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作者：海归草 在 海归酒吧 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
请海龟翻译社翻译翻译,不然BBB小屁孩看不懂:
The Tyranny of Options
Somehow related to the decline of mass media and the rise of ipod isolationism is the phenomenon of the picky-picky culture, as described Monday by Libby Copeland. She reveals the ramifications in the realm of romance. [The Achenblog normally abjures alliteration; pardon the anomaly.] It's a wonderful piece full of great anecdotes and the underexploited journalistic resource known as real people. She pauses to pull back and capture the broader sociobioculturalogical picture:
"There is something peculiarly modern about this phenomenon, something aligned with our dark privilege of too much , this consumeriffic culture in which jeans and houses and breasts and ring tones are customizable. Consider it all: geographical dislocation, cities filled with singles, extended childhoods and postponed childbearing, speed-dating, the growing sense that the dating pool is as vast as the 454 men-seeking-women between the ages of 29 and 31 within five miles of your Zip code on Yahoo Personals.
"In a world of infinite possibilities, the notion of falling in love, of finding The One, seems itself like the taquito girl, small-town and old-fashioned. Once upon a time, The One would've lived in your village or another one like it. Now, she could be this sweet girl across from you at the dinner table, but she could also be someone you haven't yet met. What if there's another woman somewhere in the world, like this girl, but better? Someone who will snowboard with you, and doesn't do that strange throat-clearing thing?"
I can speak for the older members of this blog community when I say that, back in our day, we had arranged marriages, and they worked just fine.
I'd add to the option-maximizing forces the general rise of mobility, particularly in communications. It's hard for young people to believe, but before the invention of cell phones and Blackberries, we spent a lot of time wondering where the heck someone else was. Like, weren't we going to meet on this corner by the Burger King? Or did she think we were meeting at that other Burger King? Someone was always lost. Confusion was the baseline for human interaction. You had to try to imagine how the other party would think and react in a given situation. You'd conclude, "She'll give up after 30 minutes and go to What-a-Burger." It was exhausting. If you ever did finally catch up with someone, you'd be so spent from the process, you'd just give up and get married.
作者：海归草 在 海归酒吧 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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