So, granting the complications and difficulties,the task at hand is to imagine ways forward to that better place
I definitely agree that it is possible but I think people enjoy the levels of life. It gives those in high untouchable places comfort.
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- Apr 2023
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The situation is bad, yes, okay, enough of that; we know that already.
I feel like with some things in the world you just have to realize you may not be able to do much about it.
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Things are bad, but also We areresponsible for making them bad
I think a lot of authors use the basis of things happening in real life and exaggerate to the point where it will make someone wonder, could this really happen?
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portray the feeling of the present for young people today, heightened byexaggeration to a kind of dream or nightmare
Most dystopian tales do a great job of addressing certain fears and concerns about what the world could become. I know I definitely hope that the time never comes.
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Together thetwo views combine and pop into a vision of History,
I feel like with a combination of the two the arrangements of stories can be endless.
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because we have a lot of fears about the future
Some people fear being judged. Some fear that harm will come to them because of their culture or skin tone. Some fear what the world will be like in years to come. Some fear for the safety of their children and grandchildren. We live in a world of constant fears, that i could go on and on about.
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juridical
Another synonym includes "legalized". Relating to the administration of justice.
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons
It is actually not surprising because I've somewhat noticed this in multiple areas before. The structure of the buildings and the way they are structured definitely resembles the patterns of prisons.
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it possible to brand the “leper” and to bring into play against him the dualistic mechanisms of exclusion.
This aligns with marginalization and can be seen as a face of oppression due to the push outcasting the "lepers".
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haunting memory of “contagions”, of the plague, of rebellions, crimes, vagabondage, desertions, people who appear and disappear, live and die in disorder
This structure put in place was not only to rid of the plague but also to eliminate other negative acts performed by people.
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Everyone locked up in his cage, everyone at his window, answering to his name and showing himself when asked — it is the great review of the living and the dead.
The people no longer have any free will to do as they please. This line I believe comes from the perspective of the people locked inside their homes.
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pain of death
This is a repeated phrase throughout the reading. I'm assuming this phrase means if you do not do whatever it is in front of the phrase, you will be punished.
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if he leaves the street, he will be condemned to death.
This reminds me of when curfews were set in place during the beginning of COVID.
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- Mar 2023
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To this war of every man against every man this also is consequent, thatnothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice,have there no place.
This is basically saying that every man is for himself and the terms right and wrong mean nothing when it comes to the casualties of that war.
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For the savage people in many placesof America, except the government of small families the concord whereofdependeth on natural lust, have no government at all, and live at this day in thatbrutish manner as I said before.
Men that don't have a form of a ruler or live a life without morals or principles are led by their own selfish desires and show it in very malicious and harsh ways.
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And from hence it comes to passthat, where an invader hath no more to fear than another man’s single power, ifone plant, sow, build, or possess, a convenient seat others may probably beexpected to come prepared with forces united to dispossess and deprive himnot only of the fruit of his labor but also of his life or liberty. And the invaderagain is in the like danger of another.
Once a man can truly see that there is nothing to fear from another man, he can muster up the courage and will to take what he feels is his by any means necessary. But he is in the exact same danger as the man whom he overcame because there are other men out there with the same mentality as him.
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From this equality of ability ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends.And therefore, if any two men desire the same thing which nevertheless theycannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and, in the way to their end, which isprincipally their own conservation and sometimes their delectation only,endeavour to destroy or subdue one another
This means that when men set their sights on something that they wish to accomplish together but can't see eye to eye on one they will both try to force their way onto one another and the greater man of the two will overcome the lesser.
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skill of proceeding upon general and infallible rulescalled science, which very few have and but in few things, as being not a nativefaculty born with us, nor attained, as prudence
This is basically telling you that things like science or other things taught to us through schools are things we are not born with and won't just pick up on by accident or happen by themselves.
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For, as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill thestrongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are inthe same danger with himself.
My understanding of this sentence is that although one man may be more physically gifted than another, we are all given an equal opportunity when it comes to thinking capacity. there may be great strength within him, but there is always great strength in strategy and numbers.
