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Ch 5: you can think of a country’s dependence on oil like an addiction to heroin. It’s hard to take the blow on the economy in order to reduce consumption for future generations.

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure
way
the
continuity was not broken.
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

“But evolutionary psychologists, mindful of the ingenuity of foraging peoples, insist that humans evolved to occupy the "cognitive niche" the ability to outsmart nature with language, sociality, and know-how!* If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers.”

Epithet = an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

Quote: ‘Although there are several reasons why someone may not enjoy [their] achievements, it can be useful to ask, “Who chose your goals? You, or the voice of some significant other inside you?” Neither pride nor self-esteem can be supported by the pursuit of secondhand values that do not reflect who we really are’

“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.”

can’t go too wrong with a self help book

this guy predicting our modern world over 100 years ago is kinda crazy

virulence = the severity or harmfulness of a disease or poison

dxx

if u like this book listen to Self Love by Mavi