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.
I feel that resources aren't the problem, it's getting people to come together and want to be on one accord instead of in competition with people. It is the people in the world that hold us back from achieving this not the resources.
Immediately many people will object that this is too hard, too implausible, contradictory to human nature,
I find this statement a tad bit contradicting to her previous statement about being able to have adequate food water shelter, education ect for 8 billion people. The tone seemed sarcastic but then she doubles back to say how people will find it too hard but it seems like she was implying that as well.
portrays some future that might actually come to pass; it’s a kind of proleptic realism.
During the podcast assignment I mentioned something similar to this about how people often fear that dystopias may be real and take place in our future.
utopias express our social hopes, dystopias our social fears.
I've never even thought to view dystopias and utopias as ways we express ourselves socially. I agree with the way she interpreted theses two terms on a deeper level.
every man against every man
This reminds me of like a safari, where every animal must protect itself, because at any given time that animals can become someones prey.
they are in thecondition known as ‘war’; and it is a war of every man againstevery man. For WAR doesn’t consist just in •battle or the actof fighting, but in •a period of time during which it is wellenough known that people are willing to join in battle. So thetemporal element in the notion of ‘when there is war’ is likethe temporal element in ‘when there is bad weather’. Whatconstitutes bad weather is not a rain-shower or two but aninclination to rain through many days together;
I like how Hobbes compared war to bad weather, it helped me to understand the metaphor clearly.
So if any two menwant a single thing which they can’t both enjoy, they becomeenemies; and each of them on the way to his goal (which isprincipally his own survival, though sometimes merely his
I honestly don't see the point in competition, there is always going to be an equal or better thing or opportunity. I also don't think that just because you're competing against someone that ya'll have to be enemies.
Nature has made men so equal in their physical andmental capacities that,
I agree I believe in current society the only thing that differs among men is their class (wealth).
prudence
the quality of being prudent; cautiousness
To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their onlyprivilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country
So would that mean that everyone born in the same city would present as the same social identity?
If reconciliation means compassion and respect for all those who fought their own war ingood faith, to forgive does not mean to forget.
I agree with this statement that forgiving doesn't mean to forget but in order for reconciliation to take place you must restore to friendly relations.
In my country today there are those who are saying that the myth of the Resistance was aCommunist lie. It is true that the Communists exploited the Resistance as if it were theirpersonal property, since they played a prime role in it
Would this be an example of a doublethink, because of the political indoctrination?
Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security.
I agree with this statement that men portray this bold aggressive personality and attitude while they're happiness is suffering. I also feel like it shouldn't have to be this way, men shouldn't have to sacrifice or exchange their possibility of happiness for security.
he male acquired a motive for keeping the female, or, speaking more generally, his sexual objects, near him; while the female, who did not want to be separated from her helpless young, was obliged, in their interests, to remain with the stronger male.*
I feel like this statement refers to females as objects with little to no importance. As if females were only placed on earth to satisfy men and take care of the children. This is a common view in history, however things have much changed since then.
that, on the contrary, human beings exhibit an inborn tendency to carelessness, irregularity and unreliability in their work, and that a laborious training is needed before they learn to follow the example of their celestial models.
I agree with this statement is someone doesn't have a passion for something they are going to show a carelessness attitude for it. they aren't going to put much effort into learning how to do it, until they are trained or taught.
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?
Mankind has evolved so much with the emerging use of technology, so many things have changed from the beginning times. People are able to live longer healthier lives, treat diseases ect.
e shall never completely master nature; and our bodily organism, itself a part of that nature, will always remain a transient structure with a limited capacity for adaptation and achievement.
I believe Freud is explaining how we will never be perfect, humans aren't capable of reaching certain achievements due to our limited adaptation in the world.
W hy do class distinctions persist betweenthe wealthy, who own the means of production, and the mass of people, whowork for them?
This is something that bothers me about society. I don't understand why there are super wealthy people like billionaires and then really poor people working for them and barely making enough to live comfortably.
distribution. In accordance with ordinary political usage, I suggest that op-pression is a condition of groups. Thus before explicating the meaning of op--
I like how she's going to break down the five concepts of oppression, because oppression can mean different things to different oppressed groups.
Justice should refer not only to distribution, but also to the institutional conditions necessary for the development and exercise of individual capacities and collective communication_ and cooperation
This caught my attention because I agree with this statement. I view it as those who teach and spread bad behaviors and acts should be just as much to blame as the person committing the act.