读了张磊博主的博文“一个科学家坚持了一辈子的信念，竟比不上娱乐圈的家常破事”，深有感触。李小文院士我曾有幸接触过，确实有读书人那种狂放的风格和深沉的情怀。他在科学网的文章也给人一种嬉笑怒骂皆文章的感受。可以说他是我见过的最平民化、最有血有肉的院士！

   我对博主的抱打不平的态度是心有戚戚焉，都是做科研的人，在金钱和权势面前没有尊严可言。是我们读书读坏了脑子，还是这个社会出了问题？前两天在读文献的时候读到了一段话，可能提供了一些答案，这里和大家共享一下。

   原文的题目是：The futures of the Healthy Cities and Communities movement, 由Bezold and Hancock 发表在National Civic Review, 2014, DOI: 10.1002/ncr.21182.

In the face of multiple challenges and crises, cities struggle to maintain even basic services—and many

do not succeed. In the face of this declining capacity, the city fractures into well-off, walled-off

communities and the rest; the middle class is essentially hollowed out, and society becomes quite polar-

ized. The poor and the underemployed are kept dependent and subservient and distracted with social

media and other means of entertainment (a classic bread-and-circuses approach first perfected by the

Romans two thousand years ago). This approach is complemented by a strong authoritarian and repres-

sive regime, including the extensive use of electronic surveillance, that keeps the lid on most social un-

rest most of the time.

   文中标红的地方我试着翻译一下：“穷人和失业者被迫保持依赖性和服从性，社会媒体或其它的娱乐方式被用来转移他们的注意力（一个2000年前被罗马人首先完善的经典的面包-马戏团的手段）”。 剩下的文字大家自己看吧。我没想到一篇谈公共卫生政策的文章能这么犀利地揭示了当前全球都面临的社会过度娱乐化的根源。

   但我总是认为历史是公平的，几个月后估计不会有人再炒王宝强离婚案的冷饭，但只要遥感科学存在一天就会有人记得Li-Strahler几何光学模型。

   这也许是我们做科研的人最愿意喝的心灵鸡汤吧！