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【人类简史】远古人类的一天在做什么? · 颠覆你对「原始生活

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0:00This morning, a machine screamed at you until you woke up, you silenced it, and from that second,今天早上,一个机器对你尖叫 直到你醒来,你安静下来, 从那一刻起,
0:04your day was already decided.你的日子已经决定了
0:06Where you had to be, what you had to finish, how many hours你在哪里,你必须完成什么, 多少小时
0:08belonged to someone else.是别人的
0:10And tonight, before you sleep, you'll set that same machine to scream at今晚,在你睡前,你会设置同一个机器 尖叫着
0:13you again.又来了
0:13Now rewind 50,000 years.现在倒数五万年。
0:15A man wakes up in the morning light with no alarm, no schedule,一个男人在早晨醒来 没有警报,没有时间表,
0:18and nowhere he has to be.也无处可去
0:19He owns a spear, two animal hides, and a fire.他拥有长矛,两只动物藏,还有一只火.
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1This morning, a machine screamed at you until you woke up, you silenced it, and from that second,今天早上,一个机器对你尖叫 直到你醒来,你安静下来, 从那一刻起,
2your day was already decided.你的日子已经决定了
3Where you had to be, what you had to finish, how many hours你在哪里,你必须完成什么, 多少小时
4belonged to someone else.是别人的
5And tonight, before you sleep, you'll set that same machine to scream at今晚,在你睡前,你会设置同一个机器 尖叫着
6you again.又来了
7Now rewind 50,000 years.现在倒数五万年。
8A man wakes up in the morning light with no alarm, no schedule,一个男人在早晨醒来 没有警报,没有时间表,
9and nowhere he has to be.也无处可去
10He owns a spear, two animal hides, and a fire.他拥有长矛,两只动物藏,还有一只火.
11And he sits up, stretches,他站起来,伸展,
12and asks himself a question you have never once been free enough to ask.问自己一个你从未有自由过的问题
13What should I do today?今天怎么办?
14Now, your brain is already fighting this.现在,你的大脑已经与这个作斗争了。
15It's telling you no.它告诉你没有。
16Ancient life was brutal,古老的生活是残酷的,
17short, and desperate.和绝望。
18Every second was survival.每一秒钟都是生存。
19That's what everyone believed.人人都这么认为
20For centuries,几百年来
21that was the official story.这是官方的说法。
22But the proof that it's wrong was lying buried in the ground the但证明这是错的 是埋在地里
23entire time.整个时间。
24And when scientists finally dug it up, it flipped everything upside down.当科学家们终于把它挖出来, 它把一切都翻了过来。
25And that还有
26opens up a mystery.打开一个神秘。
27Because you live surrounded by machines built to save time.因为你住在周围的机器 用来节省时间
28Washing machines,洗衣机,
29dishwashers, microwaves, cars, every one of them was invented to give you more free hours.洗碗机,微波炉,汽车,每个都发明了 让你有更多的免费时间。
30So how does a man with none of that, no technology at all, end up with more free time than you?那么一个没有技术的人 怎么会有比你更多的空闲时间呢?
31What did he actually do all day that you can't?他整天都做什么你做不到的事吗?
32And where did all of your time go?你所有的时间都去了哪里?
33To answer that,为了回答这个问题,
34we have to start in the ground.我们必须从地面开始。
35Because somewhere in the Middle East, archaeologists are digging.因为在中东的某个地方,考古学家正在挖掘。
36And over the years, from the same region, they pull up two human skeletons.多年来,他们从同一个地区 拔出两个人类骨架。
37They lived a few他们住过几个
38thousand years apart.相隔千载.
39That's close enough to compare them, but far enough that they come够接近比较了,但够远了
40from two completely different worlds.来自两个完全不同的世界
41The first skeleton is tall.第一个骨架是高的。
42The bones are thick and strong.骨厚而坚.
43The teeth are worn, but healthy.牙齿被磨损,但健康。
44Almost no cavities.几乎没有腔.
45The joints are clean.关节清净.
46This was a这是
47well, moved in varied ways, and never got ground down by one repeated motion.好吧,以不同的方式移动, 从来没有得到地面下来 一次反复的动议。
48The second skeleton第二个骨架
49tells a harder story.讲述了一个更难的故事。
50齿满齿ities.
51The spine shows arthritis.脊椎显示关节炎.
52The specific具体内容
53damage you get from bending and grinding through the same motion, thousands of times, year after你从弯曲和磨磨 通过相同的运动,数千次,一年之后
54year.年数。
55And this person died younger.这个人死得更年轻
56So which one is which?那么哪一个是什么?
57Take a guess.猜猜看,你觉得呢?
58Most people point to the大多数人指出,
59tall, healthy skeleton and say that's the modern one.高,健康的骨架,说这是现代的。
60The farmer with tools and stored food and a农夫拿着工具 储存着食物
61roof over his head.屋顶在他的头上。
62And the short, broken one.和短,破一个。
63That must be the caveman.一定是那个洞穴人
64The guy scraping by这家伙刮
65But it's the opposite.却与么反.
66The strong skeleton belonged to the hunter-gatherer.坚固的骨架属于猎人-采集者.
