Alan Watts used to say

 

西方世界有三类人：贵族，无产阶级和资产阶级。

贵族们生活在过去，因为他们来自贵族家庭，他们就像土豆，因为他们最好的部分是地下的。

无产阶级生活在现在，因为他们没有 别的东西。

可怜的资产阶级为未来而活; 他们是永恒的受骗者。他们总是可以相信一场骗局。因此，当他们发现最后人是要死的，人生并没有太多的未来时，他们将未来转变为精神世界。他们认为这个物质世界不是现实，而是精神世界才是现实世界 - 将来会有某种地方，某种程度上“我是永生的”。

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/84

You see—I tell you, there are three classes of people in the Western world: the aristocrats, the proletariat, and the bourgeoisie. The aristocrats live on the past, because they come of noble family, and they’re like potatoes because the best part of them is underground. The proletariat live in the present, because they have nothing else. And the poor bourgeoisie live for the future; they are the eternal suckers. They can always open to a con game. So when they find out that, really, there isn’t much of a future, (Text sourced from https://www.organism.earth/library/document/tao-of-philosophy-8) you’re going to die, they transpose the future into a spiritual dimension. And they figure this material world is not the real world, but the spiritual world is the real world. And there will be, somewhere, somehow, an eternal life for me.

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