oligarchy
a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
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- Sep 2023
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participatory autocracy
- a person (such as a monarch) ruling with unlimited authority. 2. : one who has undisputed influence or power. He was the autocrat of his household
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I began this essay with the fairly banal example of crossing against the traffic lights in Neubrandenburg. The purpose was not to urge lawbreaking for its own sake, still less for the petty reason of saving a few minutes.
A lot of laws are broken by people trying to save time. By crossing the street agasint the light or speeding to get to work on time.
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n he senses a powerful response he repeats the theme in a slightly different way to sustain the enthusiasm and elaborate it. As impressive as his rhetorical creativity is, it is utterly dependent on finding the right pitch that will resonate with the deepest emotions and desires of his listeners
King was able to see how the crowd was doing and change his speeches to fit the settings
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You have to stay ‘in shape’ so that when the big day comes you will be ready.
Staying in shape meaning being prepared for what could happen if he did cross the street. Perpare what he would say to them if he did cross that street before the light
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vagrant
a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.
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that yelling will somehow overcome any language barrier. They managed to maintain a veneer of politeness, but the glances they exchanged at supper told me their patience was wearing thin. The aura of suspicion under which I labored, not to mention my manifest incompetence and incomprehension, was in turn getting on my nerves.
The hosts were very suspions with him living their. They didn't know if they would harm the farm in some way. They believed that yelling at him would make him understand even though its in a different language.
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pommes frites
French Fries
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The apparent disorder of leaves falling in the autumn, of the entrails of a rabbit, of the interior of a jet engine, of the city desk of a major newspaper is not disorder at all but rather an intricate functional order.
Just because something doesn't look nice doesn't mean that it won't work.
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visual order was not just fundamentally misguided, it was an attack on the actual, functioning vernacular order of a successful urban neighborhood.
Everyone wanted everything to look pretty but really it's about efficiency.
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residences required so many square feet of living space per (standardized) family, so much sunlight, so much water, so much kitchen space, so many electric outlets, so much adjacent playground space. Strict segregation of functions minimized the variables in the algorithm: it was easier to plan, easier to build, easier to maintain, easier to police, and, they thought, easier on the eye. Planning for single uses facilitated standardization, while by comparison, planning a complex, mixed-use town in these terms would have been a nightmare.
While it may seem difficult to plan all of these things. It really was easier when it was all said and done. Having everything mixed together could lead to more things like crime.
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When it came to spatial layout, virtually all planners favored the strict separation of diffferent spheres of urban activity: residential housing, commercial retail space, office space, entertainment, government offices, and ceremonial space.
planning the layout of a city is almost like farming. Considering that they want everything everything all together. Such as the housing together, then the commercial retail space together, and then so on.
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And yet the official name can be of vital importance.
It be vital importance because if something happens it can be hard to be specific when you call the road one of the two names it was given before route 77. At least with most places they will have mile markers on routes like that.
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perhaps the most important single thing you would want to know about a road is where it leads.
Roads can have it's given name, but it might not always be called that. It can just be called where it's taking and people will still know what you mean either way.
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It is a rare colonial enterprise that does not attempt to rename the landscape as a means of asserting its ownership and making it both familiar and legible to the colonizers
The land has so much meaning to the colonizers, it would almost be harmful to change the name.
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