我在芝加哥南区的生活中，一直呼吁人们关注我们正在失去的东西。我指出了枪支暴力的根本原因，设立了应对暴力的项目，直面帮派分子并促成他们休战，还帮助许多人融入主流社会，成为有生产力的公民。我创建了课后辅导项目来弥补我们日渐衰败的公立学校，这样孩子们就不会对生活失去信心。但最近，我一直在关注另一个可能同样危险的问题：智能手机。
In my time on the South Side of Chicago, I’ve asked people to look at what we’re losing. I have pointed out the root causes of gun violence, set up programs to counter it, confronted gangsters and brought them to truces, and helped many enter mainstream society as productive citizens. I’ve created after-school programs to counter our failing public schools so that kids won’t give up on themselves. But lately, I’ve been looking at another problem that may just be equally dangerous: the smartphone.
当你看着一部智能手机时，它看起来并不像是一个威胁。它看起来像是一个用于连接甚至创造机遇的工具。对于我社区里的许多年轻人来说，它确实如此——它是制作音乐、建立粉丝群体以及了解这个街区以外世界的一种方式。我不想否定他们的成就，因为有些人仅仅靠一部手机及其各种工具就建立起了真正的职业生涯。这是摆脱贫困的一条真正途径，我绝不想关上这扇门。但我无法忽视手机黑暗的一面。
When you look at a smartphone, it doesn’t look like a threat. It looks like a tool for connection and even for opportunity. And for a lot of young people in my neighborhood, it has been exactly that — a way to make music, create an online following and learn about worlds outside of this block. I don’t want to discount what they have done because some have built real careers with nothing but a phone and its many tools. That’s a genuine way out of poverty, and I have no desire to shut that door. But I can’t ignore the dark side of the phone.
美国曾嘲笑阿米什人和其他群体抵制科技的做法。也许他们是对的。我觉得我们当中很少有人真正意识到手机的强大威力。我曾看过一部纪录片，上面说当年把人类送上月球所需的全部计算机算力，如今都存在于我们手里这部小小手机中。我不知道这是否属实，但手机的威力毋庸置疑。它将整个世界呈现在一个孩子的指尖。
AMERICA MOCKED THE AMISH AND OTHER GROUPS OVER TECHNOLOGY. MAYBE THEY WERE RIGHT What I feel is that far too few of us acknowledge the full power of the phone. I once watched a documentary that said the power of all the computers needed to put the first man on the moon now existed in our tiny little phones. I don’t know if that’s true, but there is no doubt about the phone’s power. It puts the entire world at a kid’s fingertips.
我看到智能手机产生最具毁灭性影响的地方，是钻头说唱（drill rap）的世界，这种音乐发源于奥布洛克（O-Block），我的教堂和社区中心就坐落于此。钻头说唱意味着“杀戮说唱”。其中一些是对全国大部分地区从未见过的生活的真实叙述。但其中一部分已经变成了武器。
Where I’ve seen the most devastating impact of the smartphone is in the world of drill rap, which began on O-Block, where my church and community center sit. Drill rap means "kill rap." Some of it is honest storytelling about a life that most of the country has never seen. But some of it has become a weapon.
过去那些发生在街角的暴力冲突，如今都转移到了直播平台上。当某个直播团队为了“挑战”而选择在错误的社区进行拍摄时，系统就会自动显示该地点的信息。这种“地点信息的显示”其实并非意外，而是一种挑衅行为——仿佛在说：“来抓我们吧！”
Fights that we used to see on corners have now moved onto livestreams. What happens is that a location tag is then dropped. Sometimes it’s dropped when a drill rap crew chooses to film in the wrong neighborhood as a dare. This dropping of a location is not an accident but a challenge: Come and get us.
印第安纳州的共和党参议员提议采取措施，阻止儿童接触网络色情内容。结果，有些孩子一边观看这些直播，一边听着说唱音乐，一边等待着枪声的响起。一旦枪声响起，往往就得由我或附近的牧师来为受害者主持葬礼；我们还得派遣专门的团队前往医院和受害者家庭，以防止进一步的报复性枪击事件发生。而这一切，都只是通过那些被10岁、12岁、14岁或17岁的孩子们手中的手机直播出来的。
INDIANA REPUBLICAN SENATOR MOVES TO BLOCK KIDS FROM ACCESSING PORN ONLINE So we have kids watching these livestreams, half listening to the rap and half waiting for that burst of gunfire to come. When the latter happens, it is me or one of the nearby pastors who has to host the funeral. We then have to send our violence impact teams to the hospitals and homes of families to prevent retaliatory shootings. All from a livestream playing out on the phones of 10-, 12-, 14- and 17-year-olds.
