好悪の感情と偏見(2)
我々は学校を卒業すると,我々の外国に関する知識は,お寒いことであるが,新聞（注：現代においては「マスコミ」）を通じてであり,新聞(注：現代で言えば,TVなどのマスコミ)が我々の外国に関する偏見を満足させない限り(偏見に迎合しない限り),我々はその新聞を買おう（注：TVを見よう）としない。その結果,我々の外国についての知識は,我々の偏見と感情を強めるようなものに限定される。これは,国際問題を正常に扱っていく上での最大の困難の一つである。自国優先主義の民主主義の制限内において,国際問題をどのように処理していったらよいか,私にはわからない。(注：つまり,もっと国際主義的な観点が必要だということ)。(出典： ラッセル『アメリカン・エッセイ集』の中の「我々は受動的過ぎるか？」
It is not only in regard to amusements that men have grown passive, but also in regard to all those forms of skill and all those departments of knowledge in which they are not themselves experts. The old-fashioned farmer was weather-wise, whereas the modern man, if he wishes to form an opinion as to what the weather is going to be, reads the official weather forecast. I have sometimes had the impression that he cannot even tell whether it is wet or fine at the moment without the help of his newspaper. Certainly it is from his newspaper that he derives his opinions on politics and the state of the world and the need of a return to the rugged virtues of a former age. On most matters he does not trouble to have opinions at all, since he is convinced that they can safely be left to those whose special study or experience entitles them to speak with authority.,
Source：Are we too passive? Feb. 3rd, 1932, in Mortals and Others；Bertrand Russell's American Essays 1931-1935, v.1, 1975.
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https://russell-j.com/PASSIVE.HTM
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