MY DIGEST 1
Today I want to recommend a book called "The Closing of the American Mind".This book mainly argues about something on new generations and rises a series of responsibilities of universities .
The author of this book Allan Bloom (1930-1992),raised in a Jewish family .He moved to Chicago in 1944 with his family and attended University of Chicago in his 15,25 got the doctor degree of Social Thought.He has been teaching in Ivy League.And this book is the most impressive one of his works.
Now let's enjoy the wonderful sentences and specific ideas splited by the author.
I picked up some sentences to share
1.students these days are pleasant ,friendly and,if not greatsouled,at least not particularly mean-spirited.their primary preoccupation is themselves,understood in the narrowest sense...
（现在的学生随和友好，即便没有高尚的灵魂，至少算不上卑劣，他们主要关心的是自己，这是最狭隘意义上的自己……）
2.the affairs of daily life rarely involve concern for a lager community in such a way as to make the public and private merge in one's thought .It is not merely that one is free to paricipate or not participate,that there is no need to do so,but that everything militates against one's doing so.
（日常生活中发生的事情很少牵涉到对更多公众的关心，无法让个人在思想中讲公共事务和私人事物融为一体。这并不只是说人们有参与与不参与的自由，也不只是没有这样做得必要，而是每件事都妨碍着人们去这样做。）
3.this indeterminate or open-ended future and the lack of a binding past mean that the souls of young people are in a condtion like that of the first men in the state of nature-----spiritually unclad unconnected isolated with no inherited or unconditional connection with anything or anyone.They can be anything they want to be,but they have no particular reson to want to be anything in particular...There is no necessity ,no going in or turning away from any of these directions and there are desires pointing toward each,with mutually contradictory arguments to buttress them.Why are we surprised that such unfurnished persons should be preoccupied principally with themselves and with finding means to aviod permanent free fall?No wonders that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus's "The Stranger"
(未来充满了不定的因素，拥有开放的结局，历史丧失了约束力，这些都意味着年轻人的灵魂就像自然状态下得初民——精神世界一片空白，没有牵挂，孤立无援，与任何事与人之间不存在传承关心或是无条件的联系。他们可以想成为谁就成为谁，但是他们没有特别的理由，需要成为特定的某类人……没有必然，没有道德，没有社会压力，没有需要作的牺牲，没有什么能阻碍他们接近或是远离这一切。欲望指向了不同的方向，不同的方向都有同样矛盾的理由来支撑它们。为什么我们还要诧异这些缺乏寄托的人总是惦记着自我想要找到方法逃避永恒的自由坠落？学生们长期追捧的小说就是加缪的《陌生人》，这一点也不稀奇。
The author of this book Allan Bloom (1930-1992),raised in a Jewish family .He moved to Chicago in 1944 with his family and attended University of Chicago in his 15,25 got the doctor degree of Social Thought.He has been teaching in Ivy League.And this book is the most impressive one of his works.
Now let's enjoy the wonderful sentences and specific ideas splited by the author.
I picked up some sentences to share
1.students these days are pleasant ,friendly and,if not greatsouled,at least not particularly mean-spirited.their primary preoccupation is themselves,understood in the narrowest sense...
（现在的学生随和友好，即便没有高尚的灵魂，至少算不上卑劣，他们主要关心的是自己，这是最狭隘意义上的自己……）
2.the affairs of daily life rarely involve concern for a lager community in such a way as to make the public and private merge in one's thought .It is not merely that one is free to paricipate or not participate,that there is no need to do so,but that everything militates against one's doing so.
（日常生活中发生的事情很少牵涉到对更多公众的关心，无法让个人在思想中讲公共事务和私人事物融为一体。这并不只是说人们有参与与不参与的自由，也不只是没有这样做得必要，而是每件事都妨碍着人们去这样做。）
3.this indeterminate or open-ended future and the lack of a binding past mean that the souls of young people are in a condtion like that of the first men in the state of nature-----spiritually unclad unconnected isolated with no inherited or unconditional connection with anything or anyone.They can be anything they want to be,but they have no particular reson to want to be anything in particular...There is no necessity ,no going in or turning away from any of these directions and there are desires pointing toward each,with mutually contradictory arguments to buttress them.Why are we surprised that such unfurnished persons should be preoccupied principally with themselves and with finding means to aviod permanent free fall?No wonders that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus's "The Stranger"
(未来充满了不定的因素，拥有开放的结局，历史丧失了约束力，这些都意味着年轻人的灵魂就像自然状态下得初民——精神世界一片空白，没有牵挂，孤立无援，与任何事与人之间不存在传承关心或是无条件的联系。他们可以想成为谁就成为谁，但是他们没有特别的理由，需要成为特定的某类人……没有必然，没有道德，没有社会压力，没有需要作的牺牲，没有什么能阻碍他们接近或是远离这一切。欲望指向了不同的方向，不同的方向都有同样矛盾的理由来支撑它们。为什么我们还要诧异这些缺乏寄托的人总是惦记着自我想要找到方法逃避永恒的自由坠落？学生们长期追捧的小说就是加缪的《陌生人》，这一点也不稀奇。
