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【中文标题】2012时代年度人物 － 抗议者（导言）
【原文标题】The Protester
【登载媒体】时代周刊
【原文作者】Rick Stenge
【原文链接】http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2101745_2102139,00.html
只有当回顾的时候历史才会浮现，只有当转身的时候事件才会意味深长。没有人能预料到，一个突尼斯水果小贩在一个地图上找不到的小镇自焚而引起的抗议行动，竟然推翻了突尼斯、埃及、利比亚的独裁政权，还让叙利亚、也门和巴林的上层建筑摇摇欲坠。也没有人能预料到，表达异见的精神让墨西哥人奋起反抗毒品大集团所制造的恐怖，让希腊人行走抗议不负责任的领导人，让美国人占领公共区域反对收入分配不均，让俄罗斯人和腐败的独裁政府针锋相对。总和人口达30亿的国家中出现了抗议者，报纸和网络中的抗议语言呈指数增长趋势，超过了历史上任何一个时期。
有这样一个全球公认的失望临界点吗？无论在哪里，人们似乎都在说他们受够了，他们要表达不懂意见，要提出要求；他们从不绝望，即使他们收到的回应往往是伴随着催泪瓦斯和枪林弹雨。他们真正地具象化了这个观点——个人的行动可以带来整体、大规模的变革。民主这个词，尽管在不同的国家有不同的理解，但它的精神出现在每一次集会中。democracy的词根是demos，也就是“民众”，民主的意思就是“人民做主”。他们的确做主了，如果不是在投票箱旁边，就是在街道上。美国是在抗议声中孕育出来的国家，抗议代表着民主——或者代表缺少民主。
抗议行为标志着新一代的崛起，埃及60％的人口在25岁以下。科技发挥了作用，但这并不是一场科技革命。社交网络不是活动的起因，但它让抗议得以延续。科技让我们可以看到，并且传播抗议的思想。这并不是狂欢式的革命，而是有良知的、发自内心的最古老的“科技”。
今年，各地的人们抱怨传统领导模式的无效和没有意义的机构设置。政客的目光看不到比下一次选举更远的地方，他们不愿意做出艰难的选择。这是我们今年没有选取某个个人的原因。但是领导权应当源自金字塔的底部，而不是顶端。为了明确、强调全球动荡前途的现状；为了颠覆政府和传统理念；为了结合最古老和最现代的科技来彰显人性的尊严；为了让我们的星球走上一条哪怕充满危险的21世纪民主道路，抗议者是时代2011年度人物。
原文：
History often emerges only in retrospect. Events become significant only when looked back on. No one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square in a town barely on a map, he would spark protests that would bring down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya and rattle regimes in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. Or that that spirit of dissent would spur Mexicans to rise up against the terror of drug cartels, Greeks to march against unaccountable leaders, Americans to occupy public spaces to protest income inequality, and Russians to marshal themselves against a corrupt autocracy.Protests have now occurred in countries whose populations total at least 3 billion people, and the word protest has appeared in newspapers and online exponentially more this past year than at any other time in history.
Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it seems, people said they'd had enough. They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the answers came back in a cloud of tear gas or a hail of bullets. They literally embodied the idea that individual action can bring collective, colossal change. And although it was understood differently in different places, the idea of democracy was present in every gathering. The root of the word democracy is demos, "the people," and the meaning of democracy is "the people rule." And they did, if not at the ballot box, then in the streets. America is a nation conceived in protest, and protest is in some ways the source code for democracy — and evidence of the lack of it.
The protests have marked the rise of a new generation. In Egypt 60% of the population is under the age of 25. Technology mattered, but this was not a technological revolution. Social networks did not cause these movements, but they kept them alive and connected. Technology allowed us to watch, and it spread the virus of protest, but this was not a wired revolution; it was a human one, of hearts and minds, the oldest technology of all.
Everywhere this year, people have complained about the failure of traditional leadership and the fecklessness of institutions. Politicians cannot look beyond the next election, and they refuse to make hard choices. That's one reason we did not select an individual this year. But leadership has come from the bottom of the pyramid, not the top. For capturing and highlighting a global sense of restless promise, for upending governments and conventional wisdom, for combining the oldest of techniques with the newest of technologies to shine a light on human dignity and, finally, for steering the planet on a more democratic though sometimes more dangerous path for the 21st century, the Protester is TIME's 2011 Person of the Year.
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