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Everyone Is Chasing Money. I’m Chasing a Reason to Live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROCuP538rc0
Translation: zh-CN

[00:01] It feels like.
感觉就像。

[00:04] It feels like we're in a society that is in a perpetual state of people trying to hustle and make money.
感觉我们生活在一个社会里，人们总是想方设法地去赚钱。

[00:13] That is the bottom line of everything is how can somebody make money and I am literally just trying to figure out like a reason to get up in the morning.
一切的根本就是一个人如何赚钱，而我只是在努力找出起床的理由。

[00:29] What is my purpose? Why why am I here?
我的目的是什么？我为什么在这里？

[00:33] You know, and it gets quite exhausting when everybody around you seems to only care about money and whether or not they are fulfilled or whether or not they have a reason to live for themselves appears to be irrelevant.
你知道，当周围的每个人似乎只关心金钱，以及他们是否感到充实，或者是否有活下去的理由，这似乎无关紧要时，这会让人筋疲力尽。

[00:55] You know, I guess that doesn't matter.
你知道，我想那并不重要。

[00:57] I guess the only thing that matters to a lot of people is can I afford to survive?
我想，对很多人来说，唯一重要的事情是：我能否负担得起生存？

[01:00] But the tragedy
但悲剧是

[01:03] Can I afford to survive?
我能负担得起生存吗？

[01:03] But the tragedy is those people are not living.
但悲剧在于那些人并没有活着。

[01:07] They're just existing.
他们只是在生存。

[01:11] Cuz the truth is, you know, you could win financially and still feel empty.
因为事实是，你知道，你可以在经济上获胜，但仍然感到空虚。

[01:16] A lot of times, you know, some of the most wealthy people on earth are the most empty because they have the money, the money, the cars, the lifestyle, whatever.
很多时候，你知道，地球上一些最富有的人是最空虚的，因为他们拥有金钱、金钱、汽车、生活方式， whatever。

[01:29] But you know, they're still lacking a deeper sense of why they are here on earth.
但你知道，他们仍然缺乏一个更深层次的，关于他们为什么会在这里的意义。

[01:37] And when you don't have money, you're kind of given this illusion that like, oh, once I get money, that will equate to meaning.
当你没有钱的时候，你会得到一种错觉，就像，哦，一旦我有了钱，那就会等同于意义。

[01:44] But it's not.
但事实并非如此。

[01:44] And I mean, clearly I don't have a lot of money or anything, so I don't know what it's like to be on the other end of that.
我的意思是，显然我没有很多钱或任何东西，所以我不知道在另一端是什么样的。

[01:55] However, uh what I can say is that it's it's a neverending
然而，呃，我能说的是，这是一个永无止境的

[02:04] it's it's a neverending push to figure out who I am and why I'm here.
这是永无止境地去弄清楚我是谁以及我为什么在这里的努力。

[02:12] When you live in a capitalist society, when you live in a society that is in it seems like a perpetual decline, you know, everybody is trying to, as I've alluded to in previous videos, do things to distract themselves from the absurdity of their existence.
当你生活在一个资本主义社会，当你生活在一个似乎在永恒衰落的社会里，你知道，每个人都在努力，正如我在之前的视频中提到的，做一些事情来分散自己对生存荒谬性的注意力。

[02:28] I mean, we get jobs, friendships, we do anything to fill the time, any cheap dopamine hit we can find so that we can avoid, you know, facing the truth.
我的意思是，我们找工作、交朋友，我们做什么来填补时间，任何我们能找到的廉价多巴胺刺激，这样我们就可以避免，你知道，面对真相。

[02:43] I I've I've had this theory for quite some time now that I think every single person that drinks, I'm not shaming people that drink, but every single person that drinks does it uh to avoid suffering in some sense.
我我我有一个理论已经有一段时间了，我认为每一个喝酒的人，我不是在羞辱喝酒的人，但每一个喝酒的人这样做都是为了在某种意义上避免痛苦。

[02:57] Cuz you can even say the people that are like, "Oh, I just have a drink every once in a while cuz it's a good time."
因为你甚至可以说那些人是这样的，“哦，我偶尔喝一杯是因为那是个好时光。”

[03:01] Well, that good time is in and of itself, you know, sort of your escape from the suffering.
嗯，那个好时光本身，你知道，就是你逃避痛苦的一种方式。

