TED演讲:关于人性名利和爱(5)

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　　It was claimed on the net that he was the love child of our first child who was 15 years old. 结果网上居然说，那是我的大儿子的小孩，我的大儿子，他四年前只有15岁。

　　Apparently², he had sown his wild oats with a girl while driving her car in Romania. 网上居然说，是他在罗马尼亚和他的女友搞车震，播下的野种。

　　And yeah, there was a fake video to go with it. 而且啊还流出一段假视频。

　　And we were so disturbed as a family. 我们全家都不堪其扰。

　　My son, who is 19 now, even now when you say "hello" to him, 我的儿子，现在19岁了，现在就算你只是跟他打个招呼说“你好"，

　　he just turns around and says, "But bro, I didn't even have a European driving license³." 他都会马上说，“嘿伙计，我根本没有欧洲驾照。”

　　Yeah. In this new world, slowly, reality became virtual and virtual became real, 是啊。在这个崭新的世界里，慢慢地真假变得难以区分，

　　and I started to feel that I could not be who I wanted to be or say what I actually thought, 我开始觉得，我不能做我自己，我不能随便发表我的想法，

　　and humanity at this time completely identified with me. 而此时的人性就跟我一模一样。

　　I think both of us were going through our midlife crisis, and humanity, like me, was becoming an overexposed prima donna. 和我一起步入了中年危机，人性就像我，变成了一个整天被狗仔队追赶的主角。

　　I started to sell everything, from hair oil to diesel⁴ generators⁵. 我开始贩卖一切，从发油到柴油发电机。

　　Humanity was buying everything from crude oil to nuclear reactors⁶. 而人性开始收买一切，从原油到核反应堆。

　　You know, I even tried to get into a skintight superhero suit to reinvent myself. I must admit I failed miserably⁷. 你知道，为了重新塑身，我甚至还想过穿超人紧身衣，我必须承认我彻底失败了。

　　And just an aside I want to say on behalf of all the Batmen, Spider-Men and Supermen of the world, 在此打个岔，代表蝙蝠侠、蜘蛛人还有这个世界的超人们，

　　you have to commend them, because it really hurts in the crotch, that superhero suit. 请各位把掌声送给他们，因为穿超人装，胯下超疼。

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