Which English You Speak Has Nothing to Do With How Smart You Are
The title reminds me of a phrase I have heard and used before: how you speak doesn't determine how smart you are.
Which English You Speak Has Nothing to Do With How Smart You Are
The title reminds me of a phrase I have heard and used before: how you speak doesn't determine how smart you are.
hools raised their G.P.A. by 1.4 grade points, attendance by 21 percentage points, and credits earned by 23.
This reminds me of the documentary we watched "Precious Knowledge" (2012) and how there was an about 90% increase in graduation rates. This is important because we begin to shift from schooling to actual education and learning.
the best thing humans can do for their own education isparticipate in, and avoid interfering with, Nature’s way
This reminds me a lot of the Ecological Philosophy in Education and the consequenses of alienation from nature. One of them is that contibutes to the rates of physical and emotional illness
This synthetic construct that makes an ab-straction of ‘North Africa’ and relegates Africa to a sub-Saharan part of the continent,is, to borrow from Théophile Obienga, a ‘Eurocentric Africanism’
This reminds me of how settler-colonists attempt to create a stark divide between their culture and that of the indigenous people. Manufacturing social hierarchy and divisions play an important role in maintaining power throughout history.
Students are selected based on their visual spatial coordination. In 1927 Ladovsky established his black room - a laboratory for testing spatial perception (of angles, volumes, linearity etc.) using tools of his own design.
I would love to know what such an evaluation looked like! How do you test for spacial awareness? This reminds me of that Blokus or Tetris game I played as a child that required fitting items into various spaces. I wonder often why I didn't bother studying architecture after that.
If you ever need anyone, let me know.' I could just go into her classroom during lunch and talk it out with her. I still talk to her."
This passage reminds me of my 10th grade History teacher. He was my guide, support, and teacher all at once. When you have that support system you feel at ease and are able to do your work in a relaxed state of mind. Some situations have to be cut some slack from teachers because too much pressure could affect the students mental health.
Another key insight about friendship is that it’s all about upside risk. I will meet many, many more people in my life than I could ever sustain friendships with, let alone close friendships. Thus, if I am meeting new people and want to find potential close friends, I want to filter fast for compatible people. Further, compatibility is heavy-tailed - I won’t really vibe with most people, but some people are awesome. I want to explore and optimise for information. This pushed towards high-variance strategies. If I meet 100 people, and want to pursue a friendship with just a handful, this is great! This is a very, very different mindset from standard social norms, which push me towards being bland and inoffensive, and minimising the probability of bad interactions. A bad interaction (so long as it doesn’t damage my reputation) is just as useless as a mediocre interaction for finding potential friends. Instead I want to maximise the probability that, if someone is compatible with me, we have an awesome interaction. This is a key part of why I push for excitement and vulnerability - many people won’t vibe with that, but it makes it much more likely that I hit it off with the right kind of person.
Reminds me of "be polarizing" from Mark Manson's book, Models
35. Information-Action Ratio:The mark of useful info is that it makes us act differently. Most info we consume doesn't make us act differently; we just passively graze on it like cattle before defecating it undigested.Stop mindless scrolling and seek out info that changes you.
I should put this on my wall. This is probably one of the most important things I've been thinking about in the last couple of months and is why I'm so currently focused on designing a system that enables me to capture, resurface, and utilize the ideas I come across.
Reminds me of an article I read a couple years back with a salient question: "Of all the books you've read in the past year, how many of the things you learned did you actually use at some point in your life?" My answer to that question made me realize how much time I spend consuming things, but not actually using the information to improve my life, behavior, etc.
34. Promethean Gap:Technology is outpacing wisdom; we're changing the world faster than we can adapt to it. Lagging ever more behind accelerating progress, we're increasingly unable to foresee the effects of what we create. We're amassing the power of gods, yet we remain apes.
This reminds me of a Tim Urban piece about how unfortunate it is that out minds run on essentially the same hardware (our brain) as it did 10,000 years ago.
In reality, certain Protestant groups received the preponderance of such support, while Quakers, Catholics, and the few Jewish groups about were routinely excluded.
I wonder if the civic republicans were cognizant of the disconnect that existed between what they espoused (i.e., state support for all) and what ended up occurring (i.e., the categorical exclusion of certain religious groups). This situation reminds me of how, if I recall correctly, the following sentence from the Declaration of Independence -- "all men are created equal" -- was written with the implicit understanding that non-WASPs were excluded.
is the magistrate obliged to tolerate them, because they are committed in a religious assembly? I answer: No. These things are not lawful in the ordinary course of life, nor in any private house; and therefore neither are they so in the worship of God, or in any religious meeting. But, indeed, if any people congregated upon account of religion should be desirous to sacrifice a calf, I deny that that ought to be prohibited by a law. Meliboeus, whose calf it is, may lawfully kill his calf at home, and burn any part of it that he thinks fit. For no injury is thereby done to any one, no prejudice to another man's goods.