[03:06] sort of your escape from the suffering.
某种程度上是你逃离痛苦的方式。

[03:09] And so, yeah, I think we can all we all intuitively feel it that it's like something just from a from a reason standpoint doesn't add up.
所以，是的，我认为我们都能，我们都能凭直觉感觉到，这就像从某个理性的角度来看，事情就是说不通的。

[03:23] you know, you it it seems like the only people that are kind of uh happy, the ones that seem to have it figured out, they're just less conscious.
你知道，你，它，它似乎是唯一那些看起来很开心的人，那些看起来一切都搞定的人，他们只是不那么有意识。

[03:30] Like they're just not even capable of, you know, assessing what is their reason on earth.
就像他们甚至没有能力，你知道，去评估他们在地球上的理由是什么。

[03:39] Like they're they're not like looking around and painted.
就像他们不是在环顾四周并被描绘出来一样。

[03:43] And granted, you know, I I will say, you know, a lot of people they don't like let on if they're, you know, thinking these things cuz they don't want other people to know.
而且不可否认，你知道，我会说，你知道，很多人他们不喜欢让人知道，他们是否，你知道，在想这些事情，因为他们不想让别人知道。

[03:51] So, so that's true.
所以，所以这是真的。

[03:53] So, I could be ignorant to that fact, but I do think it's true.
所以，我可能对这个事实一无所知，但我确实认为这是真的。

[03:54] It's like, dude, you go to Walmart, it's like the average IQ of these people at Walmart is it's something else.
就像，哥们，你去沃尔玛，就像这些在沃尔玛的人的平均智商，简直是不可思议。

[04:01] They're like I don't I don't even know how to describe it.
他们就像我不知道我甚至不知道如何形容它。

[04:03] And and I'm not trying to say it in a mean way, and I'm not trying
而且我不是想用一种刻薄的方式说，而且我不是想

[04:06] Say it in a mean way, and I'm not trying to say that I'm superior to these people.
用一种刻薄的方式说，我并不是想说我比这些人优越。

[04:08] To say that I'm superior to these people at all.
说我比这些人优越。

[04:11] I mean, they seem a lot happier than me, so uh good good for them.
我的意思是，他们看起来比我快乐得多，所以，嗯，对他们来说很好。

[04:13] But yeah, it just sucks when you feel that sort of disconnect.
但是的，当你感到那种疏离感时，这真的很糟糕。

[04:16] And it's never been there.
而且它从未存在过。

[04:17] I I'm not even really sure what connection would feel like because I've never had it.
我甚至不确定连接会是什么感觉，因为我从未有过。

[04:20] You know, money what it can do is it can fund a life but it can't define it.
你知道，金钱能做什么就是它能资助生活，但它不能定义生活。

[04:22] It's a tool.
它是一种工具。

[04:25] But sometimes tools once again are are there to distract us from the fact that we can never reach the end of the project.
但有时工具再次出现，是为了让我们分心，让我们无法意识到我们永远无法完成项目。

[04:30] We don't know what what even is the end goal.
我们不知道最终目标是什么。

[04:32] Nothing is very much clear.
没有什么非常清楚。

[04:35] Life is like a video game.
生活就像一场电子游戏。

[04:40] You know, you get a random you spawn in randomly.
你知道，你随机获得一个随机的出生点。

[05:07] Get a random, you spawn in randomly.
随机获得一个，你随机生成。

[05:09] There's a lot of NPCs that try to pull you on side quests.
有很多NPC会试图让你去做支线任务。

[05:13] You get, you know, the bad loot at the beginning of the game, but as the game goes on, you start to get better loot.
你会在游戏初期获得，你知道的，糟糕的战利品，但随着游戏的进行，你会开始获得更好的战利品。

[05:16] The smaller the circle, the better the competition, the better that the people that are around you.
圈子越小，竞争越激烈，你周围的人就越好。

[05:31] The reason I say this is just because I need to go to sleep, man. I'm tired.
我说这个的原因只是因为我需要睡觉了，伙计。我累了。

[05:39] But the reason I say that is because it it just seems like we're in some sort of I don't know, simulation or something sometimes where it's like it's very unclear what what the purpose is.
但我说那个的原因是因为它似乎我们正处于某种我不知道的，模拟或类似的东西中，有时它就像它非常不清楚，目的究竟是什么。

[05:56] What is our goal? What are we supposed to be striving for? because it seems like at least in my life all my efforts have rendered empty in terms of like finding out like why is
我们的目标是什么？我们应该追求什么？因为似乎至少在我的生活中，我所有的努力都徒劳无功，就像找出为什么

