拯救人类/赖长明(赵金基译）

程思良

拯救人类/赖长明
　　
　　公元3000年，世界上有了500多个国家。
　　世界格局发生了翻天覆地的变化，全世界五分之三以上的国与国在争斗，他们为土地、能源、权势等等问题时有军事冲突。
　　整个世界没一块宁静的土地。
　　联合国秘书长每天都在开会，做沟通，每天都在给各国元首打电话，做调解。然而，没有哪个国家愿意妥协，谁都在说自己有理，谁都在指责对方。形势越来越严峻，世界大战随时都可能爆发。
　　联合国秘书长很清楚，一旦战争打响，除了先进的核武器，各种生物武器必然粉墨登场，对人类乃至整个地球将是毁灭性的。
　　面对如此形势，联合国秘书长茶饭不思，寝食难安。
　　最后他想到了上帝，决定向上帝求援，上帝摇摇头说，来不及了，人类太聪明了。秘书长说，上帝啊，您创造了天与地，人与物，整个世界您是主宰，拯救人类只能靠您了。我？上帝气愤地说，我能主宰人类吗，现在谁还把我上帝放在眼里啊。秘书长说，请您老不要生气，以大局为重，不计个人得失，拯救人类。上帝想了想说，那好吧，让每个人都变成傻子。秘书长说，那怎么可能？上帝说，一切皆有可能，你自己想办法吧。说完飘然而去。
　　于是秘书长的新问题来了：怎样让全世界的人都变成傻子。
　　
　　Men’s Redemption
　　
　　By Lai Changming
　　
　　In the year 3000 A.D. there have been more than 500 nations on Earth.
　　Tremendous changes have been taking place in the global situation, in which over three fifths of all nations are involved in frequent disputes or military frictions on such issues as lands, energies, powers, and the rest.
　　There is no world peace at all.
　　Every day sees the secretary-general of UN busily holding conferences, communicating messages, or phoning the ruler of each nation, making mediations; yet no nation is to compromise, each defending for its own interests and putting blames on others. The condition is deteriorating. World War tends to break out any time.
　　The secretary-general of UN is quite aware that the potential war, in which advanced nuclear weapons as well as various bio-chemical weapons are sure to work, would be devastating to the entire earth and all men alike.
　　Turning over the situation, the secretary-general of UN can’t eat well or sleep well.
　　Finally it occurs to him that God must hold the key, so the secretary-general appeals to God. “It’s too late; men are too smart.” said God, shaking his head. “Almighty God, you created Heaven and Earth, men and things; lord of the whole world, you are to rescure us.” prays the secretary-general. “Me?” said God, annoyed. “Am I the lord of men? Does any man show a damn of respect for me?” “Easy does it, please. Considering the overall situation, please forget about your own gains and lossses. Men’s redemption is in your hand.” Thinking for a while, God says, “All right, then. Do make all men be idiots.” “How is it possible?” says the secretary-general. “Impossible is nothing; just think it for yourself.” With this God departs.
　　So the secretary-general is being presented with a new problem: how he is to make all men on Earth be idiots.
　　

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