67The wrecked残骸
68one belonged to the farmer, the person from the era we call progress.一个是农民的 我们称之为进步的人
69And this isn't one这不是一个
70weird pair of bones.奇怪的一对骨头。
71Archaeologists have run this comparison at sites all over the world, and wherever考古学家在世界各地和任何地方都进行了这种比较。
72farming replaced hunting and gathering, the same pattern shows up in the ground.农耕取代了狩猎和采集,同样的模式出现在地面上。
73Generations got代代相传
74shorter than the ones before them.比前辈还矮
75Their teeth rotted, their spines wore down, and their lives他们的牙齿腐烂,脊椎磨损,他们的生活
76ended earlier.早点结束。
77Think about what that means.想想这是什么意思
78Your skeleton is a diary.你的骨架是日记
79It records how hard you worked,它记录了你的辛苦工作,
80how well you ate, how your body was used, and it holds that record for thousands of years.你吃得如何,你的身体是如何使用的, 它保持了几千年的记录。
81And the还有
82diaries say the people with nothing but spears were living easier lives than the people who came日记上说只有长矛的人 生活比来的人容易
83after them with farms, storage, and villages.在他们之后,有庄稼、仓储和村莊。
84But bones can only tell you so much.但骨头只能告诉你这么多。
85They can prove the他们可以证明
86work was lighter.工作比较轻松。
87They can't show you how a normal day actually went.他们不能告诉你 正常的一天是怎样的。
88So let me walk you through one.让我带你穿过一个。
89You wake up at dawn on your own, because your body got the sleep it needed.你在黎明醒来的时候独自一人 因为你的身体得到了它需要的睡眠
90The fire from last night昨晚的火灾
91is still burning in the middle of camp.仍在营区燃烧
92And people are already sitting around it, eating leftover人们已经坐在这里吃剩菜
93meat and nuts, talking about where the water is good and where the animal tracks were spotted.说到水的好地方和动物的踪迹
94That's the whole morning plan.这就是整个早上的计划。
95And when it's decided, it's decided by everyone.且当决定时,皆由众生决定.
96And today,还有今天
97nobody needs to hunt.没有人需要狩猎。
98The last hunt was two days ago, and there's still plenty of food.最后一次狩猎是两天前,仍然有大量的食物.
99So a few所以几个
100people go out to gather plants, and you spend the morning on your tools.人们出去采集植物, 你花早晨在工具上。
101You sharpen your spear,你磨磨你的长矛,
102and you work a stiff hide until it turns soft.你将用一个坚硬的藏起来,直到它变成柔软的。
103You do this because skill earns respect here,你这样做是因为技能在这里赢得了尊重
104not because someone told you to.不是因为有人叫你这么做的
105And by early afternoon, everything that needed doing is到了下午,所有需要做的是,
106Two days later, the meat runs low, so today you hunt.两天后,肉量减少,所以今天你猎杀。
107And real hunting looks nothing like the真正的狩猎看起来不像
108movies.电影
109You never chase the animal, because it's faster than you, and it always will be.你从不追赶动物,因为它比你快,它永远是。
110Instead,相反,
111you follow it at a steady walking pace for hours.跟着它走数小时
112Your body can sweat and cool itself while it moves.你的身体在运动时可以汗出和冷却自己.
113The animal can't.畜不能为.
114So it keeps sprinting, keeps overheating, and keeps getting weaker until it所以它不停的冲刺 不停的过热 直到它变弱
115finally collapses and you walk up to it.终于崩溃了,你走到它。
116You were never the fastest thing out there.你从来都不是最快的人
117You were the你是那个
118only thing that never has to stop.只有一件永远不能停止的事
119The hunt takes the whole day, and it's the hardest work this life猎杀要花一整天时间 这一辈子最辛苦的工作
120asks of you.问你。
121But one good hunt feeds the camp for days, so tomorrow the free time starts again.但一次好猎食喂养了营地几天 所以明天自由时间重新开始
122And at this point, you're probably thinking this sounds too good to be real.此时此刻,你可能认为 这听起来太好 真实。
123It sounds like a这听起来像一个
124fantasy someone invented about the past.幻想有人发明了过去
125So let's deal with that, because one man had the exact same所以,让我们来处理, 因为一个人有同样的
126doubt, and he did something about it.怀疑,他做了一些事情。
127In 1963, an anthropologist named Richard Lee walked into the1963年,一位名叫李理查的人类学家走进
128Kalahari Desert on the edge of Botswana.博茨瓦纳边缘的卡拉哈里沙漠.
129It's one of the harshest places on Earth a human being can这是地球上最严酷的地方之一 一个人类可以
130live.活着
131He went there to study the Juhoansi, one of the last groups still living the old way, hunting他在那里学习朱万西, 最后一个群体 仍然生活在老路,狩猎
132animals and gathering plants with no farms and no stores.动物和采集植物 没有农场和商店。
133Lee expected to find misery.李期望找到痛苦
134That was the就是那个
135official story in every textbook, that life before farming meant working every daylight hour just to每本教科书上的官方报道 农耕前的生活意味着每个白天都工作
136barely survive.活下来了
137But instead of assuming it, he decided to count it.但他没有假设,而是决定数数.
138He followed people around他跟着人到处走
139with a notebook and a stopwatch, and he recorded how they spent every single hour, day after day,他录下了他们一天又一天的 一小时的时间
140for weeks.几个星期。
141Lee came back with a number that nobody believed.李带着一个没人相信的号码回来了
142These people were spending about 17 hours这些人花了大约17个小时
143a week getting food.一周买食物
144And that's not 17 hours a day.这不是每天17小时。
145That's 17 hours across the entire week,整个星期共17小时
146which comes out to about two and a half days of work.大约两天半的工作
147Every hour after that belonged to them.之后的每一小时都属于他们
148For comparison, you'll cross 17 hours of work by Wednesday afternoon.相比之下,你将在周三下午完成17小时的工作。
149现在,也许Juhoansi是
150just one lucky group in one lucky spot.在一个幸运的地方 只有一个幸运的团体
151That's a fair doubt, and scientists had it too.这是一个相当的怀疑, 科学家也有它。
152So they所以他们
153went and ran the same count on other groups still living the old way.并运行同样的数 其他群体仍然 生活老路。
154They checked the Hadza in他们检查了哈扎
155Tanzania, then the Ache in Paraguay, then the Martu in Australia.坦桑尼亚,然后是巴拉圭的阿切人,然后是澳大利亚的马尔图人.
156Three groups on three different三组不同
157continents.大陆。
158And every single time, the answer came back between 15 and 20 hours a week.并且每一次,答案都会在每周15到20小时之间回来.
159That was the就是那个
160cost of staying alive.活着的代价
161But here's the part nobody tells you.但这里是没有人告诉你的部分。
162The most important hours in that whole整个过程中最重要的时间
163week were not the hunting hours.一周不是狩猎时间。
164They were the lazy-looking hours that came after, because those他们是懒惰的小时 之后,因为那些
165hours were doing a bigger job than food.小时的工作比食物还重要
166It's afternoon, and the camp has slowed down.今午,营已缓.