[06:07] in terms of like finding out like why is it that I'm here.
就好像在找出我为什么在这里一样。

[06:09] I mean you know sometimes you can materialize success from your efforts for sure.
我的意思是，你知道，有时你可以通过你的努力来获得成功，这肯定是真的。

[06:14] I mean, that's happened, but yeah, I don't think that I never want to say never.
我的意思是，这种情况发生过，但是的，我不认为我永远不想说永远。

[06:27] However, oo, never want to say never, but however, um, never want to say never.
然而，哦，永远不想说永远，但然而，嗯，永远不想说永远。

[06:33] However, um, never want to say never.
然而，嗯，永远不想说永远。

[06:36] However, it's very unlikely that I think purpose would fall out of the sky.
然而，我认为目标不太可能凭空出现。

[06:38] I think you kind of got to make it.
我认为你得自己创造它。

[06:40] You got to create your own purpose.
你必须创造自己的目标。

[06:42] Uh and that's something that I'm working towards.
呃，这是我正在努力的方向。

[06:45] That's something that I'm definitely certainly trying to get better at.
这是我肯定正在努力做得更好的事情。

[06:47] But once again, life is solo mission.
但再说一次，生活是独自的使命。

[06:50] And because of that, you know, people can tell you, you can get all the advice in the world.
因为这个原因，你知道，人们可以告诉你，你可以得到世界上所有的建议。

[06:53] You can read all the books.
你可以读所有的书。

[06:54] You can do everything.
你可以做任何事。

[06:56] But some things in life, the deeper and the more uh intentional
但在生活中，有些事情，越深入，越有意识

[07:01] significant things in life are almost
生活中重要的事情几乎是

[07:09] Significant things in life are almost always done alone.
生活中重要的事情几乎总是独自完成的。

[07:21] Most people are they're too distracted.
大多数人是因为他们太分心了。

[07:22] Most people are they're too distracted to even question it.
大多数人是因为他们太分心了，甚至不去质疑它。

[07:24] As I was saying to even question it.
正如我刚才说的，甚至去质疑它。

[07:24] As I was saying before, constant simulation, whether that's doom scrolling, whether that's, you know, music, drugs, whatever it is, people can't stand to spend time alone with themselves and their thoughts.
正如我之前说的，持续的模拟，无论是刷负面信息，还是，你知道，听音乐，吸毒，无论是什么，人们都无法忍受独自与自己和自己的想法相处。

[07:36] And that's like pretty much how I live off of.
而这几乎就是我的生活方式。

[07:39] I spend all my time alone, no social life, don't go out.
我所有的时间都独自度过，没有社交生活，不出门。

[07:43] I read a lot of books.
我读了很多书。

[07:45] I, you know, study philosophy and I kind of just try to make sense of things.
我，你知道，研究哲学，我有点只是试图理解事物。

[07:52] And one thing that doesn't help is that a lot of the greatest minds in history, a lot of the great philosophers, you know, they they realize that you don't really have a purpose.
有一件事没有帮助，那就是历史上许多最伟大的思想家，许多伟大的哲学家，你知道，他们意识到你并没有真正的目标。

[07:58] You don't really have a meaning.
你并没有真正的意义。

[08:05] And a lot of them just drew this conclusion that you have to make your own meaning, which I think is good.
他们中的许多人得出了这样的结论：你必须创造自己的意义，我认为这是好的。

[08:09] own meaning, which I think is good.
拥有自己的意义，我觉得这很好。

[08:12] I think it's a good sentiment um that that I would certainly tell people, but
我觉得这是一种很好的情怀，我肯定会告诉别人，但是

[08:16] in a in a way I don't like that because
某种程度上我不太喜欢这样，因为

[08:18] it's like if you make your own, doesn't that take away the value of it?
就像如果你自己创造，这会不会削弱它的价值？

[08:23] Meaning like if it's not given to you if you can just make it whatever, then it's kind of easy to create a purpose and it feels less intimate.
意思是，如果它不是被赋予给你的，如果你可以随意创造它，那么创造一个目的就变得很容易，而且感觉不那么亲密。

[08:28] It feels less significant if it's if it can be anything, you know?
如果它可以是任何东西，感觉就不那么重要了，你知道吗？

[08:35] I don't I feel like I'd want it to be somewhat exclusive or something.
我不知道，我觉得我希望它有点排他性或者别的什么。

[08:39] Anyways, thank you guys for watching.
总之，感谢大家的观看。