【文章标题】：What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools
【我们向往的是拥有太空时代工具的狩猎采集式生活】
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Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn’t find themselves frustrated at the abyss.
深信万物另有深意之人耗费光阴追寻却屡屡无果，而笃信万物本无意义者则在对深渊的凝视中陷入沮丧。
When you read books about a utopia without material demands on our time, the key aspect seems to be how nobody is particularly bereft, only mildly discontent. The utopia we envision in other words comprises our current world, just shorn of what we’d recognise as work.
当阅读描绘无需物质索求的乌托邦著作时，其核心特质似乎是无人真正匮乏，仅存轻微不满。换言之，我们憧憬的乌托邦恰是剥离了”工作”概念的当下世界。
But its more than that. Most of the annoyances with the modern world, especially in the more talkative online spheres, seems to stem from its seemingly inadequate efforts to affect the outcomes of us especially as our institutions are growing so much bigger than we can control.
但远不止于此。现代社会的多数烦恼——尤其在喧嚣的网络空间——似乎源于其影响个人命运的无力感，尤其当庞大机构已膨胀至超乎我们掌控之时。
When we look at the degrowth agendas that proliferate, they too seem to be nostalgic for a very specific version of the past. The visions are filled with communities of mutually loving people, the elimination of middlemen from transactions, where everyone knows the true you, the nonexistence of bureaucracy, the existence of a social good that’s identifiable by looking around. Essentially, the simple life.
审视盛行的”去增长”思潮，它们同样在缅怀某个特定的往昔图景：充满互爱群体、没有交易中间商、人人知你真貌、不存在官僚主义、举目可见社会公善——本质上，那是一种朴素生活。
Instead today we’re surrounded by alien structures, built by people we don’t know, working alongside those with whom you have a passing ephemeral relationship at best, stuck with an expertise that has little to do with savannah survival, doing a portion of a portion of a portion of the work to move the big wheel, detached from your relationships because of time constraints, and generally feeling as if you’re too smart to not notice an abyss but too stupid to find a way to cross it.
而今我们却被陌生架构包围——由素不相识者建造，与萍水相逢者共事，困守与草原生存毫无关联的专业技能，像齿轮般推动巨轮运转，因时间枷锁疏离人际关系，终日清醒察觉深渊存在却愚钝找不到跨越之径。
So we try to find our way to make peace with the things we had to do to get those space age tools, even as we dislike what we had to do to get them.
因此我们尝试与获取太空时代工具的代价和解，尽管厌恶这些必要之恶。
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We tried schooling people individually, sometimes collectively, occasionally communally, but had to resort to more industrialised methods as the numbers got larger. And in this expansion we also started disliking the fact that industrialised methods take away the individuality.
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我们尝试过个别教导、集体授课、社区教学，却在规模扩张中被迫转向工业化教育。这种扩张让我们开始憎恶工业化手段对个性的抹杀。
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We tried jobs out by apprenticeships, by walking into offices and finding your vocation, by starting working somewhere and proving your mettle, but as the numbers grew large enough we started to realise that maybe we needed better methods of selection, credentialling, and hoops to jump through.
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我们曾通过学徒制、自主求职、实干证明来获得工作，但规模膨胀迫使我们建立筛选机制、资格认证和晋升关卡。
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We tried governing through simple rules applied semi illegibly, which over time had to get more codified and better elaborated as societies themselves grew larger and more complex in their component activities; and the fight between wanton lawsuits and deterrence led us to the point where we need to elaborate exact instructions of how a child shouldn’t eat a plastic bag atop a sweet box.
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我们曾用模糊简规治理社会，但随着社会活动日益复杂，规则不得不精细化；滥诉与威慑的拉锯战甚至催生出”儿童不得吞食糖果盒上塑料袋”的精确条款。
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We tried curing diseases based on the patient and the background and the symptoms and the disease patterns themselves, to the point where with the large influx of patients necessitated rule based systems (spend only 15 mins with the patient, only do a blood test if they demonstrate specific symptoms) which make it worthless unless you’re at the middle of a (supposedly extant) bell curve.
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我们曾依据患者个体情况施治，直到病患激增迫使医疗系统标准化（限时15分钟问诊/特定症状才验血），使得非典型病例难以获得有效诊疗。
This is why we dislike rules so much. This is why we want to RETVRN.
这正是我们如此厌恶规则的原因。这正是我们渴望”回归”的根源。
Because we don’t want a life filled with rules and structures and globally defined procedural rules. We want to live in a hunter gatherer mode where we get to follow our curiosities and our ambitions and our vibes and our likes until it reaches the natural conclusion. Never mind perhaps that this might not exactly depict the way the hunter gatherers themselves lived, the point of the space age toolkit we have is to live as if that was the lifestyle.
因为我们不想要充满规则、架构与全球标准化流程的人生。我们渴望以狩猎采集者的模式生活——追随好奇心、抱负、直觉与喜好直至自然终局。即便这与真实的原始生活相去甚远，但拥有太空时代工具包的意义，正在于模拟这种生存状态。
But now that we’ve grown up a bit maybe we can treat some of those rules as the necessary evil that they are, not as immutable facts of the world. We can treat personalisation as a feature and not an affront. We can treat rules as suggestions of the right average behaviour and Schelling points and not as laws like gravity.
但既然已有所成长，或许我们能将某些规则视作必要之恶而非永恒真理。个性化是可选项而非冒犯，规则是行为基准与谢林点而非重力法则。
To return to that (maybe imagined) idyllic state isn’t a function of reversing time. We don’t need to give up everything we made in order to retvrn. We need to move forward with the new insight that what we created helps us understand a little bit more about what we might want, and use that knowledge to guide our next steps.
回归（或许想象的）田园牧歌不是时光倒流。我们无需放弃现有成就来”回归”，而应带着新认知前行：既有创造物帮我们更清晰认知所求，这份认知将指引未来步伐。
Whether its our increasing understanding of how tribes form, online and offline, or our affectations about how life should be lived, or the level of influence we want or tolerate from others in our society, or indeed what we owe to one another, these are to be answered moving forward.
无论是线上线下部落的形成机制、对理想生活的执着、愿接受的社会影响力，抑或是彼此间的责任义务，都将在前进中获得解答。
Whichever vision of the past glory that you’re most partial to, it stems from the yearning for a time when life used to be understandable, when proving oneself wasn’t a constant struggle, when you could just do the thing instead of proving you can do the thing, when the egregore of our society wasn’t tur…
无论你钟爱何种昔日荣光，其本质都是对某个时代的渴慕——那时生活尚可理解，证明自我非持久战，行动无需佐证能力，集体意识尚未…
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