167People人员
168sit in the shade and talk.坐在树荫下 说话
169They play with the kids, and they groom each other, picking through hair他们和孩子们玩耍, 互相驯服,挑剔头发
170while the conversation drifts.而谈话却流逝
171Next to you, someone is drilling tiny holes through seashells to string在你旁边 有人在海贝壳上钻小孔
172into a necklace.成为一条项链。
173Someone else is carving a design into a piece of bone, and that design has no别人正在把设计刻成一块骨头 设计没有
174purpose at all except to look good.目的除了看起来不错
175And this isn't a guess about how they filled their time.这不是一个猜测 他们是如何填充时间。
176At Blombos Cave in South Africa, archaeologists found shell beads that are over 70,000 years old,在南非的Blombos洞穴,考古学家发现了7万多年的贝壳珠,
177small sea snail shells with holes carefully drilled through them made to be worn.小海螺壳,有孔孔 仔细钻过它们 制成磨损。
178The coast was a long海岸很长
179walk from where these people lived.从这些人住的地方走出来
180So someone made that trip, collected the shells, carried them home,所以有人去旅行 收集炮弹 带他们回家
181and then sat for hours drilling holes with stone tools just to make something beautiful.然后坐了好几个小时 用石头工具钻洞 只为了做点漂亮的东西
182And in 2008,而在2008年,
183in a cave in Germany, researchers dug up a flute carved from a vulture's wing bone.在德国的一个洞穴里,研究人员挖出了一只从秃鹰的翅膀骨头上雕刻的笛子.
184It's 40,000四万块
185years old, and it has five finger holes spaced for actual musical notes.它有5个指孔 用于实际的音乐笔记
186So someone in the Ice Age冰河时代的人
187understood music well enough to build an instrument, and someone had enough free time to learn to play对音乐的理解足够好 足以制造乐器 有人有足够的空闲时间学习演奏
188it.这个
189But the beads and the flute point at something bigger, because this world has no money, no police,但珠子和笛子指向更大的东西 因为这个世界没有钱 没有警察
190and no courts.没有法庭
191So ask yourself, what actually keeps you alive here when your hunt fails, or when you所以问问你自己,什么让你在这里活着 当你的狩猎失败,或者当你
192get sick, or when you break your leg and can't walk for a month?生病了 还是你断了腿 一个月不能走路
193The answer is other people.答案是别人。
194That's the就是这样
195entire safety net.整个安全网
196If people like you, they feed you when you have nothing.如果像你这样的人 你一无所有 他们就会喂你
197But if they don't like但是如果他们不喜欢
198you, then nobody owes you anything, and you starve.你,然后没有人欠你任何东西, 而你挨饿。
199So all those lazy afternoon hours of talking and所以所有懒惰的下午 聊天和
200joking and grooming were actually an investment in the only insurance this world has.开玩笑和调情其实是投资 世界上唯一的保险。
201The那个
202anthropologist James Sussman found that Jew-Hawansi adults spend around six hours every single day on人类学家詹姆斯·苏斯曼发现,犹太-哈万西成年人每天花费大约6个小时
203pure social time, because in this world, your relationships are your bank account, your hospital,纯粹的社交时间 因为在这个世界上 你们的关系是你的银行账户 你的医院
204and your pension all at once.和你的养老金 一次。
205Then the sun goes down.则阳气下陷.
206And here's where it gets really interesting,在这里它变得非常有趣,
207because the best hours of the day haven't even started yet.因为今天最好的时间 还没有开始。
208In 2014, an anthropologist named2014年,一位人类学家命名为
209Polly Weissner published a study that might explain where human culture itself comes from.波利·魏斯纳(Polly Weissner)发表了一项研究,可能解释人类文化本身的起源.
210She had recordings of Jew-Hawansi conversations collected across decades, and she sorted all of她有记录 犹太人和哈旺西的对话 收集了数十年, 她整理了所有
211them by one simple thing.简而言之,
212Was it said during the day, or at night?是白天还是晚上?
213The daytime talk turned out to白天的谈话结果
214be practical.实际点
215People discussed where the animal tracks were, which plants were ready to gather,人们讨论动物的踪迹在哪里, 哪些植物准备聚集,
216and who wasn't sharing fairly.和谁没有公平分享。
217It was basically logistics and gossip.这基本上是物流和八卦。
218But at night, around the但是在晚上,在周围
219fire, the talking changed completely.火,说话完全改变了。
220Eighty-one percent of the firelight conversation turned into81%的火光对话变成了
221people told myths about how the world began, tales of ancestors who did impossible things,人们告诉神话 关于世界是如何开始的, 故事的祖先 谁做了不可能的事情,
222and jokes that ran long into the dark.和长期陷入黑暗的笑话
223And notice what kind of stories these are.注意这些是什么故事。
224Gods and spirits,神灵们,
225the past and the future, none of that comes out of a scared, hungry mind.过去和将来, 没有一个来自一个恐惧,饥饿的头脑。
226Those stories only show up那些故事只会出现
227when your stomach is full and your body is safe.当腹满而身安.
228So the fire was doing more than cooking food and所以大火不止做饭
229keeping predators away.让掠食者远离。
230It created the first hours in human history where the mind was completely它创造了人类历史上的头几个小时, 在那里,心灵是完全的
231free.免费。
232And Weissner argued that this is exactly where culture was born.而魏斯纳认为,这正是文化诞生的地方.
233Not in the middle of不是在中间
234work, but in the quiet hours after it.工作,但在它之后的安静时间。
235And when the fire burned low, even sleep worked differently.而当火烧得很低时,甚至睡眠效果也不同.
236Before artificial light existed, humans didn't sleep in one long block.在人工光线存在之前,人类并没有在一个长的街区内睡觉.
237Historical records and历史记录和
238modern sleep experiments both show the same pattern.现代睡眠实验都表现出相同的模式.
