An adequate life provided for all living beings is something the planet can still do; it has sufficient resources, and the sun provides enough energy.
This is very true but I will be a group effort. We need to start working towards these efforts before it is to late.
Berlant’s “cruel optimism,” which is perhaps thinking and saying that things will get better without doing the work of imagining how.
This reminds me of the same in the Bible that faith without works is dead.
. It’s crucial to keep imagining that things could get better, and furthermore to imagine how they might get better
It is rare to find many with this mindset.
Greimas
The Greimas square is a model based on relationships: Structure, Relationship Type, Relationship Elements
Things are bad, but also We are responsible for making them bad. And it’s hard not to notice that we’re not doing enough to make things better, so things will get worse too
I never thought of it this way, but this is true. On the other hand, it is only so much one can do.
catharsis
This means the process of releasing and thereby providing relief from strong or repressed emotions
Purgation
it’s nowhere near as bad as the ones these poor characters are suffering through.
This is true
Or maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it.”
This sort of mindset is what keeps the dystopian societies in the bad state because everyone begins to settle and accept things for how they are rather than trying to find a way to overcome the circumstances.
fear
This is the root of most dystopian societies,
ogether the two views combine and pop into a vision of History, extending magically into the future
It is not as far in the future as we like to believe.
Possibly dystopias hope to kill the societies they
Is it true that many dystopias start off as utopias? If this is the case then the dystopias are trying to kill the utopian societies.
There are a lot of dystopias around these days, and this makes sense, because we have a lot of fears about the future
This is very true nowadays because life has thrown so many curveballs in the past 2 years that it is hard to just be complacent with what’s next.
are •fear of death,
The fear of death is only a problem when life projections have not been fully fulfilled.
power, there is no law; and where there is no law, there
Very true because without laws their are no standards set to compare.
what way of life there would be if there were no commo
No one would even imagine life like this.
don’t you accuse mankind as much by your action
This is a great point! In a way we are saying that we don’t trust men so we prepare by protecting ourselves
PEACE.
Is peace only found when their is no war?
The first makes men invade for •gain; the second f
Great way to sum it up!
as highly as he values himself
This is a very bad way of thinking, but it is true because it is in a mans nature to want to be seen as superior and powerful.
strike first, that is, by force or cunning subdue other men
Striking first is a tactic that leads to a never ending war because their is always a series of one trying to get the other back for past wrongdoings.
each of them on the way to his goal (which
Survival of the fittest because they are fighting for the same thing and the strongest wins
for he sees his own wisdom close up, and other men’s
The term wisdom is subjective depending on the person. A person can be “wise” based on tier standards but ignorant to everyone else.
the weakest man is strong enough to kill the strongest,
I agree with this because physical strength doesn’t always outweigh mental strength or group efforts.
only words count and the rest is mere chattering."
This statement makes sense but it is very subjective to your idea of words and chattering
national reconciliation.
Physical reconciliation is not enough to make up for the trauma.
Europeans did not wait passively for liberation
They fought irrationally for liberation and freedom
Peace gave me a curious sensation.
Peace is sadly a prolege in many situations p, but it should not be this way
I realized what we were liberated from.
Relief from true suffering was displayed
. At night I put my wad in a water glass, so it would be fresh
Is the author trying to coney a deeper meaning here?
learned how to dodge bullets. It was good exercise
Is this figurative language or realism?
My answer was positive. I was a smart boy.
Smart in the sense of saying the wrong thing will get you penalized in that society.
ȁThou shall love thy neighbour as thyself.ȂȱIt is known throughout the world and is undoubtedly older than Christianity,
I agree with this statement.
The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness
All men are aggressive by nature but still need to be loved
his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will. At the same time, it would be unfair to reproach civilization with trying to eliminate strife and competition from human activity. These things are undoubtedly indispensable. But opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. The communists believe that they have found the path to deliverance from our evils.
This is true and is in fact a very screwed way of thinking.
he enjoyment obtained by putting a bare leg from under the bedclothes on a cold winter night and drawing it in again. If there had been no railway to conquer distances, my child would never have left his native town and I should need no telephone to hear has voice; if travelling across the ocean by ship had not been introduced, my friend would not have embarked on his sea-voyage and I should not need a cable to relieve my anxiety about him.
It is only something we can imagine.
We may expect gradually to carry through such alterations in our civilization as will better satisfy our needs and will escape our criticisms. But perhaps we may also familiarize ourselves with the idea that there are difficulties attaching to the nature of civilization which will not yield to any attempt at reform.
We must realize that some things will change and some will not change, so we must accept things for what they are and focus on what can change.
Does it mean nothing that medicine has succeeded in enormously reducing infant mortality and the danger of infection for women in childbirth, and, indeed, in considerably lengthening the average life of a civilized man?
This means a lot because it is a huge advancement.
an extraordinary advance in the natural sciences and in their technical application and has established his control over nature in a way never before imagined
This is true because at this point in time technology has been advanced and used in ways that we could have never imagined. Technology is taking over the nation.
t was discovered that a person becomes neurotic because he cannot tolerate the amount of frustration which society imposes on him in the service of its cultural ideals, and it was inferred from this that the abolition or reduction of those demands would result in a return to possibilities of happiness.
I am slightly uneasy abut this statement because that can be a cause of neuroticism, but what specific demands are we referring to as it relates to the possibilities of happiness.
believe that the basis of it was a deep and long-standing dissatisfaction with the then existing state of civilization and that on that basis a condemnation of it was built up, occasioned by certain specific historical events
I believe that slaver was a major historical event that contributed to this dissatisfaction.
the superior power of nature, the feebleness of our own bodies and the inadequacy of the regulations which adjust the mutual relationships of human beings in the family, the state and society.
I can somewhat agree with this point of view because this is somewhat true. Our bodies of relationships are very much in family.
I am not learned enough to trace the chain of them far back enough in the history of the human species; but a factor of this land hostile to civilization must already have been at work in the victory of Christendom over the heathen religions, for it was very closely related to the low estimation put upon earthly life by the Christian doctrine.
Is this document referring to Christianity as a way of suffering or what is it exactly saying?
If we cannot remove all suffering, we can remove some, and we can mitigate some
I agree with this because suffering will never be ver, but it can get better over time.
suffering
There are many different definitions and connotations about suffering. I wonder which definition of suffering is referred to here.
when everyone is formally free,how can there be class domination?
This is a good question that will require more thought from me.
Eliminating oppression thus requires eliminating groups. People should be treated as individuals, not as members of groups, and allowed to form their lives freely
While I do somewhat agree with this statement, I find it to be unrealistic therefore compromise must happen. Individuals should be judged as individuals first then in relation to their respective “groups”.
because one group excludes and labels a category of persons,
This is the case a lot which cause me to bring up the question of whether or not the group is bonded on commonality or simply based on the likeness in wanting to be accepted by somebody rather than for a more precise reason.
philosophy of consciousness"
Looks at egos associated with the person
The person is prior to the association also in that the person's idei1tity and sense of self are usu
I find this to be an important aspect of the model because an individual prior to the group can display different attributes.
Black Americans as a social group is not primarily their skin color
I feel that Black Americans are not really a social drop but more of a group that is primarily congregated based on experiences and descent.
Black activist
I just wanted to note her focusing on race even though that is not her main focus.
oppression
prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control
the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control
Someone who does not see a pane of glass does not know that he does not see d.
I love this as an introduction to the reading because it hooks me in and begins to allow my mind to start questioning and thinking about this idea. Everyone’s perspective on things is different, so how can one disprove another’s though process if that is genuinely what they believe? I love critical thinking beginnings like this overall because I can see everyone’s perspective.