英語検定ライティング準１級（第340回）

不確定「安定と安心は人類の敵だという話」

公務員は給料が安定している。収入が多いわけではないが景気の良し悪しに左右されない。景気の良い時は損した気持ちになるが悪い時には得をしたような気持ちになる。つまり近い将来が不確定ではない。冒険が少ない分だけワクワク感もないが。
There are various types of public employees working for ordinary citizens in our society, whose income might be stable, not large, but they feel unprofitable when the economy functions well, and vice versa, in short, they feel profitable when the economy doesn’t work well.
After all, whether the economy is successful or not couldn’t make a significant and important difference.
They cannot gain something uncertain in the near future.
Simultaneously, they cannot feel excited because they are unlikely to encounter what is adventurous, he says.

日本社会は不確定を楽しむという感覚に乏しいと言われる。農耕民族だからだろうか。農業にも不確定要素は多い。かんばつや洪水で計画は崩れる。技能実習生崩れが収穫期を狙って盗難を働く。自然災害なら諦めもつく。人災は投獄されるべきだ。
Japan’s society has failed to provide us with the sense that ordinary citizens should enjoy something uncertain, which might be caused by its peculiar culture that our ancestors had an agricultural life instead of hunting animals, in short, they could always be fed on food kept and stocked in the warehouses, on the other hand, people without agriculture had to dispense with nothing to eat when they couldn’t find any victims and sacrifices.
But it doesn’t mean that people engaged in agriculture don’t have anything uncertain because their future plan would collapse when they encounter the droughts and floods, sometimes, they have someone steal what they have grown as something commercial during the vital harvesting term, but they cannot fail to give up when natural disasters hit on their fields because weather conditions should be beyond their predictions, he says.
However, the criminals are the fake technical trainees.
Human-made disasters should be prisoned into the jail.

不確定要素を楽しめない人間は突然の不幸に動揺するだけだ。大恐慌をサバイバルするのに何をすればいいのかという議論をすればいい。マイナスなことが起きることを前提にして生きる時に確定要素は排除される。社会は常に変化を続けるからだ。
When we cannot enjoy something uncertain, we wouldn’t fail to find ourselves confused in the case of sudden misfortunes, in short, we might suffer from the messy chaos.
What matters the most might be that we should discuss what we should do in order to survive and overcome the deadly, lethal, frightening and catastrophic recessions.
We should have the premise that something serious never fail to occur in the near future when we could eliminate something certain from our brains, we assume.
Time flies, at the same time, our society always changes.