And even if you’re state-funded, you may have to supplement your income from public money by raising commercial revenue from advertising or other sources.

originating in a social contr

commerce

monastic aristocracy

few of Africa's governments would not qualify as state

quasi-states

sovereignty represents an historical mode of global govern­ance intended to effect a moral order of identity and subjectivity.

effort to monopolize the means of violence within a delimited territory adjacent to a power holder's base.

With the other, it evokes the racket in which a local strong man forces merchants to pay tribute in order to avoid damag

The Treaty of Westphalia

“monopoly on the legitimate use of force.”

focus on the ways states and their rulers regulate what people do with their time, money, property, minds, and bodies.

legitimate authority must be backed by the threat of force.

people would agree to limit their own freedom to do as they please, as long as everyone else agreed to the same restrictions

government to avoid this dismal fate

forced to pay their taxes, or they can willingly do so

f we all act solely on our individual interests, we all might lose out on what we want.

what I choose to do may affect your ability to choose what you want to do, and vice-versa.

April 2009, Somali pirates captured an American cargo ship and took its captain hostage aboard a small lifeboat.

Smelting

stoicism

It's the picture of a human being who lacks the very idea of evil

While he's capable of feeling human sympathy, he's equally capable of coolly committing murder.

He's a cultivated, knowledgeable human being.

people often destroy the good in others and at the same time sabotage their own.

people set morality aside as a matter of self-interest

You either let some event ruin your life or not. The decision is yours.

Both choose to commit murder for the sake of goals they think are more important than traditional moral values.

They don't care as long as their semi-aristocratic lifestyle runs on smoothly.

Ripley was living more lucidly and more purposefully than most human beings are capable of doing.

He kills when killing is necessary in order to maintain the kind of life he enjoys, not because he enjoys murdering people.

he kills in order to prevent his crimes from being exposed.

the basis that good and evil have no meaning.

depictions

showing the unequivocal triumph of evil over good, and rejoicing in it. I shall make my readers rejoice in it, too".

rejoicing

unequivocal

Highsmith was always fascinated by evil.

that evil is gradually diminishing in the world as human beings become more reasonable.

The suicide says "no" to life because it has become an intolerable burden.

Even a mild deprivation of love can be enough to turn us into monsters.

killing simply for the hell of it.

good are bound to end up as victims, and nobody wants to be that.

something nerdy about goodness.

do nothing without a soberly calculated purpose.

by tearing other people apart.

banality

it crumbles away to nothing.

joie de vivre

when goodness began to look boring.

Don’t sign the contract!

small doses of additional life

repeat

“whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”

Mephistopheles isn’t done with us.

becomes the target of the devil Mephistopheles

has a surprising connection to the world of aging today.

None of us are heroes.

Now before I go into the cave and when I come out I have a little prayer.

For him, something has changed

"One of the divers lost his dive line whilst carrying one of the precious packages, but he made it out as well.

rain that was forecast actually came earlier than we expected

They were given a quick jab to get them unconscious (again)."

Each boy was given a full face mask, then packaged up - strapped to a kind of stretcher, tied hand and foot with cable ties.

The Wild Boars were knocked out. In some cases, they were barely breathing.

The only way they might get the boys out alive was to sedate them

There was a horrible smell,

search for the team started on 1 July

Nobody reported them as being lost or not around, not even their wives."

I knew that this was going to end with someone losing their life

They didn't really know what to do,

simply because they'd never had this situation arise before

"I know it [the cave system] better than anybody. It's been my second home. I don't have to think about where I am,

got trapped by floodwater 4km (2.5 miles) inside

12 boys and their football coach had been found alive deep underground

He's been exploring underground caves for almost 50 years

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and the horror of what lay ahead

a year after one of the most complex and dangerous rescues the world has ever seen, Vernon is still dealing with the trauma of those 17 desperate days.