239People slept about four hours, then人们大概睡了四个小时
240woke up for an hour or two in the middle of the night, and they stayed calm in that darkness,半夜醒来一两个小时 他们在黑暗中保持冷静
241thinking or talking quietly until sleep came back for another four hours.静静地思考或说话 直到睡眠又恢复了四个小时
242That quiet hour in the那个安静的小时
243middle was completely normal for thousands of generations.在数千代人中,中间是完全正常的。
244Today you wake up at 2 a.m. and call今天你凌晨2点醒来打电话
245it insomnia.是失眠症
246Your body might just be doing the oldest thing it knows.你的身体可能只是做它知道的最老的事情。
247So now you've seen the whole现在你看到了整个
248picture.图片。
249Food took a few hours, people took the afternoon, stories took the night, and sleep came食物花了几个小时,人们下午吃,故事夜里吃,睡觉来了
250in two calm halves.在两个平静的一半。
251That was the human schedule for hundreds of thousands of years.这是人类数十万年的日程
252Then, about然后,关于
25310,000 years ago, somebody planted a seed, and that's the moment your time started disappearing.一万年前,有人种了种子, 这就是你开始消失的时刻。
254It happened in the Middle East, in a region called the Fertile Crescent, when humans started planting它发生在中东, 在一个叫发酵新月的地区, 当人类开始种植
255grain and keeping animals instead of hunting and gathering.谷物和养殖动物 而不是狩猎和采集。
256And on paper, farming sounds like a纸上说,农业听起来像
257massive upgrade.大规模升级。
258You get more food, you get control, and you never have to follow an antelope你得到更多的食物,你得到控制, 你从来没有跟随羚羊
259for six hours again.再来6小时
260But farming is a trap.但农耕是一个陷阱。
261And here's exactly how it snaps shut.这就是它如何关闭。
262Farming produces农业生产
263more food.再来点吃的
264More food means more babies survive, so the population grows.更多的食物意味着更多的婴儿存活下来,因此人口增长.
265A bigger population needs需要更多的人口
266more food, so you plant more fields.更多的食物,所以你种植更多的田地。
267More fields means more work.更多的田地意味着更多的工作.
268And then the lock clicks.然后锁点击。
269Once一次
270your group is too big to feed by hunting and gathering, the old life can't carry you anymore.你的团体太大了 无法靠狩猎和采集来养活你 旧生活不能再载着你了
271You can never go back.你永远不能回去。
272You're in.你进去了
273Permanently.永远
274And so is every generation born after you.在你之后出生的每一代人也一样
275And the还有
276workload explodes.工作量爆炸。
277Now there's plowing, planting, weeding, harvesting, storing, and guarding it all,现在有犁,种植,杂草,收割,储存, 并守护它,
278season after season, forever.一季又一季,永远。
279And remember the second skeleton from the beginning.并记住第二骨架 从一开始。
280The one with一个有
281the rotten teeth and the worn-out spine that died young.牙齿腐烂 脊椎老化 死了年轻。
282That skeleton is what this new life did to这个骨架就是新生命对它所做的
283people.人们
284The first farmers worked harder and lived worse than the hunter-gatherers before them, and最早的农民比他们之前的狩猎采集者更努力 生活更糟糕
285they couldn't leave.他们不能离开。
286And the trap kept tightening.陷阱不断收紧。
287Big farming villages produced specialists,大型农业村产生了专家,
288potters, toolmakers, weavers.陶工,工具制造者,织工.
289Specialists needed trade, and trade built cities.专家需要贸易,贸易需要建设城市。
290Then cities brought城市带来了
291soldiers, priests, and tax collectors.士兵、牧师和税吏
292And eventually they brought a brand new idea in human最后他们给人类带来了全新的想法
293history.历史
294For the first time ever, your hours could belong to someone else, sold off in exchange for第一次,你的时间可能属于别人, 卖掉交换
295food you no longer knew how to find on your own.食物你不再知道 如何自己寻找。
296So nobody stole your time in one dramatic night.所以,没有人偷走你的时间在一个戏剧性的夜晚。
297It was traded away slowly, one generation at a time, in a deal that no one alive today ever got它被慢慢地交换了, 一代又一代, 在一个交易中,今天没有人活着
298the chance to refuse.拒绝的机会。
299The alarm that screamed at you this morning is just the latest payment.今早对你大喊大叫的警报只是最新的付款
300For对于
301hundreds of thousands of years, humans worked 15 to 20 hours a week, and the skeletons in the ground几十万年,人类每周工作15到20小时 地上的骨架
302prove it.证明它。
303The afternoons went into craft and beauty, and the relationships that kept everyone午后进入手艺和美貌 关系让每个人
304alive.活着。
305The nights went into firelight stories, where culture itself was born, and sleep came in夜晚进入了火光的故事, 文化本身诞生, 睡觉进来
306two calm halves.两个平静的一半。
307Then farming arrived, the population trap locked behind us, and step by step,然后,农业到达, 人口陷阱锁定在我们身后, 一步一步地,
308our hours stopped being ours.我们的时间不再属于我们。
309Today, you'll spend about 90,000 hours of your life working.今天,你会花 大约90,000小时你的生活工作。
310You make art only if there's anything left of you after your job.只有在你工作完之后 你才能做艺术
311They made art in the middle of an他们创作艺术 在中间
312ordinary afternoon, you network for career advantage, they spent six hours a day with people平时下午,你这个职业优势的网络 他们每天与人共度六小时
313they loved, and it counted as survival.他们爱, 它算作生存。
314You chase success, savings, retirement, some finish line你追求成功,储蓄,退休, 一些终点线
315where you finally get your time back.在那里你终于得到了你的时间回来。
316They were already standing on that finish line.他们已经站在终点线上
317They were他们是
318born on it.生于其上.
319Every morning, they woke up with no alarm and no schedule, and they asked themselves每天早上,他们醒来时没有惊慌失措,也没有日程安排,他们自问
320the one question you have never been free enough to ask.一个你一直没有自由 问。
321You are working your entire existence to你整个存在都是为了
322someday retire into that life.总有一天会退休的
323They lived it from their first day to their last, and they would find他们从头到尾都活了下来 他们就会发现
324it very strange that you traded it all away for a screaming alarm and a promise.奇怪的是你为了一个尖叫的警报和保证 把这些都卖掉了
325You are working your你在工作 你的工作吗?
