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But an exclusively economic approach to life is profoundly irrational; the true bottom line [of any human effort] consists in the quality and complexity of experience.

Alone, when the dark night of the soul descends, are we forced into frantic attempts to distract the mind from its coming?

They are easily manipulated by demagogues, pacified by entertainers, and exploited by anyone who has somehing to sell

este livro estah a ser tao repetitivo like WE GET ITTTT DESENVOLVE

andy weir the man that you are

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THEY WAVED BACK???? im emotional ;-;

ESTOU A ADORAR ESTE LIVRO!!!!!!

Just consider the mass neurotic syndrome so pervasive in the young generation: there is ample empirical evidence that the three facets of this syndrome - depression, aggression, addiction - are due to what is called in logo-therapy "the existential vacuum," a feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness.

ele escreveu isto em 2006

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task."

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand."

estas páginas valem mesmo a pena ler, é a distinção entre o valor no trabalho por ser trabalho vs por produzir coisas vs por ajudar pessoas, muito bom

okay este capitulo "Why do we as a society not object to the growth of pointless employment?" é o cerne da questão

ver página 236 sobre caring labor

"In other words, we'll make a living from you doing what you love (for free), but we'll keep you in check by making sure you have to make a living doing what you hate."

READING THIS WHILE ON COMPANY TIME CAN I GET A HELL YEAH

"In ancient Egypt, as so often in history, significant political accomplishments occur in precisely those periods (the so-called 'dark ages') that get dismissed or overlooked because no one was building grandiose monuments in stone."

"In summary, the transition from Old Kingdom to First Intermediate period was not so much a shift from 'order' to 'chaos' - as Egyptological orthodoxy once had it - as a swing from 'sovereignty' to 'charismatic politics' as different ways of framing the exercise of power. With that came a shift in emphasis, from the people's care of god-like rulers to the care of the people as a legitimate path to authority."

"People have an unfortunate tendency yo see the successful prosecution of arbitrary violence as in some sense divine, or at least to identify it with some kind of transcendental power."

"We would like to suggest that these three principles - call them control of violence, control of information, and individual charisma - are also the three possible bases of social power."