn4sfs By Barry Mann and Cyntha Weil
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Q"#J6@ Life was such a simple game,
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%W S+(0*1 4*;MJ[| It was easy then to tell right from wrong.
@H8EWTZ Easy then to tell weak from strong.
[:*)XeRK When a man should stand and fight,
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T)_hpt. HZZn'u I remember when the answers seemed so clear
J'r^/ We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear.
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r3?o9D> Selling out from compromise
B9S@(/"7 Who to love and who to hate,
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dPRra{ A=0'Ks But today there is no day or night
R4d=S4i Today there is no dark or light.
*LY8D<:zs Today there is no black or white,
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S+lqA-: f|(M.U- [Instumental interlude]
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9>#6*/Oa7 When to keep and when to share.
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