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0:00This morning, a machine screamed at you until you woke up, you silenced it, and from that second, your day was already decided.今天早上,一个机器对你尖叫 直到你醒来,你沉默了它, 从那一刻起,你的一天已经决定了。
0:06Where you had to be, what you had to finish, how many hours belonged to someone else,你在哪里,你必须完成什么, 多少小时属于别人,
0:10and tonight, before you sleep, you'll set that same machine to scream at you again.今晚,在你睡觉前,你会设置同一台机器 再次对你尖叫。
0:13Now rewind 50,000 years.现在倒数五万年。
0:15A man wakes up in the morning light with no alarm, no schedule, and nowhere he has to be.一个男人醒来时在晨光中,没有警报,没有时间表,他无处可去.
0:19He owns a spear, two animal hides, and a fire.他拥有长矛,两只动物藏,还有一只火.
0:22And he sits up, stretches, and asks himself a question you have never once been free enough to ask.他坐着,伸展, 问自己一个问题 你从来没有 自由过问。
0:27What should I do today?今天怎么办?
0:28Now, your brain is already fighting this.现在,你的大脑已经与这个作斗争了。
0:30It's telling you no.它告诉你没有。
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1This morning, a machine screamed at you until you woke up, you silenced it, and from that second, your day was already decided.今天早上,一个机器对你尖叫 直到你醒来,你沉默了它, 从那一刻起,你的一天已经决定了。
2Where you had to be, what you had to finish, how many hours belonged to someone else,你在哪里,你必须完成什么, 多少小时属于别人,
3and tonight, before you sleep, you'll set that same machine to scream at you again.今晚,在你睡觉前,你会设置同一台机器 再次对你尖叫。
4Now rewind 50,000 years.现在倒数五万年。
5A man wakes up in the morning light with no alarm, no schedule, and nowhere he has to be.一个男人醒来时在晨光中,没有警报,没有时间表,他无处可去.
6He owns a spear, two animal hides, and a fire.他拥有长矛,两只动物藏,还有一只火.
7And he sits up, stretches, and asks himself a question you have never once been free enough to ask.他坐着,伸展, 问自己一个问题 你从来没有 自由过问。
8What should I do today?今天怎么办?
9Now, your brain is already fighting this.现在,你的大脑已经与这个作斗争了。
10It's telling you no.它告诉你没有。
11Ancient life was brutal, short, and desperate.古代的生活是残酷、短暂和绝望的。
12Every second was survival.每一秒钟都是生存。
13That's what everyone believed.人人都这么认为
14For centuries, that was the official story.几个世纪以来,这是正式的故事。
15But the proof that it's wrong was lying buried in the ground the entire time.但证明这是错误的 一直埋在地里
16And when scientists finally dug it up, it flipped everything upside down.当科学家们终于把它挖出来, 它把一切都翻了过来。
17And that opens up a mystery.这打开了一个谜。
18Because you live surrounded by machines built to save time.因为你住在周围的机器 用来节省时间
19Washing machines, dishwashers, microwaves, cars, every one of them was invented to give you more free hours.洗碗机、洗碗机、微波炉、汽车 每一个都发明出来 让你有更多的空闲时间
20So how does a man with none of that, no technology at all, end up with more free time than you?那么一个没有技术的人 怎么会有比你更多的空闲时间呢?
21What did he actually do all day that you can't?他整天都做什么你做不到的事吗?
22And where did all of your time go?你所有的时间都去了哪里?
23To answer that, we have to start in the ground.为了回答这个问题,我们必须从地面开始。
24Because somewhere in the Middle East, archaeologists are digging.因为在中东的某个地方,考古学家正在挖掘。
25And over the years, from the same region, they pull up two human skeletons.多年来,他们从同一个地区 拔出两个人类骨架。
26They lived a few thousand years apart.他们分居了几千年
27That's close enough to compare them, but far enough that they come from two completely different worlds.这足以比较它们,但远远足以使它们来自两个完全不同的世界。
28The first skeleton is tall.第一个骨架是高的。
29The bones are thick and strong.骨厚而坚.
30The teeth are worn, but healthy.牙齿被磨损,但健康。
31Almost no cavities.几乎没有腔.
32The joints are clean.关节清净.
33This was a body that ate well, moved in varied ways, and never got ground down by one repeated motion.这是一个吃得好, 以不同的方式移动, 从来没有被一个反复的运动 倒下来。
34The second skeleton tells a harder story.第二个骨架讲述了一个更难的故事.
35齿满齿ities.
36The spine shows arthritis.脊椎显示关节炎.
37The specific damage you get from bending and grinding through the same motion, thousands of times, year after year.通过同一运动弯曲和磨磨得到的具体损伤,上千次,年复一年.
38And this person died younger.这个人死得更年轻
39So which one is which?那么哪一个是什么?
40Take a guess.猜猜看,你觉得呢?
41Most people point to the tall, healthy skeleton and say that's the modern one.大多数人指向高大,健康的骨架,说这就是现代骨架.
42The farmer with tools and stored food and a roof over his head.农夫拿着工具,储存着食物,头上有一个屋顶.
43And the short, broken one.和短,破一个。
44That must be the caveman, the guy scraping by in the wild with a spear.一定是那个洞穴人 那个拿着长矛在野外乱刮的人
45But it's the opposite.却与么反.
46The strong skeleton belonged to the hunter-gatherer.坚固的骨架属于猎人-采集者.
47The wrecked one belonged to the farmer, the person from the era we call progress.残骸是农民的, 我们称之为进步时代的人。
48And this isn't one weird pair of bones.这不是一对奇怪的骨头。
49Archaeologists have run this comparison at sites all over the world.考古学家在世界各地的遗址都进行了这种比较.
50And wherever farming replaced hunting and gathering, the same pattern shows up in the ground.而凡农耕取代狩猎和采集的地方,同样的模式出现在地面上.
51Generations got shorter than the ones before them.几代人比以前还矮
52Their teeth rotted, their spines wore down, and their lives ended earlier.他们的牙齿腐烂,脊椎磨损,生命提前结束.