This reminds me a lot of the discussion we had on Tuesday, about religious practices that cause direct harm to others not being exempt from relevant laws. While Locke's example of an animal sacrifice is something that is legal for religion because it is legal in other contexts, it appears Locke would oppose some of the allowances/exceptions to law made for religious organizations.
government enforcement of a religiously based morality through positive law.
This reminds me of the Kuch opinion, where the Court viewed civic responsibility as a minimum requirement for something to be considered a "religion." Maybe that sentiment has Puritan/Civic Republican roots.
.In thelagoon I pass on the last leg of mywalk,a blueheron fliesawayin mild alarm and a flockofseagullsfollows,but a white egret and a whiteheron stay,steppingalong the shallows,andpelicanspursue their routineswith profoundindifference
this reminds me of when me and my friend on a family trip to florida were walking down a pier with the sun setting on the horizon and all of thebirds that lined the railings and the rock flew.
In the dense damp fog, onlythe rustling ofsmall birds in the bushes indicatesthat I am notalone as I walkalong the narrowtrail slicedintothe northwestside ofWolfRidgein mywaterproofcoat.
This idea from the author reminds me of my personal experiences from duck hunting. One sits in the marsh in the early morning while there is still fog. They can hear the ducks which reminds them that they are not alone.
Blog About Shared Future SOS Currency Public Blog About Shared Future SOS Currency Public Blog Follow @collabfund The Optimal Amount of Hassle May 19, 2021 SHARE ↓ by Morgan Housel @morganhousel Copy Link Steven Pressfield wrote for 30 years before publishing The Legend of Bagger Vance. His career leading up to then was bleak, at one point living in a halfway house because it had cheap rent. He once spoke about the people he met living there: The people in this halfway house, we used to hang out in the kitchen and talk all night long, were among the smartest people that I ever met and the funniest and the most interesting. And what I concluded from hanging out with them and from others in a similar situation was that they weren’t crazy at all. They were actually the smart people who had seen through the bullshit. And because of that, they couldn’t function in the world. They couldn’t hold a job because they just couldn’t take the bullshit, and that was how they wound up in institutions. The greater society thought, “Well these people are absolute rejects. They can’t fit in.” But in fact they were actually the people that really saw through everything. This may not have been Pressfield’s point, but it reminds of something I’ve long believed. If you recognize that BS is ubiquitous, then the question is not “How can I avoid all of it?” but, “What is the optimal amount to put up with so I can still function in a messy and imperfect world?” If your tolerance is zero – if you are allergic to differences in opinion, personal incentives, emotions, inefficiencies, miscommunication and such – your odds of succeeding in anything that requires other people rounds to zero. You can’t function in the world, as Pressfield says. The other end of the spectrum – fully accepting every incidence of nonsense and hassle – is just as bad. The world will eat you alive. The thing people miss is that there are bad things that become bigger problems when you try to eliminate them. I think the most successful people recognize when a certain amount of acceptance beats purity. Theft is a good example. A grocery store could eliminate theft by strip-searching every customer leaving the store. But then no one would shop there. So the optimal level of theft is never zero. You accept a certain level as an inevitable cost of progress. BS, in all its forms, is similar. A unique skill, an underrated skill, is identifying the optimal amount of hassle and nonsense you should put up with to get ahead while getting along. Franklin Roosevelt – the most powerful man in the world whose paralysis meant the aides often had to carry him to the bathroom – once said, “If you can’t use your legs and they bring you milk when you wanted orange juice, you learn to say ‘that’s all right,’ and drink it.” Every industry and career is different, but there’s universal value in that mentality, accepting hassle when reality demands it. Volatility. People having bad days. Office politics. Difficult personalities. Bureaucracy. All of them are bad. But all have to be endured to some degree if you want to get anything done.
This reminds me of "Work Somewhere Dysfunctional" article
Butwhat so many people—unfortunately so many educators and policymakers—fail to see is that if this is all you can do, then you can’t really read.
Reminds me of the Willsher reading about the winner of the French Scrabble competition who can't speak French. He simply memorized the French Scrabble dictionary.
