We have a system, which you say it really-- The progressive tax system is very important but it's not conceptualized right.

我们有个制度，你们都觉得-,累进税制非常重要,但它被错误的概念化了。

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In other words, how can poetry in this view -how can literature be progressive?

文学怎么能,推动社会的进步呢？

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But if we now introduce some progressive memory, so--a progressive memory loss-- so that I know longer remember what I did 100,000 years earlier.

但是如果引入持续的记忆…,持续的记忆缺失-,我不记得,十万年前做过什么。

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But the reason is ultimately, Mill claims, a utilitarian reason once you consider the long-run interests of humankind, of all of us as progressive beings.

但穆勒称，这个原因根本上还是功利的,当你考虑到人类，长远发展的利益。

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And these people--this is kind of boring-- but these people were in government between 1830 and 1848, and King Louis-Philippe, who was chased from the throne in February of 1848, was seen as progressive, he was seen as the bourgeois monarch but he was perfectly noble.

这些人有点乏味,他们在1830年到1848年执政,国王是路易·菲利普,他在1848年二月被王室追捕,他被视为进取者,被视为资产阶级的君主,但他完全是个贵族

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If we had this sort of progressive all-radical alteration, not just minimal alteration, but radical alterations of my memory, my beliefs, my desires, my tastes.

如果我们持续经历剧烈变化，不只是最小的变化，而是自己的记忆，信仰，渴望，品味都发生剧烈变化。

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If we make--If we solve the problem of boredom setting in with progressive memory loss and radical personality changes, maybe boredom won't set in, but it's not anything that I especially want for myself.

如果用持续失忆,和剧烈人格变化来解决无聊的问题，也许不会产生无聊，但那不是我特别想做的事。

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