democracy seems, so Plato is suggesting,

柏拉图提到民主似乎
they stand in danger of devaluing people who are prepared to stand alone,

他们有消解打算独立生活的人的价值的危险
of rugged individualists who will go down with the ship if need be.

或是低看那些准备玉石俱焚的个体
It is precisely this kind of creeping conformism,

正是这种亦步亦趋盲从因袭
this kind of easy going toleration, this sort of soft nihilism

这种轻易妥协和某种温和无政府主义
that democracies tend to foster in which not only Plato,

民主制培养的不止有柏拉图
but modern thinkers like Emmerson, and Tocqueville,

还有思想家如爱默生托克维尔
and Mill, John Stewart Mill, very much warned about.

和密尔约翰?斯图亚特?密尔大力劝道
What bothers Socrates most about our democracy

关于我们的民主最使苏格拉底烦恼的是
is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between

一种特定的不稳定性他趋向于
extremes of anarchy,

在无政府的极端中撕扯
between lawlessness and tyranny.

在目无法纪与专制之间