493 追忆历史学家亚当·麦基翁：华人移民与现代边境制度的形成

张磊_veKR:纯AI搬运 Chatgpt 5.6 sol： 这个书名不是单纯为了营造“忧郁气氛”，而是直接化用了卡夫卡《审判》中的一句话。 在“在法的门前”这则寓言中，神父对K说： 人们不必把一切都当作真实，只须把它当作必要。 K回答： “这是一个令人悲哀的结论。谎言因此被变成了一种普遍原则。” 卡夫卡的德语原文是： Trübselige Meinung … Die Lüge wird zur Weltordnung gemacht. 其中： trübselige Meinung＝令人沮丧、悲哀的看法； Weltordnung＝世界秩序。 McKeown本人明确说明，Melancholy Order就是从这段话借来的。 来源： COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Blog Press Interview with Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order June 9 2011 Q: Is that what you mean by a “melancholy order?” A.M.: “Melancholy order” is borrowed from the parable of the gatekeeper in Kafka’s The Trial. The priest who shared multiple interpretations the parable with the protagonist, K, concluded that “it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.” K responded that this was, “A melancholy conclusion. It turns lying into a universal principle.” Migration control is the last bastion of open discrimination in the modern world. It has its roots in the “self-evident” ideas of civilization, self-determination, and the rights of man but also in the equally self-evident facts of fear, self-protection, and xenophobia. Now, the need to further “manage” mobility by strengthening and refining discrimination is frequently justified in terms of simultaneously promoting human rights and national prosperity. But most of these reforms are reinforcements of precisely the ideals and policies of the past, policies that created the unsatisfactory situation we now feel needs to be improved. We may be firmly committed to many of the ideals that motivate immigration reform. But few of these ideals have provided a straight path to human emancipation, equal rights, or security. All of them have run up against their own contradictions. It only looks like a progressive path when we forget and create borders around certain portions of the past. In other words, we need to build institutions based on self-deception if we are to continue acting in support of our ideals.

Amator_:谦虚了

jrskyfly:哈哈，哥们你是在小红书上跟我讨论《大转型》的那位吧，我已经读完了，确实难读，要不是为了开读书会，我真读不完。

薄荷薄荷叶:跟我听《失败者的春秋》那期一样，听的时候感觉好有意思，一看书无语住了

天爱_:俺也一样！！！

如是我闻_B3MS:感谢

喵喵sunny:那也不是模式的问题😂

风色水影:在商言商，程老板不搞人设，踏踏实实做播客。能尽本分就很难了。

殊不方:二十世纪初欧洲人移民美国有船票就行，不存在什么自古以来的管控。你是中国历史看多了，中国是严管迁徙的

范德里希:欧洲人那叫殖民，不是移民。美洲是印第安人的美洲，印第安人从来没有允许欧洲人移民，所以欧洲人屠杀印第安人。

如是我闻_B3MS:英文不好，抱歉啊

如是我闻_B3MS:不敢当啊

如是我闻_B3MS:他的是科普作品