53Think about what that means.想想这是什么意思
54Your skeleton is a diary.你的骨架是日记
55It records how hard you worked, how well you ate, how your body was used, and it holds that record for thousands of years.它记录了你是如何努力工作,你吃得如何,你的身体是如何使用的,它保存了几千年的记录.
56And the diaries say the people with nothing but spears were living easier lives than the people who came after them with farms, storage, and villages.日记上说,只有长矛的人 比那些带着农场、仓库和村庄追赶他们的人 生活得容易。
57But bones can only tell you so much.但骨头只能告诉你这么多。
58They can prove the work was lighter.他们可以证明工作很轻松
59They can't show you how a normal day actually went.他们不能告诉你 正常的一天是怎样的。
60So let me walk you through one.让我带你穿过一个。
61You wake up at dawn on your own, because your body got the sleep it needed.你在黎明醒来的时候独自一人 因为你的身体得到了它需要的睡眠
62The fire from last night is still burning in the middle of camp.昨夜大火仍在营中烧.
63And people are already sitting around it, eating leftover meat and nuts, talking about where the water is good and where the animal tracks were spotted.人们已经坐在它周围, 吃剩下的肉和坚果, 谈论水是好的, 和动物的踪迹在哪里被发现。
64That's the whole morning plan.这就是整个早上的计划。
65And when it's decided, it's decided by everyone.且当决定时,皆由众生决定.
66And today, nobody needs to hunt.今天,没有人需要狩猎。
67The last hunt was two days ago, and there's still plenty of food.最后一次狩猎是两天前,仍然有大量的食物.
68So a few people go out to gather plants, and you spend the morning on your tools.所以有几个人出去采集植物, 你早上花在工具上。
69You sharpen your spear, and you work a stiff hide until it turns soft.你磨磨你的长矛, 你工作一个僵硬的皮,直到它变软。
70You do this because skill earns respect here, not because someone told you to.你这样做是因为技能在这里赢得了尊重,而不是因为有人叫你这样做.
71And by early afternoon, everything that needed doing is already done.到了下午,所有需要做的事情都已经完成了。
72Two days later, the meat runs low, so today you hunt.两天后,肉量减少,所以今天你猎杀。
73And real hunting looks nothing like the movies.真正的狩猎看起来不像电影
74You never chase the animal, because it's faster than you, and it always will be.你从不追赶动物,因为它比你快,它永远是。
75Instead, you follow it at a steady walking pace for hours.相反,你沿着它稳步走动 几个小时。
76Your body can sweat and cool itself while it moves.你的身体在运动时可以汗出和冷却自己.
77The animal can't, so it keeps sprinting, keeps overheating, and keeps getting weaker until it finally collapses and you walk up to it.动物不能,所以它不停地冲刺,持续过热,并且不断变弱,直到它最终崩溃,你走到上面.
78You were never the fastest thing out there.你从来都不是最快的人
79You were the only thing that never has to stop.你是唯一永远无法停止的
80The hunt takes the whole day, and it's the hardest work this life asks of you.猎杀要花一整天时间 这一辈子最难熬的工作
81But one good hunt feeds the camp for days, so tomorrow the free time starts again.但一次好猎食喂养了营地几天 所以明天自由时间重新开始
82And at this point, you're probably thinking this sounds too good to be real.此时此刻,你可能认为 这听起来太好 真实。
83It sounds like a fantasy someone invented about the past.听起来像是有人发明了过去
84So, let's deal with that, because one man had the exact same doubt, and he did something about it.所以,让我们来处理, 因为一个人有同样的怀疑, 他做了一些事情。
85In 1963, an anthropologist named Richard Lee walked into the Kalahari Desert on the edge of Botswana.1963年,一位名叫理查德·李的人类学家走进了博茨瓦纳边缘的卡拉哈里沙漠.
86It's one of the harshest places on Earth a human being can live.这是地球上最严酷的地方之一 一个人类可以生活。
87He went there to study the Juhoansi, one of the last groups still living the old way, hunting animals and gathering plants with no farms and no stores.他到那里学习朱胡安西族,是最后一批仍然过着老路的族群之一,狩猎动物和采集植物,没有农场和商店.
88Lee expected to find misery.李期望找到痛苦
89That was the official story in every textbook, that life before farming meant working every daylight hour just to barely survive.这是每本教科书中的官方故事, 农耕前的生活意味着每个白天工作小时都勉强生存。
90But instead of assuming it, he decided to count it.但他没有假设,而是决定数数.
91He followed people around with a notebook and a stopwatch, and he recorded how they spent every single hour, day after day, for weeks.他用笔记本和手表跟随人们,他录下了他们如何每时每刻,日复一日,持续数周的时间.
92Lee came back with a number that nobody believed.李带着一个没人相信的号码回来了
93These people were spending about 17 hours a week getting food.这些人每周要花大约17个小时去买食物。
94And that's not 17 hours a day.这不是每天17小时。
95That's 17 hours across the entire week, which comes out to about two and a half days of work.整个一周一共需要17个小时, 大约需要两天半的工作。
96Every hour after that belonged to them.之后的每一小时都属于他们
97For comparison, you'll cross 17 hours of work by Wednesday afternoon.相比之下,你将在周三下午完成17小时的工作。
98Now, maybe the Juhoansi were just one lucky group in one lucky spot.也许Juhoansi只是幸运的组合 在一个幸运的地方。
99That's a fair doubt, and scientists had it too.这是一个相当的怀疑, 科学家也有它。
100So they went and ran the same count on other groups still living the old way.因此,他们去运行 同样的计数 其他群体仍然 生活老路。
101They checked the Hadza in Tanzania, then the Ache in Paraguay, then the Martu in Australia.他们检查了坦桑尼亚的哈扎人,然后检查了巴拉圭的阿切人,然后检查了澳大利亚的马尔图人.
102Three groups on three different continents.三组在三大洲.
103And every single time, the answer came back between 15 and 20 hours a week.并且每一次,答案都会在每周15到20小时之间回来.
104That was the full cost of staying alive.这是活着的全部代价。
105But here's the part nobody tells you.但这里是没有人告诉你的部分。
106The most important hours in that whole week were not the hunting hours.那整个星期最重要的时间不是狩猎时间。
107They were the lazy-looking hours that came after.他们是懒惰的小时 之后。
108Because those hours were doing a bigger job than food.因为这些时间的工作比食物还重要
109It's afternoon, and the camp has slowed down.今午,营已缓.
