I’m a social engineer, and I try to improve the world I live in.

我是一個社會工程師 致力於改善我生活的這個世界

A social engineer is one who concerns himself with

社會工程師是一位關懷社會現象

social phenomenon; what makes people the way they are.

及什麼東西塑造了人們自身的一種人

What are the conditions responsible for human behavior?

哪些條件得要為人類行為負責?

And how can society be rearranged

如何才能重新配置社會結構

to function with minimum pain and war?

來將痛苦和戰爭的程度降到最低?

Poverty, hunger, unemployment: how can we eliminate that?

貧困、飢餓、失業:我們怎樣才能消除這些?

This is what a social engineer tries to minimize.

這些是一位社會工程師試圖降到最低的東西

I did a lot of the groundwork to try to find out

我做了很多基礎工作 試圖找出

what it is that shapes human behavior.

是什麼塑造了人類行為

I try to remove the conditions that produce

我嘗試移除產生

serial killers, gangsters, thieves, murderers...

連環殺手、流氓、小偷、殺人犯等等的條件

I try to remove the conditions responsible

我嘗試移除造成這些

for human and aberrant behavior.

人類異常行為的條件

My partner is Roxanne Meadows.

我的合作夥伴是羅克珊·梅多斯

She works with me, and this is what we set out to build –

她跟我一起工作 我們的目標是在這裡

a research center here – to try to arrive at the best ways

建構一座研究中心 試著達到以最好的方式

for changing society, in the shortest time possible.

儘可能在最短的時間內改變社會

We try to build models of a city system, and try to modify it,

我們嘗試建立一個城市系統的模型 並試圖修改它

and bring it down and simplify it,

並落實及簡化它

so that it can be built all over the world.

這樣它便可以在世界各地建構

And we try to work out systems and communication

我們試圖制定出系統和通訊

for changing people in the shortest possible time;

在儘可能最短的時間內改變人們

changing their mental set, and their values.

改變他們處理事務的觀念和價值觀

The Venus Project is a method of attaining sustainability

維納斯計劃正是實現永續發展的方法

for all people by giving them pointers such as:

作為所有人的指針 像是:

We must declare the Earth as the common heritage

我們必須聲明地球是全人類

of all the world’s people.

共同的遺產傳承

We must remove all the artificial boundaries that separate people.

我們必須除去所有將人們分化的人為界限

We must make things available to people without money.

我們必須提供人們資源而不需使用金錢

We must eliminate social elitism, technical or otherwise.

我們必須消除社會、技術或其它形式的菁英主義

So I said “Let’s take care of everybody,”

於是我主張:「讓我們照顧到每個人」

the inventors, the designers, the engineers,

發明家、設計師、工程師

and the people themselves. Make things available to them,

和人們本身 讓所有物資都能供給所需的人

and that will change their behavior.

這就會改變他們的行為

We’re working in the wrong direction,

我們在錯誤的方向努力

and all over the world societies are collapsing,

而世界各地的社會正在崩潰

going bankrupt, not able to work things out,

破產、無法解決問題!

because they use political methods,

因為他們用政治的方法

which was good as I said a hundred years ago,

我認為一百年以前 這是好方法

but they do not work today.

但今天已經不管用了

So they’re failing all over the world.

所以在世界各地 現在都失效了

The people have to lose their homes, their jobs,

人們不得不失去他們的家園、工作

then they have to lose confidence in the people they elected.

那麼他們也不得不失去他們對於當選人的信心

Once that happens, they are open to new ideas.

一旦出現這種情況 他們就會開放新思路

“Oh, you’ll never see that, not in a thousand years.

「哦 你永遠也看不到了 大概要等一千年

You’re a dreamer, you’re a utopian!

你是個夢想家 你是一個烏托邦主義者!

You’re a goddamn communist!” Or you’re this or that.

你是一個該死的共產主義者!」 或者你是這個、那個

I believe all things change.

我相信所有的事情都會變化

Utopia is an impossible concept.

烏托邦是一個不可能的概念

It assumes that you can design a city that’s good for all time.

這概念是假定你能設計一個經得起時間考驗的城市

You can’t do that. Everything changes.

但你不能做到這一點 因為一切都在變化

That’s the only constant in nature, and that’s change.

自然界中唯一不變的東西 就是變化

I don’t believe that the cities of the future will be fixed.

我不相信未來的城市是固定不變的

They will undergo changes continuously.

它們會不斷經歷變化

I do not believe there are any final frontiers.

我不相信有任何「最終邊界」

I believe that men and women will continue to invent

我認為男人們和女人們將不斷創造

newer and better systems, and there’s no limit to what humans can do.

更新及更好的系統 而且也沒有東西能限制人類能做到的事

The pain of watching the way the world is moving,

看著這世界現今的發展

and the directions of war, and human suffering,

朝戰爭的方向邁進 還有人類的苦難

and the loss of lives, and the destroying of cities,

生命的損失 和城市毀滅的痛苦

all of that motivates me

這一切促使我

to try to do a better job than what politicians

嘗試做得比政治人物的作為更好

are trying to accomplish without knowledge.

他們試著達成目標 但卻沒有知識

If enough people work at what I talk about,

如果有足夠多的人來做我所說的工作

I believe we can change the world. If they do nothing

我相信我們可以改變世界 但如果他們什麼都不做

nothing will happen.

什麼都不會發生

I can’t accept the world as it is today,

我不能接受當今的世界

so I do everything I can to build a world of sustainability,

所以我盡我所能來建構一個永續發展的世界

for all people - not any single nation.

為了所有的人 而非任何一個國家

I don’t hope to gain anything, I just hope to do the best I can,

我不希望獲得什麼 我只是希望做到最好

and whatever happens, happens.

最後不管發生了什麼 就發生吧

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