“when… the cared-for is unable to respond in a way that completes the relation, the work of the carer becomes more and more difficult. Carers in this position need the support of a caring community to sustain them”(Noddings, 2012, p. 54).
Carework as intrinsically transactional... This realization isn't a bad thing. It reminds us that it really is best if we get our own supports in place before engaging in this.
Let’s say you have a goal like, “Spend more time with family (or friends)” … why do you need a goal like that in the first place? Without any judgment, it’s worth asking, Why aren’t you already doing that? Or another way to ask it: What will likely pull you away from that goal?
Reminds me of murphyjitsu or failure mode effect analysis
How, you wonder, can you be here, in place and at home in yourbody, and at the same time inhabit an atmospheric world that returnsthe body to you as a spectre? In that existential doubt lies the engine ofperception.
This idea ties to the subjectivity and objectivity as mentioned in class. Rather the objectivity and subjectivity of sensing and perception can exist simultaneously. It reminds me of the Daoist work of Zhuangzi. This work is comprised of various parables on natural and humanist reflections. A very fundamental principle of Daoism is the mimicry of nature as it exhibits the Dao, or the Way. One such parable depicts Zhuangzi and Huizi, a prime minister, strolling along a dam. Zhuangzi makes a comment that the minnows are so joyful as they "dart around where they please." Huizi rebuts saying "You are not a fish -- how do you know what fish enjoy?" Zhuangzi eventually concludes that he know what the fish enjoy simply by standing by the river. The parable gets at the subjectivity of his observations intertwined with the objectivity of the fish's actions. They are existing together much like the observation of a stars light and the objective luminescence of a star. It gets slightly at perspective but creates a fascinating tension between the objective and subjective. If you want to read the parable is is here: https://terebess.hu/english/tao/Zhuangzi-Burton-Watson.pdf on page 276.
namely,that light needs no eyes to exist; it only needs eyes to establish its relevance.
This reminds me of ideas from Maiello's article "Post-Media Virality." Such as humans being a medium for the Coronavirus. The virus does not need humans specifically to exist. But, without humans there would not be a nearly as large spread, and the virus itself would not be documented.
The painting appeals to us preciselybecause it both chimes with our experience of what it feels like to be underthe stars and affords us the means to dwell upon it - perhaps to discoverdepths in this experience of which we would otherwise remain unaware
This reminds me of writing, in this instance rhetoric and writing is rhetoric and art, as an affective composition in that the context, style, and signification of the art affects how we are both sensitive to and can sense how it feels to be under the stars and ponder the depths in the experience of being under the stars that one might otherwise be unaware of. This makes Gogh's art "matter" because of its style like metaphysical graffiti from Edbauer.
Up above, starstwinkle in a cloudless sky, while at ground level electric lamps shine throughthe windows of nearby houses .
This reminds me of the painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gough
Have them illuminate something about Europe or America inAfrica
Reminds me of a reading from Toni Morrison "Playing in the Dark," Europe has been created and sustained through the invention of Africa in the ways Wainaina ironically lays out.
Establish early on that your liberalism isimpeccable, and mention near the beginning how much you love Africa, how youfell in love with the place and can’t live without he
I find this reference to "establishing your liberalism" very interesting. It reminds me of Steve Biko's insistence that the paternalistic white "liberals," who suggested that they would liberate the black Africans of South Africa as opposed to the black Africans themselves, were just as detrimental to the anti-apartheid movement and development of Black Consciousness than the avowed racists and advocates of apartheid.
Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, whowanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of theWest.
I feel like this directly correlates to what I learned in AP World. Reminds me of concept of White Man's burden and how white people oversee non-White people's affairs because they thought they were less developed. How it was their "burden" to "save" those who weren't white.
It asks us to neglect why and how some African groups welcomed European intervention and embraced modern forms of rule, in part, as their escape from local colonial overlords or from certain ways of ordering life and thought in their original cultures.