110People sit in the shade and talk.人坐荫而谈.
111They play with the kids, and they groom each other,他们和孩子们玩, 和他们互相新婚,
112picking through hair while the conversation drifts.在谈话流逝的时候 挑头发
113Next to you, someone is drilling tiny holes through seashells to string into a necklace.在你旁边有人在钻小孔 通过海贝壳 串成一条项链
114Someone else is carving a design into a piece of bone,有人在把设计切成一块骨头
115and that design has no purpose at all except to look good.设计完全没有目的 除了看起来好。
116And this isn't a guess about how they filled their time.这不是一个猜测 他们是如何填充时间。
117At Blombos Cave in South Africa,在南非的布伦博斯洞穴
118archaeologists found shell beads that are over 70,000 years old.考古学家发现的贝壳珠有7万多年的历史.
119Small sea snail shells with holes carefully drilled through them made to be worn.小型的海螺壳,有孔仔细钻穿,制成磨损.
120The coast was a long walk from where these people lived.海岸是从这些人住的地方走出来的
121So someone made that trip, collected the shells, carried them home,所以有人去旅行 收集炮弹 带他们回家
122and then sat for hours drilling holes with stone tools just to make something beautiful.然后坐了好几个小时 用石头工具钻洞 只为了做点漂亮的东西
123And in 2008, in a cave in Germany,2008年 在德国的一个洞穴里
124researchers dug up a flute carved from a vulture's wing bone.研究人员从秃鹰的翅膀骨头上挖出一枝笛子.
125It's 40,000 years old, and it has five finger holes spaced for actual musical notes.它已有4万年历史,它有5个指孔间隙,用于实际的音乐音符.
126So someone in the Ice Age understood music well enough to build an instrument,所以冰河时代的某个人对音乐的理解 足以制造乐器
127and someone had enough free time to learn to play it.有人有足够的空闲时间学习演奏
128But the beads and the flute point at something bigger,但珠子和笛子 点在更大的东西,
129because this world has no money, no police, and no courts.因为这个世界没有钱 没有警察 没有法庭
130So ask yourself, what actually keeps you alive here when your hunt fails,所以问问你自己 猎杀失败时 是什么让你活着的
131or when you get sick, or when you break your leg and can't walk for a month?或者你生病了 或者你断了腿 不能走路一个月?
132The answer is other people.答案是别人。
133That's the entire safety net.这是整个安全网。
134If people like you, they feed you when you have nothing.如果像你这样的人 你一无所有 他们就会喂你
135But if they don't like you, then nobody owes you anything, and you starve.但是如果他们不喜欢你, 那么没有人欠你任何东西, 而你挨饿。
136So all those lazy afternoon hours of talking and joking and grooming所以,所有懒惰的下午时间 谈话,开玩笑和培养
137were actually an investment in the only insurance this world has.其实是投资 世界上唯一的保险。
138The anthropologist James Sussman found that Jew-Hawansi adults人类学家詹姆斯·苏斯曼(James Sussman)发现犹太人-哈万西人成年人
139spend around six hours every single day on pure social time,每天在纯社交时间上花费6小时左右,
140because in this world, your relationships are your bank account,因为在这个世界上 你们的关系是你的银行账户
141your hospital, and your pension, all at once.你的医院, 你的养老金, 一次。
142Then the sun goes down.则阳气下陷.
143And here's where it gets really interesting,在这里它变得非常有趣,
144because the best hours of the day haven't even started yet.因为今天最好的时间 还没有开始。
145In 2014, an anthropologist named Polly Weissner published a study2014年,一位名叫波利·魏斯纳的人类学家发表了一份研究报告.
146that might explain where human culture itself comes from.这也许可以解释人类文化本身来自何处。
147She had recordings of Jew-Hawansi conversations collected across decades,她有记录 犹太人-哈旺西的对话 收集了几十年,
148and she sorted all of them by one simple thing.她用一个简单的东西来整理所有的东西.
149Was it said during the day or at night?是白天还是晚上?
150The daytime talk turned out to be practical.白天的谈话结果是实用的.
151People discussed where the animal tracks were,人们讨论动物的踪迹,
152which plants were ready to gather, and who wasn't sharing fairly.植物已经准备好聚集, 而谁没有公平分享。
153It was basically logistics and gossip.这基本上是物流和八卦。
154But at night, around the fire, the talking changed completely.但到了晚上,在大火周围,说话完全变了.
155Eighty-one percent of the firelight conversation turned into stories.81%的火光对话变成故事.
156People told myths about how the world began,人们告诉神话 关于世界是如何开始的,
157tales of ancestors who did impossible things,传说祖先做了不可能的事
158and jokes that ran long into the dark.和长期陷入黑暗的笑话
159And notice what kind of stories these are.注意这些是什么故事。
160Gods and spirits, the past and the future,神灵,过去和未来,
161none of that comes out of a scared, hungry mind.这一切都不是来自一个害怕,饥饿的头脑。
162Those stories only show up when your stomach is full and your body is safe.那些故事只有在你肚子满了 身体安全的时候才会出现
163So the fire was doing more than cooking food and keeping predators away.于是大火不止于烹饪食物,让掠食者远离.
164It created the first hours in human history where the mind was completely free.它创造了人类历史上最初的几小时 心灵完全自由
165And Weissner argued that this is exactly where culture was born,而魏斯纳认为,这正是文化诞生的地方,
166not in the middle of the work, but in the quiet hours after it.不是在工作中间, 而是在它之后的安静时间。
167And when the fire burned low, even sleep worked differently.而当火烧得很低时,甚至睡眠效果也不同.
168Before artificial light existed, humans didn't sleep in one long block.在人工光线存在之前,人类并没有在一个长的街区内睡觉.
169Historical records and modern sleep experiments both show the same pattern.历史记录和现代睡眠实验都显示出相同的模式.