同样的手机，既可以培养出有才华的年轻艺术家（有些孩子确实非常出色），也可能让他们走上犯罪的道路。发生枪击案后，警方和检察官会仔细审查所有直播内容，直播中的任何评论都可能被视为犯罪者的“供词”；因此，一些孩子因此被关进了监狱。
So the same phone that can build a young artist up — and, man, some of these kids are so talented — that same phone can bring them down. When there is a shooting, the police and prosecutors comb through all these livestreams, and any comments may be treated as confessions. Whatever you think of this legal strategy, some of these kids get locked up.
手机带来的问题不仅限于街头——家长们也在家中面临着同样的困扰。即使在那些与帮派或说唱文化毫无关系的家庭中，孩子们也根本无法放下手机。他们在还来不及建立健康的人际关系之前，就已经能够接触到色情内容了。我们的社区早已不再重视传统的恋爱教育方式；过去几十年里，我们一直生活在一种“随意交往”的文化环境中。那么，当一个被色情内容影响的孩子遇到异性时，他们会怎么想呢？
But the phone isn’t only a problem on the streets. Parents here struggle with the problem of the phone in their homes. I see this in good families that are far removed from the life of gangs or drill rap. Their kids simply cannot put the phone down. Kids can access pornography even before they’ve had a chance to form healthy relationships. Our communities don’t teach courtship much anymore, and for the last several decades, we’ve lived in this hookup culture. So what does a child wired by pornography think when he or she encounters the other sex?
父母们经常对我说同样的话，而令我震惊的是，他们的措辞竟如此相似。大致是这样的：“我不知道该怎么把手机从孩子手里拿走。感觉就像我在终结他们的世界。我甚至不知道自己有没有这个权威。他们告诉我，如果我这么做，就是在切断他们的联系。这只会变成一场无休止的斗争。”Meta针对青少年的新限制措施对年轻人意味着什么。
Parents often tell me the same thing, and I’m struck by how similar the wording is. It goes something like this: "I don’t know how to take the phone away from my child. It’s like I’m ending their world. I don’t know if I even have the authority to do it. They tell me that if I do, I’m cutting them off. It just becomes an endless battle."
现实是，手机往往变成孩子用来对抗父母权威的武器。我听过孩子们对父母说，他们比父母更聪明。这不过是一种幻觉。当孩子在和父母争论时用谷歌搜索或使用人工智能，这与学习或真正思考争论本身不是一回事。那是用机器替自己说话。而这样做的最终结果是，孩子不再尊重父母的权威和知识。
WHAT META'S NEW TEEN RESTRICTIONS MEAN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The reality is that the phone often turns into a weapon that the child uses against the authority of the parent. I’ve heard kids tell their parents that they are smarter than them. That’s nothing but an illusion. When a child Googles or uses AI while arguing against a parent, that’s not the same thing as learning or processing the actual argument. That’s using a machine to speak for oneself. And what this ultimately does is stop the child from respecting the authority and knowledge of the parent.
父母并不总是对的，但手机剥夺了孩子和父母共同化解这种误解的过程，进而削弱了他们关系的根基。
Parents are not always right, but the phone deprives the child and parent of the process of working through that misunderstanding and, in turn, weakens the fabric of their relationship.
这才是真正的危机。不是技术本身——而是成年人对其设定限制的能力正在被侵蚀。
That’s the real crisis. Not the technology itself — the erosion of the adult’s ability to set a limit on it.
解决办法不是禁令。我呼吁的是一场文化转变。我们需要回归父母曾经视为理所当然的基本权威。是的，晚上把手机拿走。是的，对手机设限。是的，告诉你的孩子坐在桌边做作业。去教堂。说话时看着别人的眼睛。让他们面对现实，而不是屏幕。
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The solution is not a ban. What I’m calling for is a shift in the culture. We need to return to the basic authority that parents used to take for granted. Yes, take that phone away at night. Yes, put limits on the phone. Yes, tell your child to sit at the table and do homework. Go to church. Look people in the eye when talking. Make them look at reality instead of a screen.
我们需要做的一件事就是支持这些父母。我们这些构成这个社区的成年人必须呼应这种对手机的抵制，这样孩子们就会明白，不只是他们的父母，而是整个社区都在抵制。
And one thing that we need to do is support these parents. We adults who make up this community must echo this pushback against the phone, so the kids understand that it is not just their parents but the entire community pushing back.
在我的社区里，我们一直在与各种问题作斗争——从毒品问题到帮派犯罪。手机的问题可能更加棘手。但我想说的是：手机无法真正“爱”一个孩子；它只能通过复杂的算法来“观察”孩子。然而，真正需要陪伴和关爱孩子的人，必须是我们在场的人。
We have fought many problems in my community, from drugs to gangs. The phone may be even harder. But I’ll leave you with this thought: A phone cannot love a child. It can only hold their eyes through the trickery of the algorithm. But somebody has to be there to hold that child and to love that child, and that must be us.