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whether we can rediscover the freedoms that make us human in the first place.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
the limelight shifted onto the common soldier and his experiences.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Only a European author could have concluded that the natural state of man was to be in a constant state of violence; and only a European author would have been right.
Peter Frankopan • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Introduction to Political Philosophy with Steven B. Smith
Minsuk Kang 강민석 • 5 cards
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