This is an interesting point. It reminds me of a similar phenomenon in the European colonization of Latin America and North America: the pitting of enemy groups against each other and of those who were under rule against their rulers as a manipulative play to destabilize the regions so that the Europeans could then assert their will. What made me think of this in particular is the reference to an "escape from local colonial overlords."
chiqu-it-it-...-it-o
This reminds me of in Intro to Ling when we talked about different ways repetition is used in languages, like here it is used to emphasize a diminutive while in some languages repeating a word or morpheme performs a grammatical function like making it plural
author is reputed to be the father
This reminds me of Plato's Symposium that we read in lithum where Diotima speaks on men gaining immortality by "giving birth" to deathless works.
observer
reminds me of Paul Tran's "The Cave," to actualize the interaction of reader/observer/idea and to celebrate the grander idea which evolves from that
but he does so, one might say, as a guest
This reminds me of a the Inkheart series written by Cornelia Funke. At its heart is the idea that the stories continue even after the author has written the last page. In the first book, the fictional author of Inkheart (a book in the book of the same name) but is subject to the same dangers as other characters. He is in no way treated as royalty.
collaboration
This reminds me of my experience reading fragmented work, such as that of Sappho. The reader is forced to fill out certain parts in their head, collaborating on something that is eventually unique and more particular to the individual.
unreadability
I like this description of a Text, as often the most transcendent works of art are those that offend or provoke, rather than giving an easy feeling of enjoyment. This reminds me of the Brechtian idea of alienation, creating a piece that distances the audience, in turn getting them to engage and think about it.
holism,
This reminds me of Gestalt. In psychology gestalt means an organized whole is perceived to be greater than the sum of its parts
identify population events, like a population decline
This reminds me of situations like people getting cancer from certain pesticides or women being exposed to chemicals/substances that can cause birth defects, or the results of housing being too close to facilities that cause air pollution. I think I remember hearing of a town whose population declined due to widespread infertility. Something that falls under the molecular anthropology subfield?
By living with and observing the Trobrianders, he realized that their culture was not “savage,” but rather fulfilled the needs of the people.
This reminds me of the perspective most colonizing civilizations have of unknown cultures, like with the Native Americans and Caribbean tribes being described as "savages" simply for having different ways of life.
serious educational games requires an intense amount of technical and research resources to build and sustain as web browsers evolve and the use of mobile devices continues to increase
This kinda reminds me of the Oregon Trail where game-like, interactive methods for sharing information with students allows for a better understanding of the topic at hand. It seems like it has trended towards that as access to technology increased and became more normal to see in academic settings.
“Unfortunately, he is survived by none,” it observed.
this reminds me of seaworld and why it was petitioned to shut down
foster the types of learningencounters that are relevant to and effective for the learners of today
This reminds me of UDL and the videos we watched of teaching to the edges, not the average.
“Picking up a text, readers not only classify it and expect a cer-tain form, but also make assumptions about the text’s purposes, itssubject matter, its writer, and its expected reader
This reminds me of our discussion in class about considering our audience when we write. It's important to anticipate the audience's expectations and response.
The notion of compression adds far more nuance. Suppose a fictional character reminds me of my friend; by watching a movie, I feel like I’m hanging out with my friend, helping me to maintain that tulpa even if I haven’t seen them for years. So large social networks create tulpa externalities which can be positive or negative.
Heuristics
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idea of boundaries reminds me of divided powers
“like white people, black people come in all forms and shades,”
This reminds me of the style guide we looked at for the first assignment, one of the points being about inclusivity in language use. The "liberal feminist" boss obviously had a predisposition to believe that all black people fit a certain mold. Editors need to be careful to ensure that the words written by the author are inclusive and do not come off as limiting or discriminating.
dressed as “Native-Americans” for “fun.”
This reminds me of Thanksgiving Day "celebrations" in elementary school. I know my elementary school had students dress up as Native Americans and Pilgrims around Thanksgiving. While I don't think this practice is that common anymore (and of course, I don't agree with it), I don't think we should blame the children for taking part in the "festivities," as they do not know better. This situation, though, is completely different, because these adults have the capacity to make well-thought-out decisions for themselves.
Protestantism was always fundamentally on theoffensive, precisely because it knew how to make use of the expandingvernacular print-market being created by capitalism, while the Counter-Re-formation defended the citadel of Latin
This quote reminds me of the reading "An Introduction to Globalization" from last Thursday's class, in which they describe how "mass media" was able to "radically compress time and space." (Campbell, p. 9) It seems that Protestantism, enabled by the non-traditional use of the German language, was able to strike a mass market of consumers. This mass appeal and accessibility shortened the time expected for the scope of the spread of Protestant messaging.
Absurdity of salvation: nothing makes another style of con-tinuity more necessary.
Anderson argues that nationalism may be an attempt to create a faux immortality; you may die, but your nation will live on. Reminds me of soldiers who sacrifice themselves for their country. Also reminds me of specific laws that apply to people's property after death; inheritance taxes, intellectual property, patents, etc..
brainstorm
This reminds me of that sharkboy and lavagirl movie bro made minus's brain FART!!!!!!!!!