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so considerable as that one man can thereuponclaim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he
Although there are differences present that does not mean that someone can not exaggerate there qualities.
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- Feb 2023
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When this happened, themale acquired a motive for keeping the female,
Is this really love?
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is itself restricted by further limitations, in the shape of insistenceupon legitimacy and monogamy
No matter how free things feel, there's some sort of societal influence and restriction.
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is that men are not gentlecreatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; theyare, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerfulshare of aggressiveness.
I definitely believe this is something a lot of people try to ignore, but history shows otherwise.
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enmity;
state of being opposed.
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it forms the basis of every relation ofaffection and love among people
Some people do struggle without a place to call home.
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We must not forget, however, that in the primal family only the headof it enjoyed this instinctual freedom; the rest lived in slavish suppression
Some people are allowed to do as they please and get away with it because of the amount of money that they have. Whereas people of a lower class do the same action and are punished very heavily for it.
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We must ask ourselves to what influences the development of civilization owes its origin, howit arose, and by what its course has been determined.
This is definitely the root of everything because I don't think anyone truly understands why the world is the way it is without biases.
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No feature, however, seems better to characterize civilization than its esteem and encouragement of man'shigher mental activities
A strong sense of encouragement and self-esteems allows someone to be confident about themselves. This leads to them becoming very sure of there thoughts and activites.
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The essence of it lies in the fact that the members of the community restrict themselves intheir possibilities of satisfaction, whereas the individual knew no such restrictions.
This makes sense because we wouldn't know of the rules if we never interacted with society. We would live a life that we see fit.
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Beauty, cleanliness and order obviously occupy a special position among the requirements ofcivilization.
I never thought about the unconscious strain this puts on us.
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Wild anddangerous animals have been exterminated, and the breeding of domesticated animals flourishes.
Nature is no longer allowed to be nature and is continuously manipulated.
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auxiliary organs
Referring to the tools used.
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by means of the telescope he sees into the far distance; and by means of the microscope heovercomes the limits of visibility set by the structure of his retina.
Multiple means have been developed to remove the physical limits humans have.
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Does it meannothing that medicine has succeeded in enormously reducing infant mortality and the danger ofinfection for women in childbirth, and, indeed, in considerably lengthening the average life of a civilizedman?
This shows that there has to be a balance between mental and physical health. Someone could be physically healthy but not happy because there are still other pressures on them.
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abolition or reduction of those demands would result in a return to possibilities of happiness
We are literally raised under the principles to enter society and work a 9-5 type of job. While we're not taught about the skills that most people struggle with such as budgeting.
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We do not admit it at all; we cannot see why the regulations made by ourselves shouldnot, on the contrary, be a protection and a benefit for every one of us.
I believe this referring to how the laws benefits some groups more than others.
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We shall nevercompletely master nature; and our bodily organism, itself a part of that nature, will always remain atransient structure with a limited capacity for adaptation and achievement.
The way I perceived this statement is that because of all the things that go on around us, we can never truly focus on developing ourselves and our bodies to their maximum potential.
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injustice refers primanly to two forms of disabling constraints, oppression and domination.
The oppression of a group of people because someone is afraid to lose their dominating power is definitely an injustice.
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But what is a group?
A person's "group" becomes the bases of their identity and who they are as a person. Your group determines things you do on a day-to-day basis, the childhood you have, etc.
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W hy do class distinctions persist betweenthe wealthy, who own the means of production, and the mass of people, whowork for them?
This is definitely a question I've wondered. The people who do all the work receive very little. While the few who do nothing, receive a lot.
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The details provided on the 5 faces definitely helped me gain a different understanding of oppression. History has definitely formed these definitions and I can safely say that's not a good thing.
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model of aggregates or on the model ofassociation
The model of association refers to a whole and part relationship. Whereas the association model refers to the relationship between two classes where one class uses another.
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its similarities with and differences from the oppression of othergroups
Every group does not face the same challenges but this doesn't mean their issues are not qualified.
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. We are ill prepared forthis �ask, ho�ever, because we have no clear account of the meaning of oppression
This is true with a lot of terms and movements. Some people only use the phrases because of the hype behind it, rather than actually sitting back and understanding what it means.
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