Laura Huang
@laurah
Laura Huang
@laurah
the beholding of idols, or the use of technology, conforms men to them.
Marshall McLuhan • 30 highlights
readwise.iowhat is really interesting is the question of what drives life, what explains animal behavior and what explains the correspondence between organism and environment. This is the question. The mechanism of heredity or the means by which a species is shaped, natural or unnatural selection, which is really Darwin’s only insight, is the least
... See morenot correct to call estrogen then a “sex hormone,” but a stress hormone, and its greater proportion in body of female is because female is under greater stress due to demands of inner cell division and menstruation.
technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation,
Toynbee expounds the principle that times of trouble or rapid change produce militarism, and it is militarism that produces empire and expansion.
inside us is a spark of divinity that is trapped in matter.