【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 e you feel like you climbed that mountain, right, orthat you befriended that death row inmate. But you didnamp。39。t. You havenamp。39。t doneanything. Listening is an important but insufficient step towards socialaction.
　　首先，故事能產(chǎn)生一種 「共同一致」的幻覺。 沒有其他東西能夠像 聽了奇幻故事一樣， 能帶給你更好的感覺了。 就彷佛是你自己征服了那座山，是的?；蛘呤悄愫鸵晃凰佬谭赋蔀榕笥?。 但是你并沒有真的去做。 你沒有完成任何事。 傾聽故事是很重要的一步， 但對于社會行動來說，仍然不足夠。
　　Secondly, I think often we are drawntowards characters and protagonists who are likable and human. And this makessense, of course, right? Because if you like someone, then you care about the inverse is also true. If you donamp。39。t like someone, then you donamp。39。t careabout them. And if you donamp。39。t care about them, you donamp。39。t have to see yourself ashaving a moral obligation to think about the circumstances that shaped theirlives.
　　第二，我認(rèn)為人們經(jīng)常會被 那些令人喜愛、具有人性化的 角色和主人公所吸引。 而且這也符合常理，是不是? 因為如果你喜歡他們，你自然就會關(guān)心他們。但反之亦然。如果你不喜歡他們，你自然也不會關(guān)心他們。如果你不關(guān)心他們，你自然也不會認(rèn)為 自己負(fù)有道義責(zé)任，去思考那些人周遭的生活環(huán)境。
　　I learned this lesson when I was 14 yearsold. I learned that actually, you donamp。39。t have to like someone to recognize theirwisdom, and you certainly donamp。39。t have to like someone to take a stand by theirside. So my bike was stolen while I was riding it which is possible if youamp。39。re riding slowlyenough, which I was.
　　我在 14 歲時學(xué)到了這一點。我學(xué)到的是，實際上你不一定要喜歡某個人，才能認(rèn)可他的智慧。 而且你也不需要喜歡某個人，才能和他站在同一陣線。我的腳踏車被偷了， 在我騎著它的的時候──這是可能的，如果你騎得夠慢， 我當(dāng)時就是這樣。
　　So one minute Iamp。39。m cutting across this fieldin the Nairobi neighborhood where I grew up, and itamp。39。s like a very bumpy path,and so when youamp。39。re riding a bike, you donamp。39。t want to be like, you know
　　就在我正要穿過一片田地的時候， 就在內(nèi)羅畢附近，我生長的地方， 因為路非常崎嶇不平， 所以當(dāng)你騎車時， 你不會想要......你知道的──
　　And so Iamp。39。m going like this, slowlypedaling, and all of a sudden, Iamp。39。m on the floor. Iamp。39。m on the ground, and I lookup, and thereamp。39。s this kid peddling away in the getaway vehicle, which is mybike, and heamp。39。s about 11 or 12 years old, and Iamp。39。m on the floor, and Iamp。39。m cryingbecause I saved a lot of money for that bike, and Iamp。39。m crying and I stand up andI start screaming. Instinct steps in, and I start screaming, amp。quot。Mwizi,mwizi!amp。quot。 which means amp。quot。thiefamp。quot。 in Swahili. And out of thewoodworks, all of these people e out and they start to give chase. This isAfrica, so mob justice in action. Right?
　　所以我就騎得很慢。 突然間，我摔倒在地上。 當(dāng)我躺在地上時，抬頭一看， 有個小孩正騎著車逃跑， 他騎著我的腳踏車。 他大概 11 或 12 歲， 我還倒在地上， 然后我大哭，因為我存了很久的錢 才買了這輛腳踏車，于是我一邊哭，一邊站起來大喊。 出于本能，我開始大喊： amp。quot。Mwizi, mwizi! amp。quot。 這在斯瓦希里語中代表「小偷」的意思。 這時候許多人從伐木場跑出來， 他們開始追趕。 這是在非洲，當(dāng)時暴民政治 正在興起。是吧?
　　And I round the corner, and theyamp。39。vecaptured him, theyamp。39。ve caught him. The suspect has been apprehended, and theymake him give me my bike back, and they also make him apologize. Again, youknow, typical African justice, right? And so they make him say sorry. And so westand there facing each other, and he looks at me, and he says sorry, but helooks at me with this unbridled fury. He