PBS高端访谈:社群的力量（在线收听）

JUDY WOODRUFF: We close now with a look at some good news. It comes from Roger Rosenblatt. He was in years past a longtime essayist for the NewsHour. And, tonight, he offers his Humble Opinion on how a community can come together for a common cause.

ROGER ROSENBLATT, Writer: Amid the usual, the too usual, the wanton shootings, the terrorist attacks, the racist politicians, the bullying of women, the predators, in the middle of all that, there is news of this. In Newton, Massachusetts, a neighborhood rallies round a 2-year-old deaf girl. Feeling deserted and alone, she cannot communicate with the world around her. So the world around her hires a teacher and learns sign language. Now, every morning, the people on her street speak in signs, and greet their little neighbor, who laughs and calls them friend. The shock of tenderness out of the blue, the shock of human tenderness, no less amazing than the stories of death, destruction, savagery and crime. But why are we surprised at our surprise? Have we grown so accustomed to think the worst of experience constitutes our lives, that evidence of the best of experience is unbelievable, out of the question? I think we are too passive to the news. The news is simply what is happening. We, too, can be what is happening. These are our lives. Ought we not to attempt to control them? Ought we not to assert and discover those moments of moral satisfaction by which we know life, too? It would be romantically unrealistic to regard the terrors and dark caves of the world as an aberration. We know too much. We have seen too much. But we can recognize the thrilling beauty of the world too, when we see it, and cherish it, and celebrate it, and spend time with it. Tenderness need not be shocking. Good works happen all the time. And they are not at all difficult to understand. Here's a story: A little deaf girl in Newton, Massachusetts, lives in a saddening silence, and then she doesn't. Her neighbors change their lives to be her friend.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Lovely. And welcome back to the NewsHour, Roger Rosenblatt.

朱迪·伍德拉夫：节目接近尾声，我们再听一则好消息，主角是罗杰·罗森布拉特。多年来，他一直是《新闻一小时》的评论家。今晚，他带来自己关于社群为共同事业而努力的分享。

罗杰·罗森布拉特，作家：肆意枪杀、恐怖袭击、种族主义政治家、欺侮女性、食物链低端被压迫，这些现象时有发生。但我要分享的是这样一则消息：在马萨诸塞州的牛顿，有一个地方为一名2岁的聋人女孩而团结一致。这名女孩感到自己被抛弃，形单影只，她无法与周围的世界交流。因此，她周围的人雇佣了一名老师，以学习手语。如今，每天早上，街上的人们都用手语与她讲话，向她问好。大家都笑着说她是自己的朋友。这里罕见的人性之暖让人震惊，这种震惊一点都不亚于死亡、毁灭、野蛮和犯罪消息给人带来的震惊。不过，我们为什么要对意料外的事情感到吃惊呢？我们长大的经历为何会让我们习惯往坏想，导致好的经历也让人根本无法相信呢？我认为，是因为我们对新闻太过消极了，新闻只是反映实事而已。我们自己也可能成为新闻中的要素。这就是生活。我们不应该试图控制这一切吗？我们不应该去发现展现这些道德正确的时刻吗？毕竟我们对生活的美好感受都是从这里出发的呀。将世界上黑暗恐怖的元素视为偏离正轨是不符合实际的。因为我们知道的太多，也看到了太多。但我们也要承认世界上存在着惊人的美，当我们看见的时候，会心怀珍惜，会想庆祝并沉浸于其中。温暖不需要成为惊人的一幕，因为好的事情也一直在发生。而且并不难理解。比如，那个马萨诸塞州牛顿市本来悲伤地生活在安静中，却得到周围人温暖的聋人小女孩。她的邻居们也因为成为她的朋友而改变了生活。

朱迪·伍德拉夫：很棒的分享。欢迎您常来我们节目，罗杰·罗森布拉特先生。