Name: 【TED】劉強東：為什麼普通人需要理解權力（Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power）。 (【TED】Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power (Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:24:19.000Z
Duration: 17 min 20 s

I'm a teacher and a practitioner of civics in America.

我是在美國教公民教育的老師，也是公民教育的實踐者。 

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Now, I will kindly ask those of you who have just fallen asleep to please wake up. 

現在，請那些剛才睡著的人打起精神。（笑聲） 

Why is it that the very word "civics" has such a soporific,  even a narcoleptic effect has such a soporific,  even a narcoleptic effect

為什麼人們一聽到「公民教育」這個名詞就昏昏欲睡， 甚至如患了發作性睡眠病一般？ 

I think it's because the very word signifies something exceedingly virtuous,  exceedingly important, and exceedingly boring.

我想是因為這個名詞象徵著非常崇高的道德，非常重要， 和相當無聊。 

Well, I think it's the responsibility of people like us, people who show up for gatherings like this in person or online, in any way we can,

我認為，我們大家，來到這種聚會的人們， 以及在網上觀看的人，有責任以力所能及的任何方式， 

to make civics sexy again, as sexy as it was during the American Revolution, as sexy as it was during the Civil Rights Movement.

讓公民教育再度煥發生機，如美國革命時, 或如美國民權運動時期那樣生機勃勃。 

And I believe the way we make civics sexy again is to make explicitly about the teaching of power.

我相信讓公民教育再度煥發生機的途徑是明確的落實於關於權力的教育。 

這就是今天我想跟大家談論的主题。

and I want to start by defining some terms

and then suggest the ways that I believe cities

那麼，我們由一些定義開始吧。

of being a pro-social, problem-solving contributor

是在一個自主管轄的社區，作為一名關愛社會、

幫忙解決問題的貢獻者的藝術。

公民教育是身為一個公民的藝術，

an understanding of the systems that make the world go round,

對於讓世界正常運轉的體系的理解、

並讓他人跟隨你的願景的技能。

And that brings me to my definition of power,

We find it scary. We find it somehow evil.

我們覺得這個名詞可怕，而且有些邪惡。

連去定義它，都會讓我們感覺不自在。

In the culture and mythology of democracy,

而且它本質上就有些權謀術的味道，

But in fact power is no more inherently good or evil

事實上，權力在本質上不分好壞對錯，

就像自然界的火、物理原理那樣，

不管是民主的政府，或獨裁的政府。

And the problem we face today, here in America in particular,

我們今天面臨的問題，在美國尤甚，

is that far too many people  are profoundly illiterate

對於權力是什麼，誰擁有權力，

what part of it is visible,  what part of it is not,

權力的哪部分為人所知，哪部分鮮為人知，

why some people have it,  why that's compounded.

為何有些人擁有權力，為何權力總是交錯繁雜。

權力是如何在公民生活中運作的人，

如何讓一個法案變成一個法律條文，

but also how a friendship  becomes a subsidy,

如何讓一個偏見變成一項政策，

或如何讓一個口號發展成一場運動的人，

to fill the vacuum created by the ignorance

This is why it is so fundamental for us right now

One of the things that is so profoundly exciting

is that as a result of this power illiteracy

那就是由於這種對權力一無所知的狀態，

of knowledge, of understanding, of clout.

when a senior government official decides

to leave government and become a lobbyist

辭掉政府的工作，成為一名私有企業的說客，

and convert his or her relationships into capital

became over time a bureaucratic numbers game.

Virally, in the way that the Tea Party, for instance,

was able to take the "Don't Tread on Me" flag

「不要踐踏我」的旗幟的茶黨身上。

a band of activists could take a magazine headline,

一群激進分子從刊在雜誌上的頭條，

and turn that into a global meme and movement.

【TED】劉強東：為什麼普通人需要理解權力（Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power）。 (【TED】Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power (Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power))

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【TED】劉強東：為什麼普通人需要理解權力（Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power）。 (【TED】Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power (Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power))

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