M.M.’s Reviews > Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity > Status Update
M.M.
is on page 101 of 400
"commonplace appraisal of modernity that is framed by a surprisingly uninformed depiction of precivilized human life and an apparent disregard for the costs of civilizational progress."
I get it, becoming a bit repetitive.
— Mar 23, 2023 01:59AM
I get it, becoming a bit repetitive.
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M.M.
is on page 244 of 400
"It also ignores a historically consistent and continually growing body of political and social analysis that points to a failure of modern societies to to fulfill an individual's basic human needs for Community identity"
— Apr 13, 2023 08:18AM
M.M.
is on page 244 of 400
"... natural (and man-made) disasters liberated surviving victims from an oppressive normalcy: ' the traditional contrast between "normal" and "disaster" almost always ignores or minimizes the recurrent stresses of everyday life and their personal and social effects."
— Apr 13, 2023 08:17AM
M.M.
is on page 206 of 400
I'm going to finish this today bc the library needs it back but the last few chapters describing how hunter gatherers live/d, how children are treated, how unlike them we are because for us "happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal" has really got me thinking. I wish I had the time to takes more notes.
— Apr 13, 2023 05:27AM
M.M.
is on page 9 of 400
"Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up"
Ronald Wright, Canadian historian.
— Feb 15, 2023 04:51AM
Ronald Wright, Canadian historian.
