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"Rome's baths didn't involve soap, sewage system just carried around bacteria, human waste wasn't composted or processed before being spread on farms, lived in close quarters: several huge plagues that weakened the empire" — Feb 01, 2024 03:45PM
"Rome's baths didn't involve soap, sewage system just carried around bacteria, human waste wasn't composted or processed before being spread on farms, lived in close quarters: several huge plagues that weakened the empire" — Feb 01, 2024 03:45PM
Tal, as usual, recoiled from discussion of mortality. He was twenty-five years old and did not need this. Nor did he know what to say. Even to someone you justifiably loathed, there was probably some way you were supposed to respond to I’m
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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.”
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
“they were now their own unavoidable experiment, and were making themselves into many things they had never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long-lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since, dogs when we had been wolves. But also, despite that individual diminuation, finding ways to accumulate knowledge and power, compiling records, also techniques, practices, sciences
possibly smarter therefore as a species than as individuals, but prone to insanity either way...”
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possibly smarter therefore as a species than as individuals, but prone to insanity either way...”
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