Politics
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Deat
Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. . . . I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.”
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Over the last century, a new power narrative has emerged that warps archaeological data into a specific shape the way a magnet affects iron filings. It is the unspoken belief that humanity is on a journey from worse to better, from primitive to complex, uncivilised to civilised. Our civilisation of perpetual war, total surveillance, obesity,
... See moreGordon White • Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
An interesting idea to explore. Is retrospective nostalgia in old age completely misplaced? Are politicians also guilty of this deliberate "the future is brighter" attitude?
but if political rewards are indeed our goal, then we should never tire of courting the voters
Tom Holland • Rubicon
A citizen defined himself by the fellowship of others, in shared joys and sorrows, ambitions and fears, festivals, elections, and disciplines of war
Tom Holland • Rubicon
Every five years a citizen had to register himself there. He also had to declare the name of his wife, the number of his children, his property and his possessions, from his slaves and ready cash to his wife’s jewels and clothes. The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even ‘personal tastes and appetites should be
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