Take, for example, the proposed new constitution presented this month in Chile. With 110 articles in its chapter on “fundamental rights and guarantees” it is a detailed blueprint for an ideal society in which no one is discriminated against and everyone enjoys equality, though some more than others. It guarantees everyone the right, among other things, to “neurodiversity”, to “the free development” of “the personality, identity and life projects” and to “leisure, rest and the enjoyment of free time”.

blueprint：n. 藍圖

discriminated against：區别對待

guarantee：v.保證

neurodiversity：神經多樣性

科普：神經多樣性是指思維方式和癖好或性取向不同于常人。

拿智利本月的新憲法提議為例。在110個關于“公民基本權利和保障”的條款中，描述的盡是對理想社會的美好藍圖。其中大多條款是：不會被區别對待；保證人人平等。而另外一些則是：保障公民神經多樣性的權利；保障公民的人格、身份及人生規劃自由發展的權利；保障公民休閑娛樂和自由消遣的權利。

The yearning for Utopia is a response to the injustices and inequalities of Latin American societies. But it may make those problems worse. Utopia slides all too easily into a dystopia of poverty and police states, as has happened in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua and Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela. Even where it doesn’t, it can lead to frustration and reaction, as may be Chile’s fate.

yearn for：渴望

dystopia：n.反烏托邦

reaction：n.反作用

police state：警察國家（需依靠警察力量維持政治統治）

拉丁美洲社會的不公正、不平等引發了人們對烏托邦的渴望。但是這或許會讓情況更糟。烏托邦會很容易墜入貧困且極權制的反烏托邦國家（如古巴、尼加拉瓜、委内瑞拉）。就算沒那麼糟糕，也會引起不滿和反作用，這或将是智利的命運。

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文章來源：The Economist

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