PUZZLE

The whole world is going, or has already gone, mad. I do not say this because of problems like the arms race, pollution and populasion explosion. These are bad enough, but i think now have a more serious problem: our desire make ourselves miserable by setting ourselves unnecessary problems, called puzzles. Dozen of magazines are published every month with names like The Puzzler, Enigmatic and Brain Teasers. They contain problems which you can do without, and solutions which do not make you feel any better.
The electronics industry is now cashing in on our strange need to set ourselves difficult tasks. Their computer games are even nastier, because the torture is not only mental but also pysical. Only a superman could keep up with the fast-moving dots which represent space invaders, or whatever they are suppose to be.
Where does it all start, and why do we do it? It starts when our well-meaning parents try to amuse, amaze and puzzle us with games like "I-SPY". Later the whole thing becomes more sinister, when these puzzles are used as test to see if we are clever enough or suitable for a particular course or job. And it ends on the bookstalls with those piles of puzzle magazines----usually with a pretty smiling girl on the front cover.
We have plenty of real problems to worry us, and yet we create artificial problems to enable us to be miserable in our spare time as well. Why all this misery? The reason is actually very simple: because of a huge cosmic mistake, we have been put, by accident, on the wrong planet. Out there somewhere, deep in space, is a beautiful planet where we should have been put, a much more peaceful place than ours, a place with no problems, either real or imagined. The sad thing is that it is probably inhabited by creatures who should have been put on the Earth. I bet they have a thriving puzzle book industry too!
这段PASSAGE是摘自老师发的一张考卷上的,看来看去看懂一点,不过其实还是没全看懂.特别是最后一段到底在讲什么一点也不清楚,尽管那些WORDS我都认识(金山词霸也发挥了相当力量)但是复杂的作者到底想诠释什么东西呢?还有就是貌似我本人的观点其实并不是太赞同作者的意见.所以想借次和大家讨论下.
欢迎博学的你们来次发表自己的观点!