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Original Text

This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. Manners- simple things like saying "please" and "thank you" and knowing a person's name or asking after her family-enable two people to work together whether they like each other or not. Bright people, especially bright young people, often do not understand this. If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
Comparing your expectations with your results also indicates what not to do. We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre.

Translation


わかりきったことなのだがマナーが大事なのだ。「すみません」とか「ありがとう」との言葉、人の名前を覚える、家族の様子を聞く、そういった簡単なことだ。これがお互い、好き嫌いは別として二人の人間が一緒にやって行けくことができる条件だ。頭のいいといわれる人たち、特に若者がこれを理解していない。有望な仕事をしていても、仲間と一緒にやらなければならなくなったとたんに失敗の連続、ということだったらたぶんそれは礼儀を欠いた結果だろう。つまりマナーの欠如だ。また、予期したこととその結果を比べるとなにをしてはいけないのかがわかる。
私たち皆にとって、才能もスキルもなく、そして月並みにさえなるチャンスもほとんどない分野が多い。

mura Japanese → English
Original Text

現代社会の統制とは18世紀の思想家ベンサムが考案したパノプティコン(全展望監視システム)の監獄を連想する。ドーム型の監獄の中心に看守塔を置き、360度監視出来る設計だ。面白い事に囚人は自分を監視する看守を見る事は出来ないし、常時監視している様に思う。

 現代社会はこのシステムに異変が起きているようなものである。もしかしたら、監視する側とされる側が入れ替わろうとしている感がある。国民が政府を、市民が公的機関を、そして患者や家族が医療機関をである。逆監視社会の到来といえよう。

Translation

The regimentation of the contemporary society reminds me of the prison of Panopticon (panoptical monitoring system) that was devised by Bentham, a philosopher in the 18th century. A watchtower is placed in the center of a doom shaped prison, and wardens can watch inside the prison with a 360-degree field vision. Interestingly, prisoners cannot see the wardens who watch them: they have a feeling that they are always watched.

The contemporary society is like the one in which a kind of deformation is occurring for its Panopticon-like system. We have a kind of feeling that, possibly, those who watch and those who are being watched are changing their positions with each other. That is, nation watches the government, citizens their official bodies, and patients and their family watch medical institutions. We may say that the society of reverse monitoring is coming.