170People slept about four hours, then woke up for an hour or two in the middle of the night,人们睡了四个小时 然后半夜醒来一两个小时
171and they stayed calm in that darkness,他们在黑暗中保持冷静,
172thinking or talking quietly until sleep came back for another four hours.静静地思考或说话 直到睡眠又恢复了四个小时
173That quiet hour in the middle was completely normal for thousands of generations.中间那个安静的小时是成千上万代人完全正常的。
174Today you wake up at 2 a.m. and call it insomnia.今天你凌晨2点醒来 称之为失眠症
175Your body might just be doing the oldest thing it knows.你的身体可能只是做它知道的最老的事情。
176So now you've seen the whole picture.所以,现在你看到了整个画面。
177Food took a few hours, people took the afternoon, stories took the night,食物花了几个小时,人们下午,故事夜里,
178and sleep came in two calm halves.睡了两半
179That was the human schedule for hundreds of thousands of years.这是人类数十万年的日程
180Then, about 10,000 years ago, somebody planted a seed,大约一万年前 有人种了种子
181and that's the moment your time started disappearing.这就是你开始消失的时刻
182It happened in the Middle East, in a region called the Fertile Crescent,发生在中东地区 一个叫"发酵新月"的地区
183when humans started planting grain and keeping animals instead of hunting and gathering.当人类开始种植谷物 养殖动物而不是狩猎和采集
184And on paper, farming sounds like a massive upgrade.而在纸面上,农业听起来像是大规模升级.
185You get more food, you get control, and you never have to follow an antelope for six hours again.你得到更多的食物,你得到控制,你再也不用跟随羚羊6小时了.
186But farming is a trap.但农耕是一个陷阱。
187And here's exactly how it snaps shut.这就是它如何关闭。
188Farming produces more food.农耕生产更多的粮食.
189More food means more babies survive, so the population grows.更多的食物意味着更多的婴儿存活下来,因此人口增长.
190A bigger population needs more food, so you plant more fields.更多的人需要更多的食物,所以你种植更多的田地。
191More fields means more work.更多的田地意味着更多的工作.
192And then the lock clicks.然后锁点击。
193Once your group is too big to feed by hunting and gathering,一旦你的团队太大 无法通过狩猎和采集来养活
194the old life can't carry you anymore.旧生活已经无法承受你了
195You can never go back.你永远不能回去。
196You're in, permanently.你是永远的。
197And so is every generation born after you.在你之后出生的每一代人也一样
198And the workload explodes.工作量会爆炸
199Now there's plowing, planting, weeding, harvesting, storing, and guarding it all.现在有耕耕,种植,杂草,收割,贮藏,守护一切.
200Season after season, forever.季节又一个,永远。
201And remember the second skeleton from the beginning.并记住第二骨架 从一开始。
202The one with the rotten teeth and the worn-out spine that died young.牙齿腐烂 脊椎老化 死年轻。
203That skeleton is what this new life did to people.这个骨架就是这种新生活对人们所做的.
204The first farmers worked harder and lived worse than the hunter-gatherers before them.最早的农民比他们之前的狩猎采集者更努力,生活更糟糕.
205And they couldn't leave.他们不能离开
206And the trap kept tightening.陷阱不断收紧。
207Big farming villages produced specialists, potters, toolmakers, weavers.大农村生产专家,陶工,工具匠,织工.
208Specialists needed trade, and trade built cities.专家需要贸易,贸易需要建设城市。
209Then cities brought soldiers, priests, and tax collectors.之后,各城市都带来了士兵,牧师,以及收税者.
210And eventually they brought a brand new idea in human history.最终他们带来了人类历史上全新的思想.
211For the first time ever, your hours could belong to someone else.第一次,你的时间可能属于别人。
212Sold off in exchange for food you no longer knew how to find on your own.卖掉以换取食物 你不再知道如何自己找到。
213So nobody stole your time in one dramatic night.所以,没有人偷走你的时间在一个戏剧性的夜晚。
214It was traded away slowly, one generation at a time,它被慢慢交易掉 一代又一代
215in a deal that no one alive today ever got the chance to refuse.在一个交易中,今天活着的人从来没有机会拒绝。
216The alarm that screamed at you this morning is just the latest payment.今早对你大喊大叫的警报只是最新的付款
217For hundreds of thousands of years, humans worked 15 to 20 hours a week.数十万年来,人类每周工作15至20小时.
218And the skeletons in the ground prove it.且地中骨架证明.
219The afternoons went into craft and beauty, and the relationships that kept everyone alive.午后进入手艺和美貌,关系让所有人都活着.
220The nights went into firelight stories, where culture itself was born.夜晚进入了火光故事,文化本身诞生的地方.
221And sleep came in two calm halves.睡了两个平静的一半。
222Then farming arrived, the population trap locked behind us,然后,农业到达, 人口陷阱锁定在我们身后,
223and step by step, our hours stopped being ours.一步一步地 我们的时间不再是我们的了
224Today, you'll spend about 90,000 hours of your life working.今天,你会花 大约90,000小时你的生活工作。
225You make art only if there's anything left of you after your job.只有在你工作完之后 你才能做艺术
226They made art in the middle of an ordinary afternoon.他们在一个平凡的下午做艺术。
227You network for career advantage.职业优势的网络
228They spent six hours a day with people they loved, and it counted as survival.他们每天花六个小时和他们爱的人在一起,这算作生存.
229You chase success, savings, retirement, some finish line where you finally get your time back.你追求成功,储蓄,退休, 一些终点线 你终于得到了你的时间回来。
230They were already standing on that finish line.他们已经站在终点线上
231They were born on it.他们出生在它。
232Every morning, they woke up with no alarm and no schedule.每天早上,他们醒来时没有警报,也没有时间表。
233And they asked themselves the one question you have never been free enough to ask.他们问自己一个问题 你从来没有自由过问。
234You are working your entire existence to someday retire into that life.你为了过上那种生活而努力
235They lived it from their first day to their last.他们从头到尾都活下来了
236And they would find it very strange that you traded it all away for a screaming alarm and a promise.他们会觉得很奇怪 你为了一个尖叫的警报和保证而把它全卖掉
237You are working your entire existence to someday retire into that life.你为了过上那种生活而努力
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