Issue65 Similarities among different ideas
65"People have been so encouraged by society to focus on apparent differences that they fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups."
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"All men, all minds." This old saying reflects the inevitable differences of ideas. Individuals and groups keep conflicting with each other on one issue or another. In the endless and ceaseless controversies, however, we can find similarities shared by the debaters. And usually from these similarities come new and more valuable ideas, whether in sciences or in politics.
The history of sciences is actually a history of controversies. A good case in point is the debate between two theories about the nature of light. One theory, derived from the traditional and mechanical view of matters, assumed that light travels in the same way as does a ball. The other theory, in contrast, believed that light behaves just like sound. Later, a new theory settled the debate by reconciling the two, although seeming oil and vinegar, and concluded that light moves in a statistic- probability manner that caused the paradoxical phenomena.
In the politic realm, leaders also discover solutions on controversial issues by seeking out the similarities behind the words of opposite views. For example, shortly after Franklin Roosevelt became President of USA, he encountered the worst economy crisis in the history. Experiences about foregoing crises offered no effective solution, since governments were believed to keep away from economy or at most just promote free competition in every market (with one sole exception concerning national defense). Social infrastructures, such as railways, were in the list of free markets. However, in the crisis many private companies failed to survive, let alone to sustain the economy of the capitalistic countries. Governments had to do something, but the only example then was Communistic planned economy in USSR (the most opponent of USA) simply controlling the economy of the whole country strictly. Roosevelt reconciled the two conflicting ways successfully into a limited participation of government in economy restoration, including construction of infrastructures sponsored by the government.
In fact, no matter what field they are in, successful people usually consciously or unconsciously look for similarities among diversity. The reason is understandable: if there is one solution to a problem, it must rest on the ground that is least accessible to attacks. Furthermore, similarity usually is the best path to truth, for opposite views would not have share it otherwise.
Unfortunately, in modern societies, mass media and politics have found it best way to win audience: playing farces of meaningless quarrels appealing emotion rather than reason. As a result, people have been so impressed and thus encouraged by the ostensible resolution that they often see the differences between ideas and are reluctant to reconcile. Thereby, debates leading to no constructive agreement can be seen everywhere and just help people no more than to kill time.
Any one who want to succeed, in whatever region, must learn to wisely discover the similarities among appearing different ideas and strive for new ones. In modern time, this ability, or wisdom, is especially precious under the irresponsible bombardment of showy resolution other than constructive reconciliation.
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10:28 "All men, all minds." This old saying reflects the inevitable differences of ideas. Individuals and groups keep conflicting with each other on one issue or another. In the endless and ceaseless controversies, however, we can find similarities shared by the debaters. And usually from these similarities come new and more valuable ideas, whether in sciences or in politics.
The history of sciences is actually a history of controversies. A good case in point is the debate between two theories about the nature of light. One theory, derived from the traditional and mechanical view of matters, assumed that light travels in the same way as does a ball (as a ball does?). The other theory, in contrast, believed that light behaves just like sound. Later, a new theory settled the debate by reconciling the two, although seeming oil and vinegar, and concluded that light moves in a statistic- probability manner that caused (causes) the paradoxical phenomena.
In the politic realm, leaders also discover solutions on controversial issues by seeking out the similarities behind the words of opposite views. For example, shortly after Franklin Roosevelt became President of USA, he encountered the worst economy crisis in the history (in history?). Experiences about foregoing crises offered no effective solution, since governments were believed to(要改一下，不太好)keep away from economy or at most just promote free competition in every market (with one sole exception concerning national defense). Social infrastructures, such as railways, were in the list of free markets. However, in the crisis many private companies failed to survive, let alone to sustain the economy of the capitalistic countries. Governments had to do something, but the only example then was Communistic planned economy in USSR (the most (biggest?) opponent of USA) simply controlling the economy of the whole country strictly. Roosevelt reconciled the two conflicting ways successfully into a limited participation of government in economy restoration, including construction of infrastructures sponsored by the government.
In fact, no matter what field they are in, successful people usually consciously or unconsciously look for similarities among diversity. The reason is understandable: if there is one solution to a problem, it must rest on the ground that is least accessible to attacks. Furthermore, similarity usually is the best path to truth, for opposite views would not have share it otherwise.
Unfortunately, in modern societies, mass media and politics have found (find) it best way to win audience: playing farces of meaningless quarrels appealing emotion rather than reason. As a result, people have been so impressed and thus encouraged by the ostensible resolution that they often see (concentrate on) the differences between ideas and are reluctant to reconcile(reconcile用太多了).Thereby, debates leading to no constructive agreement can be seen everywhere and just help people no more than to kill time.
Any one who want (wants) to succeed, in whatever region, must learn to wisely discover the similarities among appearing different ideas and strive for(strive for似乎不妥)new ones. In modern time, this ability, or wisdom, is especially precious under the irresponsible bombardment of showy resolution other than constructive reconciliation.
不好意思，水平所限，没看出太多错误。而且你的文章写得很好，语言、句式什么的都很不错。但个人认为第二段举的光学的例子不是很恰当，因为你没有指出这两种理论有什么similarities（实际上并没有，它们之所以能被reconciled是由于光的本性——个人见解）。第三段例子很有力和贴切，但如果能说一下它们的similarites个人觉得会更有说服力。
第四段的分析特别精彩，佩服死了。
总的来说你文章写得很不错，尤其语言。（可否说一下怎么练习语言啊，我语言运用上太烂了） “as does a ball”是倒装，但正确与否就不清楚了。
“caused”过去时没错啊！
“in history”好像是不该有the的，谢了。
“governments were believed to”改成were supposed to如何？
“most opponent of USA”好大的错误。当时就觉得哪里不对劲，但急着往下写，就没管。
“have found”也没错吧。
“often see (concentrate on) ”这里see的确不合适。
“reconcile用太多了”？没办法，想不起来可替换的词了。
“Any one who want”低级错误……
我觉得光的波粒二象性是绝佳的例子。你说“它们之所以能被reconciled是由于光的本性”当然完全正确，这也正是我在第四段里特意指出的。
至于语言练习，我个人认为，首先要写好中文的议论文和杂文。然后不断揣摩英语范文。
另外，下载我制作的文字变色工具（第三版）吧。你不会后悔的。
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