Block thinking is an age-old phenomenon, and we all do it to some degree. But, while in another age we might have been indulgent about its consequences, today it has explosive potential, because people who think in this manner are prime recruits for seeing the world in terms of Samuel Huntington’s theory of the “clash of civilizations.”
思维一律的现象早已有之，并且我们每个人都有某种程度的思维一律。但是，在另一个时代我们也许会很宽容它所带来的后果，今天它却可能带有爆炸性的潜在力量，因为以这种方式思考的人最有可能按照萨默尔·亨廷顿的“文明冲突论”的观点来看这个世界。