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  1. Apr 2022
    1. Probably it’s important to remember the looming presence of climate change, as a kind of techno-social disaster

      This kind of reminds me of the movie the 5th Wave. Where there was disaster everywhere and government had control over all technology advances but also implemented chips into all the younger people

    2. Both of them express feelings about our shared future;

      The idea of a dystopia or utopias in the future is a scary thing. I feel like most of the time we are living in a dystopian society rather than a utopian society. It seems as if there is always chaos around the world

  2. Feb 2022
    1. they are in thecondition known as ‘war’; and it is a war of every man againstevery man.

      So without a common power men will always feel that there is competition with another

    2. the weakest man is strong enough to kill the strongest, eitherby a secret plot or by an alliance with others who are in thesame danger that he is in.

      This reminds me of certain movies or tv shows where the characters underestimate the weakest person. And they end up being the ones that come up on top.

    1. "Citizens, friends. After so manypainful sacrifices . . . here we are. Glory to those who have fallen for freedom.

      This is one of the shortest and worst speeches I've read. I feel like this speech needed to have more emotion especially if the soldiers fighting lost their lives.

  3. Jan 2022
    1. A small minority are enabled by their constitution to find happiness, in spite of everything, along the path of love

      But love does not always equal happiness

    2. It is as though primal man had the habit, when he came in contact with fire, of satisfying an infantile desire connected with it, by putting it out with a stream of his urine.

      I find it strange that primal man had a certain desire or kink to putting out a fire with their urine. There are multiple ways to put out a fire but to use urine just seems a little odd