#村长听写# May 13 2026 [第5312次]
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Americans really perfected the genre of how to build a perfect life, and it started out with religious beliefs around the power of the mind. This is like the beginning of positive thinking. The belief was that the mind was a powerhouse. Whatever you put out will then come back to you. The American belief in unlimited upward mobility, that life is if anything supposed to go up, really takes shape in the late 19th century. Fundamentally, this is a story about how culturally Americans adapted to city life. There is something about being very close to inequality, the very rich and the very poor blocks away from each other, that prompts an existential question: Why them? Why not me? Americans developed this genre in self-help about how to address that inequality with stories of self-making, and to explain away luck. Self-help is one of the great American contributions to literature as a formulaic set of practices and principles that people can use to try to improve their lives. But what people don't often realize is that self-help isn't just applied wisdom. It's based on a set of philosophical and religious presuppositions about what humans ought to be able to do. Why do you need luck if you have a set of steps and tools to minimize economic inequality, social inequality, and all the things that make us deeply unequal? 完整文本和翻译在听写群内分享 http://t.cn/AXicICrj