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Even the citizens of our fellow democracies see us as morally bankrupt Question: How did things go so badly wrong?
即使我们民主联盟国家的公民,都觉得我们已经道德沦丧,问您一个问题，为什么事情会发展成这样？
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So it was good. I kind of got to know my own heritage and my own land.
所以去伦敦上学很好。我可以了解我们的祖先和国家。
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Because the U.S. is an arguably very successful country, so we have, potentially, a bias in--it's called a selection bias.
因为毫无疑问美国是个很成功的国家,因此我们的潜意识中,存在选择性偏差
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But we need to add in homeland security event so let's find the event for Friday of the following week.
但我们要加入国家安全的时间,那么我们可以安排到,下星期五。
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That's going to lead us very nicely into an understanding of the laws that mark off Israel's status and keep Israel distinct among the nations, which we'll be looking at on Wednesday.
这将很好的帮助我们理解,将以色列与其他国家区分开的那些法律，周四我们将讲到这个内容。
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There's a lot of frying going on at this particular place and this is something that's not typical of ancestral human diets.
在这个国家,有很多油炸食品,这不是我们祖先的日常饮食
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So we have this pulse, and it's just kind of out there streaming, but we don't like undifferentiated, disorganized material in the West.
我们拥有这种律动,而且就像泉水一样流淌出来,但在西方国家我们不喜欢,没有差别的,杂乱无章的素材
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We seek it; we have declarations-- national declarations, individual declarations of how important it is for us.
我们寻找它，我们有宣言-,国家宣言，关于快乐对我们多么重要的个人宣言。
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But Hobbes lived at a time when the modern system of European states even as we understand them today, was just beginning to emerge.
霍布斯生活在一个时代,这个时代中，现代欧洲国家,就像我们今天理解的这样，已经快要出现了。
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Now, let me think about that; let's think out loud about that other statement.
现在,让我们想想,让我们仔细思考一下其他国家的情况
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So, people like Hobbes thought, "Well, we need a really strong state."
同意霍布斯观点的人认为,"我们需要一个十分强大的国家"
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We are the oddballs in the history of the human race, and anybody who follows our pattern, and it's important to realize that because there's nothing inevitable about the development that has come about to be characteristic of the world.
我们美国人,以及其他与我们采用同一政体的国家,是人类历史中的异类,明白这一点很重要,因为这个世界发展的规律就是,没有什么是必然的
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Of course, because people my age are more free than people who are older in my country.
当然，因为在我们国家，像我这么大的人比年纪大一些的人更自由。
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This is someone who is supposed to be a moral leader of our country.
这可是应该成为,我们国家道德领袖的人。
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We think a lot about weight in this country, but weight is a remarkably carefully controlled parameter of a person, that is, you have to work pretty hard to gain weight or to lose weight.
我们身在一个特别关注体重的国家,然而体重是一个,需要小心地控制地人体指标,这就是说,你必须付出相当多的努力,才能增加或减少体重
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and we help businesses that are doing business in other countries get insurance in those countries, so.
我们帮助在外国经营的公司在那些国家得到保险，就这样。
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and realize that they are a part of the community and really help build our government.
应该意识到移民是这个国家的一部分，我们能够帮助国家政府。
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we actually need to look at very fundamental laws and policies in this country
我们实际上必须考虑这个国家最基本的法律和政策，
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we also like to think of ourselves as a bit outside of the European Union.
我们还是比较喜欢把自己当作欧盟外的国家。
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and that we could make even better with all of these different perspectives
而且，我们会让这个国家更美好的，通过融合各种不同的观点，
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And the only way we're going actually achieve what we need to achieve is to work with other nations.
我们唯一能,达成心愿的方法,就是与其他国家合作。
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Back in 1988, when we started this study, we asked realtors around the country, what is the hottest market in the United States?
回溯到1988年,那时我们刚开始这项研究,我们问遍了整个国家的房产中介,在美国最炙手可热的市场是哪里
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Hobbes provided us with the definitive language in which even today we continue to speak about the modern state.
霍布斯提供了一种权威性的概念,而直到今天,我们依然用它来描述现代国家。
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In the more advanced countries, there is more trust in the securities markets, so we don't need this relationship banking as much.
在更加发达的国家中,证券市场拥有更高的信誉,所以我们不需要如此依赖银行
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That we should disregard what other nations think and stand for what they think is right.
认为我们不用考虑其他国家的想法,一意孤行。
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Another little pop quiz here, and these aren't trick questions necessarily, but if you had to guess what the bigger problem was in the developing world, so let's not just say outside the U.S.
我们再做一个小测试,这不是什么难题,你们猜猜,发展中国家面临最大的问题是什么,我们所说的不是美国以外的国家
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Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.
我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受
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The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.
我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。
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Instead of having a central bank we decided that there would be a list of banks called the National Banks.
与拥有一个中央银行不同的是,我们决定将很多银行归到,国家银行的行列中。
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And then this country has to work with many other nations and listen to them, not apologize, not gravel.
然后我们需要,与其他国家合作,听取他们的建议，不用道歉，不用困惑。
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