2024届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案 理想话题

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜万物皆“卷”的时代，我们还要谈理想吗？ 如今这个什么都能“卷”的时代，我们在生活中处处面临竞争的压力。心理学上将人格特征分为A型和B型，A型人紧迫感强，具有强烈的竞争心和攻击性，B型人则恰好相反。如今整个社会的发展趋势似乎都在推动A型行为的增加。当人生被比作一场“升级打怪”、成王败寇的残酷游戏，我们从中获得了什么，又丢失了什么？读完今天这篇文章，也许你会在只属于自己的人生故事中找到答案。 Is Life a Story or a Game? By David Brooks I'm a liberal arts type, so I see life as a story. Each person is born into a family. Over the course of life, we find things to love and commit to — a vocation, a spouse, a community. At times, we flounder and suffer but do our best to learn from our misfortunes to grow in wisdom, kindness and grace. At the end, hopefully, we can look back and see how we have nurtured deep relationships and served a higher good. Will Storr, a writer whose work I admire enormously, says this story version of life is an illusion. In his book "The Status Game," he argues that human beings are deeply driven by status. Status isn't about being liked or accepted; it's about being better than others. Even when we are trying to do good, Storr asserts, we're playing the "virtue game," to show we are morally superior to others. I think Storr is in danger of becoming one of those guys who give short shrift to the loftier desires of the human heart, to the caring element in every friendship and family, and then says, in effect, we have to be man enough to face how unpleasant we are. But I have to admit, the gamer mentality he describes pervades our culture right now. Social media, of course, is a status game par excellence, with its likes, its viral rankings and its periodic cancel mobs. The status-mad world that Storr describes is so loveless — a world I recognize but not one I want to live in. Ultimately, games are fun, but gaming as a way of life is immature. Maturity means rising above the shallow desire — for status — that doesn't really nourish us. It's about cultivating the higher desires: The love of truth and learning and not settling for cheap conspiracy theories. The intrinsic pleasur