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The first vaccine for smallpox was developed at the end of the 18th century, and by the end of the 19th century, the disease had become comparatively rare in most industrialized countries. In the 20th century, medical advances made the
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After coming so far from having massive amounts of people dying of smallpox, we are back at a 19th century mode of thinking.
“But to write off white working-class anger as nothing more than racism is intellectual comfort food, and it is dangerous.”
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
“Most of what we know isn’t why things are what they are. We just figure out enough about how they work that we can predict the next thing that’s going to happen.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
― Babylon’s Ashes
“that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
“Situations change and clinging too tightly to what came before kills you.”
― Babylon's Ashes
― Babylon's Ashes
“Hegel argued that the capitalist organization of work emerging in his time could be ethically justified only on two conditions, described succinctly by Honneth: “first, it must provide a minimum wage; second, it must give all work activities a shape that reveals them to be a contribution to the common good.”47”
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Felipe’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Felipe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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28 friends
307 books
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414 books
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492 books
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148 books
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162 books
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115 books
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310 books
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49 friends
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