周黎明：忠于现实才是大智慧[1]_其他

周黎明：忠于现实才是大智慧[1]

Other than ignorance, the tendency to see a place as either pure good or pure bad is rooted in a stubborn inability to absorb the complexities of the real world. The world does not abide by either-or rules. Even a simple thing like littering has a full gamut of variations. Coupled with other factors, it may have so many dimensions as to dwarf the imagination of the creators of the theoretical physics-based movie Interstellar. We tend to simplify matters by winnowing less significant details from the discussion. But we should remind ourselves that the golden nuggets of wisdom are distilled from real-life experiences that are often messy and hard to grasp.

除了无知，这些人看待一个地方不是好就是坏，这种倾向源于他们缺乏观察真实世界复杂性的能力。这个世界并不是非黑即白的。即使是像丢垃圾这样简单的事情也会有各种各样的变化。与其他因素结合起来，它可能有如此多个维度，以致于 Last year, I staged a play I had written earlier, titled The Ring Road, part of which was based on what I know personally. It features a Chinese couple who live in Silicon Valley. The husband wants to come back to China, listing all the things he finds unbearable stateside, like the glass ceiling for Asians and pure boredom for the middle class, and the wife counters with a litany of objectionable phenomena in China, such as pollution and the unremitting competition in Chinese schools.