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“Was Grandfather trying to tell me something significant in a language I could not interpret? I wanted to establish a sure relationship with him despite his thunder. Grandfather was a man with whom one could be intimate, if he permitted, without ever enjoying an intimate moment. His devotion to me was direct, captivating. He did not want to talk about it, or even show it in any normal manner.”
― John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

tags: fatherhood, masculinity, parents

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“Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both of those things.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

tags: cynicism, fear, hope

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“The darkness is there and there and there!" Grandfather flung his arms south, east, west.

I stood beside him, looked out in the directions he gave. I said, "I see the world, Grandfather. It frightens me. It doesn't hate me. Why should I hate it?”
― John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

tags: fear, hate

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“What challenged me and also confounded me was their (the Nobel prize attendees) apparent kindness...Their smiles were lovely, and most certainly charitable. Their benevolent might fooled me. I was a young fool, and still might be a fool, yet now I understand charity.”
― John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

tags: charity

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“The second of the dimensions that Hofstede's team added to their original four was long-term–short-term orientation, based on the Chinese Values Survey. In addition, Michael Minkov identified a similar dimension using the World Values Survey. While the precise nature of the constructs varies, African nations tend to score strongly toward the short-term end of the spectrum in all of them. For example, Ghana is the second most short-term oriented society out of 93 countries in the World Values Survey; Nigeria the fifth most and, out of the bottom 20 countries, 6 are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the Chinese Values Survey construct of long-term orientation, the only two Sub-Saharan countries out of 23 studied were Zimbabwe and Nigeria, which respectively scored fifth and second from bottom. Although a different construct, African societies also score very low on the Globe measure of future orientation.9 Experimental”
― Gurnek Bains, Cultural DNA: The Psychology of Globalization

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