“fact” over and over, in a variety of settings,
Reminds me of how certain tropes/stereotypes repetitively appear in creative or entertainment media. When making new media, we should use the past history of other media to break these tropes and not pass them down.
Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking. There is little correlation between climate change denial and scientific literacy. But there is a strong correlation between climate change denial and political affiliation. That’s an extreme example, but everyone has views persuaded by identity over pure analysis.
Reminds me of the quote: "If you want to know where people stand, look where they sit."
Thus, while the memories of survivors can become part of the texts of history, historical narratives can often reshape personal memories
This statement is interesting in the context that it doesn't have to be applied to huge historical narratives; but our own historical narratives. More specifically, it reminds me of when a child goes through an event that they don't understand but are experiencing it first-hand, it is until as they grow older and begin learning the full story, they can look at their own memories from a different light. With victims experiencing horrible global events, at that moment only what they know is the forefront information. As time goes by and the horrible events are becoming exposed to their hidden schemes and executions, the victims can now bring an explanation to why they went through what they did, thus reshaping their memories.
“self-made kinship, chosen lineages, utopic futurity, exilic commitment, and rage at institutions that police the borders of the normal”
This section reminds me of Disney's The Owl House, an animated series created by a queer woman featuring a bisexual female lead in a same-gender relationship. Found family and rebelling against conformism are some of the central themes of the series; unfortunately, Disney had some issues with how explicitly queer the series was and cancelled it.
Omaticaya the Clan of the Blue Flute. In the film, the character Neytiri refers to the ancient history of the people as the “time of the First Songs.” And when it is time for Jake to choose a woman, the first one suggested by Neytiri is Ninat, “the best singer.”
This concept reminds me of Happy Feet. Choosing the best singer, the most expressive as a representative mate for the tribe.
Expansion is led by focus. By taking time to edit, carve up, and refactor our notes, we put focus on ideas. This starts the Great Wheel of Positive Feedback. All hail to the Great Wheel of Positive Feedback.
How can we better thing of card indexes as positive feedback mechanisms? Will describes it as the "Great Wheel of Positive Feedback" which reminds me a bit of flywheels for storing energy for later use.
And my mom is getting older now and I wish I had all the comments, posts, and photos from the past 14 years to look back on and reminisce. Can’t do that now.
This reminds me of, during the height of the iPod era, when someone I know was gifted* an non-Apple music player and some iTunes gift cards—their first device for their first music purchases not delivered on physical media. They created an iTunes account, bought a bunch of music on the Music Store, and then set about trying to get it onto their non-Apple device, coming to me when it wasn't going well trying to get it to work themselves. I explained how Apple had (at the time) made iTunes Music Store purchases incompatible with non-Apple devices. Their response was baffling to me:
Rather than rightly getting pissed at Apple for this state of affairs, they did the opposite—they expressed their disdain about the non-Apple MP3 player they were given** and resolved to get it exchanged for credit so they could buy a (pricier, of course) Apple device that would "work". That is, they felt the direct, non-hypothetical effects of Apple's incompatibility ploy, and then still took exactly the wrong approach by caving despite how transparently nefarious it all was.
Returning to this piece: imagine if all that stuff hadn't been locked up in the social media silo. Imagine if all those "comments, posts, and photos from the past 14 years" hadn't been unwisely handed over for someone else to keep out of reach unless you assimilated. Imagine just having it delivered directly to your own inbox.
* NB: not by me
* NB: not as a consequence for mimetic desire for the trendiest device; they were perfectly happy with the generic player before they understood the playback problem
The different approaches to research based on positivism or anti-positivism
This positivism and anti-positivism debate reminds me of psychology and how things often center around the concept of how so much of the field is dedicated to proving or disproving Freud.
Desegregation enhanced the long-term life chances of many African American students and rarely hurt white students, but the movement to complete or maintain it has largely been over for 2 5 years.
I have taken other education classes before and this reminds me the education segregation back to the 19 Century. The Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board all shown the history process how African Americans are fighting and protect their civil rights. In that case, inequalities in education never achieve real fair --- white race always share the top resources than other races in the United State in my point of view.
Similarly, it helps all children to have peers who take· school seriously, behave in ways that help them learn, and are backed by parents who have the resources to en-sure that schools satisfactorily educate their children.
