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Taiwan does not lack critics, it lacks action takers

15/5/2014

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By Haoyan Chen, United Daily News
Taipei - 10 May 2014
Mr. Stanley C. Yen, Chairman of The Alliance Cultural Foundation, discusses how there are too many critics voicing out negative criticism in Taiwan, and encourages people to, instead, roll up their sleeves to take action to create positive impact on the country.

嚴長壽:台灣不缺批評 缺捲袖做事的人 

財團法人公益平台文化基金會董事長嚴長壽,昨天在中研院以「台灣改變的支點」為題演講。他表示,最近世事紛亂,他體悟到社會不缺批評的人、也不缺看到問題的人,連提出解決方法的人都有不少,「台灣真正缺的是願意捲起袖子做事的人,而你,就是改變的起點!」中研院昨天舉行院士季會,包括院長翁啟惠、前院長李遠哲、副院長陳建仁、王瑜等多位院士,都到場聆聽演講,聽到同意處還不時點頭、寫筆記,像上課一樣認真。

「我們一天到晚都在批評政府,讓台灣看起來好像沒什麼希望」,嚴長壽不否認,對政府的批評他也沒少過,不過當已看到許多問題,就覺得自己必須改變。

他自嘲罹癌手術割除膽、腎後,現在是「無膽一腎人」,但還是很想做事,於是走入偏鄉辦教育、試著帶來改變。

嚴長壽自認人生際遇的每一個改變、轉換的關頭,都不是在他最好的時候,可是最不好的時代,反而變成他最好的時機。

嚴長壽以台灣退出聯合國為例,當時大家都看不到未來,想離開台灣,「因為山中無老虎、都去美國了」;他一個沒念大學的失業小伙子,竟能進入美國運通台灣分公司工作,靠著敏銳的觀察力和用心,把工作做得更好,一路做到經理、旅館總裁。

嚴長壽也以「德國無速限的高速公路」帶出近日台灣的民主困境,他指出沒有速限的先決條件,是大家「守規矩、有默契、互相信賴」,車該在那一道就在那一道,超車道永遠是空的。

但是台灣民主只做一半,好像人們開車左右亂開,即使高速公路和別人一樣寬,「沒有默契和信賴,就會造成現在的挑戰。」

「開放的民主國家如果要有效運作,每個人都要謹守『在路上』的角色,和對方有相當的默契,才不會造成「『車禍』。」嚴長壽說。

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