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Chapter 13 and 14 are relevant especially for young women

friendship itself is sometimes dismissed as a female notion, a go-to staple of a patriarchal society that consistently frames women's interests as frivolous.

As a teenager, I needed to be an ogre at home to frighten my parents so they didn’t frighten me. … If I made them frightened of me, they wouldn’t ask me where I was going and I could do what I wanted without their fear of what the community would think.

Israel prefers expansion over security
Only survives cause of America

Israel’s refusal to acknowledge the expulsion of Palestine
Moral purity concept

No states have inherent legitimacy
They are built on violence and cause violence

The Palestinian refugee question is key

Chomsky argues that the Israel would have happened without the holocaust. Arguably Half of Holocaust survivors wanted to come to the US.
The idea of the Israeli state was also an idea in Christianity

“The truth fractures in his mouth” it’s up to tbe mc to ask the right questions

Shifting a paradigm is isolating and terrifying
Only focusing on the victories
To be so grateful for our opportunities and protective of our fragile new status and leave no room for questions doubts or our own humanities
Unreasonable to think you can navigate social mobility unscathed

Important to shake/ go for a walk when anxious to stop the anxiety

Hermeneutical injustice topics is really important ... gave me a lot to think about

*references abuses by the army esp debasement of women serving the us army https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/op...

pacing is good, well written and lyrical

So much better than I was expecting. The plot development is superb! World building adds to the magic. And the Angst… 😅 I am living for it.

Spoiler - to think he thought she would choose him as her reward. So glad this is a modern fairytale with women who have their own dreams and goals in life

Surprising … better than expected

“Acknowledging that loneliness is not a signal of brokenness”

“They dont unfold the way we expect them to”

“Anxiety is a tax to do the things I want to do... separates anxiety from the self”

“To anthropomorphise work feels different - dangerous
I have learned to imbue life in work because I need to work to survive. If I have to work instead of live, the work itself might as well live as I cannot live”

“Not all rich people are bad, but all bad people are rich”

Humble in a powerful way

Tim is so basic and privileged. Quotes steve jobs and Zuckerberg.

solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition

Octavio Paz

Idea of a time clock for life and comparing it to the NYC subway system installing time clocks.