As a result of all of this creeping fatalism in public life, we here, particularly in America today, have depressingly low levels of civic knowledge, civic engagement, participation, awareness.
社会上这种无可救药的宿命论的结果就是， 尤其在当今的美国， 我们，对公民教育、公民参与以及公民意识，知之甚少。