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- bruci la città
irene grandi
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- low e to a, first two notes; highest span c# to high c#
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- ephemeral flame
- close your eyes (take my hand)
give me your hand (lend me your ears) darling
do you feel our hearts beating
for as long as we live
we shall stand here side by side
do you feel our pain
so life reminds us
this our yearning
an ephemeral flame
just as long as I’m living
I’ll be by your side
this our yearning
an ephemeral flame
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- not yet read
- the human swarm: how our societies arise, thrive, and fall
mark moffett 2019
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- if civilisation is a car hanging off a cliff, conservatives are those at the front who drove it there, progressives are those who happen to be at the back with best chance of escape — but if they leave first, without waiting for those coming from the front seats, then the front-seaters and the car go off the cliff.
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- civilisation
- in some ways the problem of society is that of moving from basic belief to understanding. when we believe things like focus, efficiency, strategy — then it is hard to move on to the greater tasks of harmony, community, cherishing.
- we must ask, “what is our civilisation lacking?” rather than “what do we need more of that we already have?”
- in the recent past, a lot of culture may have seemed to depend on experiencing the same thing with other people at the same time. to some degree, this is still true. but now, what it is that we experience is ascendant, even if it is separated in time or space.
- people don't spend much time thinking of the cruft of civilisation. most people are decent, but it is not necessarily decency which sticks to civilisation. the lazy, neglectful and abusive also exist and also contribute so we need a balance to clear out the cruft created within the fabric of our civilisation.
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- people in this age have been led to believe that if you are not in their band, their tribe, if you do not say “yes, me too”, then you don't belong and must be hated. this book is a story of how we all can realise that we are all wiser than we know — for wisdom is not just understanding
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- (not)knowledge is first order; wisdom is knowing what (not) to do with knowledge, that is, it is second order; “enlightenment” is knowing what (not) to do with wisdom, that is, it is third order.
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- for almost everyone nowadays, our identities are inseparable from our beliefs. but what if you are one of the few who feel that is not the path for you? at the start, you may just vaguely feel there is something amiss about so strongly identifying with our beliefs, and from within a society that dictates that as a norm, as something we are expected to conform to, that expectation is very difficult to challenge, because it is part of the fabric of life.
- But, sadly, societal expectations such as these are at the root of why our civilisation is so toxic — and if we truly wish to improve our civilisation and our society, we must face the difficult task of understanding entire fields of knowledge and practice which few in our present time even know exist, let alone appreciate.
- My journey started when I tried to understand why people are abusive. Eventually I began to realise that abuse was pervasive, but also that people were not intentionally “evil” — we are all, in fact, abusive, though we do not realise it. It seems to be part of the structure of reality, of knowledge, of understanding, that there will always be many things beyond our understanding, and because that is so, as we live out lives we act in ways that are abusive, simply because we know no better, and can in that moment in fact do no better than we are doing — we are living at our limits, always.
- But, there is a partial escape from this trap. Once we realise this fundamental property of reality — this may be part of what people call “enlightenment” — we can do our best to work around it.
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- everyone is unreasonable in some way or another, it is just that we do not realise it. most of our lives are spent under the illusion that we are reasonable, and that is a glue that holds society together — it is the basis for most of the illusions of civilisation. to live without that illusion is a hard and lonely road; do we need something else to bind us together instead? it is not that this illusion has always been the way our species has dealt with this, it is just that we have collectively forgotten the other ways.
- different kinds of society are good at perpetuating different kinds of wisdom. it is not only totalitarian regimes that are weak. each society by its nature can only nurture those kinds of wisdom that are compatible with it, and there is wisdom that is not very compatible with almost any society at all.
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