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This, in a nutshell, is the ascent of humanity that Jacob Bronowski was referring to in his classic The Ascent of Man, after which the present volume is ironically named.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
But the answer “black” immediately carries a heavy load, and a number of potentially violent actions—that would have been unlikely otherwise—suddenly become psychologically possible. You don’t just lecture or book this type of body or take it down to the station. It would have no respect for you if you did that—after all, it is more than used to ro
... See moreZadie Smith • Intimations: Six Essays
The realm of dainin—great people or true adults—has yet to begin. You could say that we are now living in an era of barbaric humanity, a sort of prehistory. We haven’t yet begun a historical period of true humanity. Now, it’s just primitive human beings being led by the nose by greed. It’s like a frenzied world of people just scraping and clawing a
... See moreDaitsu Tom Wright • The Roots of Goodness
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but it
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
racist White people unleash on Black people
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The defining feature of being drafted into the Black race [is] the inescapable robbery of time.”
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
You are not part of the human race, you are the result of it.
the history of ideas tells us that there are many collections of current humans we do not currently humanize.