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Beirut (reference in Didion’s essays and U.S. discourse)
Annotations
[Geography] Capital of Lebanon, eastern Mediterranean coast.
[Historical Context]
1975–1990: Lebanese Civil War; Beirut became symbolic of sectarian conflict and foreign intervention.
1982: Israeli invasion; U.S. Marines deployed as peacekeepers.
1983: Marine barracks bombing killed 241
set of remarks Postman delivered in 1988 titled "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change." In it, he explores five insights about technology that every builder and user of technology needs to know:
- All technological change is a trade-off.
- The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the
Postman’s Prophetic Provocations
🃏 Card 8: “The End of Pretending”
Keywords: Radical honesty, resignation, death as gravity
Fool Aspect: The full-circle return: Fool becomes Crone
Summary: In the book’s final passages, Didion no longer tries to disguise her pain. She is unadorned. The Fool now carries no hope of flight—only memory, and the strange clarity of waiting to die.
Pull
Quantum Leap: S2:E5 - the jump landed Ben in Koreatown in L.A. on April 29, 1992. This episode is about protecting a Korean shoe store shop owner in Koreatown in LA from being killed from blood force trauma to the head. There are riots in the street. There are fires being set to cars. People are in the streets, turning over storefronts and
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