The type of individual he tried to create, careful, self-interested, risk averse, this has become ? the dominant ethos of our civilization, has it not?

因为他笔下的个人主义，如强调个体利益，风险回避等,已经成为我们文明的主导精神，不是吗？

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It'd be actually much more valuable for you to know how to ; right?--if you're getting along in Western civilization; or how to use computers,or sexual technique, or how to speak other languages.

懂得如何修车,对吗，如果你要融入西方文明;,还要懂得如何使用电脑，性技巧，说一门或多门外语。

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What was Romulus' murder of Remus or Cain's murder of Abel, ? but the kind of murder that founded, at the basis of the founding of cities and civilizations?

罗慕洛斯谋杀双胞胎兄弟雷摩斯,或该隐弒杀亲弟埃布尔，不都是为了创建而为的谋杀吗,为了创建城市及人类文明？

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