我们的社会正在变得越来越荒谬，越来越离谱，大众则变得越来越心浮气躁，粗俗鄙陋，拿什么来挽救这个时代？美国作家Janet Mendell Goldstein 敏锐的抓住了问题的核心，看到现代社会凸显出的三大问题：Now instead of later 不等将来，只求现在 Faster instead of slower不再缓慢，快快益善 Superficially instead of thoroughly不求透彻只求浅薄。 怎么解决，读一读这篇文章，你会找到答案。Quick Fix Society Janet Mendell Goldstein1. My husband and I just got back from a week's vacation in West Virginia. Of course, we couldn't wait to get there, so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a couple of interstates. "Look at those gorgeous farms!" my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph. "Did you see those cows?" But at 55 mph, it's difficult to see anything; the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. Getting there certainly didn't seem like half the fun; in fact, getting there wasn't any fun at all. 2. So, when it was time to return to our home outside of Philadelphia, I insisted that we take a different route. "Let's explore that countryside," I suggested. The two days it took us to make the return trip were filled with new experiences. We toured a Civil War battlefield and stood on the little hill that fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers had tried to take on another hot July afternoon, one hundred and twenty-five years ago, not knowing that half of them would get killed in the vain attempt. We drove slowly through main streets of sleepy Pennsylvania Dutch towns, slowing to twenty miles an hour so as not to...