This reminds me of the saying that you should choose your friends/close circle carefully. A lot can be said about yourself by examining who you are friends with, so if your friends are academic weapons, you likely have the same goals and mindset as them. The same goes for the opposite, if you have friends who don't take school as seriously as you, you may be influenced by their behavior to do the same. Therefore, by allowing students who are not as privileged access to the same education as those who are, you increase their chances of succeeding due to the influence of others.
but equity in funding has depended mostly on the intervention of the courts.
This quote reminds me of my high school situation. I come from a low-income school where we needed a lot of supplies. Recently, my high school received a bigger budget due to the interference and advocacy of several members of the community (me included). Thankfully, we received an equitable budget from several schools and were able to obtain better-quality items. But this would have not happened if it wasn’t for the intervention of the community while the courts do nothing.
who teaches only work by "great white men IS m -ep . . ing a political decision,
This reminds me of how history books are so often skewed to include only the "white side" of the story, to put it bluntly. History textbooks usually only talk about all the good that white people have done, ignoring all of the great achievements that people of color have also done. This erasure of history is so discouraging because younger generations only have white people to look up to as role models. Without representation of people of color doing great things, often people try so hard to BE white, and reject their own cultures due to the lack of representation, which is extremely sad and harmful.
This form of early tracking, or dividing children into labeled groups based on the teacher's designation of their skill level, seems innocent. What we know, however, based on mounds of research-most notably among them Rist's (1970/2000) study of same-raced children of various social classes-is that teacher and peer expectations for academic achievement (and their subsequent treatment of students) are based largely on low and negative perceptions of the poor, regardless of their actual ability
This reminds me so much of the model minority myth which has been pushed onto Asian American citizens for decades. For Asian Americans that are attending school, it is the idea that they are 'naturally smarter' or 'are magically gifted in math'. This myth is so harmful because when these students aren't doing so hot in math or performing as well as their peers, there is a lot of pressure that they aren't "living up to their full potential" which causes unnecessary stress. They may be putting 100% effort into doing their best, but still not be accepted by societal standards, because it isn't what they expect from an Asian American who should be the perfect model citizen, and that has caused a lot of mental health problems.
But the point for me was who he was choosing for his models.
This reminds me of how in the introduction of Style the author points out several confusing quotes making fun of confusing writing. I am sure these writers weren't trying to be confusing, but their models were confusing so that is how they write.
If we come across a scientific article that is really hard to read, we should probably make it a point to NOT write like them in the future. If we aren't careful, we'll probably write like them on accident.
Information Overload
This reminds me of a video I watched that talked about how someone can be paralyzed with endless amounts of choice one person has when it comes to streaming services. You have too much choice and there is so much information out there, that the internet can be overwhelming and paralyzing. You can get millions of Google results in seconds but can feel overwhelmed when trying to figure out what google search to click on. We arguably have access to too much information at all times.
The glass can be replaced. But thosebroken windows are a symbol of a misdirected, angry younger generation
This reminds me of the news coverage during the 2020-2021 racial unrest following George Floyd's murder. While a lot of people responded with the demonstrations and looting as unnecessary and violent, it can that be perceived in the manner that DeBerry had, all of these actions are just visceral reaction to centuries of brutality and enslavement, what is that compared to weeks and days of retaliation?
Why not? said the Twins. And quick as they could theright-handed Twin cr eat ed women , and the left-handedTwin created men
This quote reminds me of hula and how my Kumu would talk to us about the left side of our bodies being connected to Hina (feminine) and the right side of our bodies being connected to Ku (masculine). I just thought that this was an interesting comparison because in this story the sides and corresponding attributes are switched.
Rose garden filled with thorns
perfect image that Swift had put up is now damaged, despite the pretty appearance, hurt and pain are deep rooted and you're bound to get hurt reminds me of the line about love being torture, picking up a beautiful rose will leave you in pain because of the thorns with it
Meaning: only follow rules that you are ok with everyone else following.
Kantian ethics reminds me a lot of the golden rule. One issue that I have with this framework is that it does not provide a wide scope of reference for viewing ethical outcomes. Doing things that you would be ok for everyone else to do fails to take in the perspective of others. It only considers what the individual deems acceptable behavior, not other parties involved.
Watch us go 'round and 'round each time
reminds me of a merry go round. this is saying that the cycle of them meeting and then ignoring each other is a cycle that continues. a toxic cycle
Most interesting were the “super-encounterers,” who reported that happy surprises popped up wherever they looked.
Reminds me of the movie Beetlejuice how Lydia can see the "strange and unusual" because she herself is "strange and unusual" and she pays attention to the world.
“I was just playing.”
I like this part because it reminds me of how silly we all are, like he admits to just "playing around".
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