saying that the idea of utopia itself is wrong and bad, and that any attempt to try to make things better is sure to wind
Would this make it worse than a dystopia? If utopia makes a perfect society and dystopia is the opposite, anti utopia would actively make them miserable so would it be worse than dystopia?
pleasure of reading them is cozying into the feeling that however bad our present moment is
Would this be because we are are already in a dystopia and reading book is an escape from it. That could be a reason why we love this genre..
dystopias our social fears
At the rate we are heading, ,if WW3 happen then the whole world would become a dystopia
Leviathan
mythical creature
f there had never been any time at which•individual men were in a state of war one against another,this is how •kings, and persons of sovereign authority relateto one another at all time
It basically saying that there is always tension with neighboring countries. Even today, we are in a cold war which is an indirect war with each other
what opiniondo you have of your fellow subjects when you ride armed?Of your fellow citizens when you lock your doors? Of yourchildren and servants when you lock your chests?
I believe that this day and age it is dangerous outside. The government may have laws that are set to protect us but there will always be people who do not follow that law. So I believe that you should arm yourself because if you wont, who will?
Because of this distrust amongst men, themost reasonable way for any man to make himself safe is tostrike first, that is, by force or cunning subdue other men—asmany of them as he can
This is true because you never know who is hostile or peaceful. Also, men love having power and that means dominating others.
human naturethat however much a man may acknowledge many others tobe more •witty, or more •eloquent, or more •learned than heis, he won’t easily believe that many men are as •wise as heis; for he sees his own wisdom close up, and other men’s ata distance.
This sounds like arrogance and ignorance where you look down on others and believe that are not as smart as you are
stronger in body or quicker of mindthan another, yet taking all in all the difference between oneand another is not so great that one man can claim to haveany advantage ·of strength or skill or the like
This sounds like survival of the fittest with brains vs brawn.
Lamarck was right there was no room for Darwin
Lamarck was a genius in biology in the early days.
Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime oneor more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist
Fascism has more than one meaning but its roots is still there.
Mies van der Ro
he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture
f we still think of the totalitarian governments that ruled Europe before the SecondWorld War we can easily say that it would be difficult for them to reappear in the sameform in different historical circumstances.
I remember in history class that the reason why Hitler rose to power was because Jew controlled most of Europe and it was unfair for everyone.
FASCISM
One easy way to know what fascism is think of Hitler and his people. Its basically a dictatorships where they rose in power with all his followers believing in his vision
envied
desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else).
The development of civilization appears to us as a peculiar process which mankind undergoes, and in which several things strike us as familiar. We may characterize this process with reference to the changes which it brings about in the familiar instinctual dispositions of human beings, to satisfy which is, after all, the economic task of our lives.
Civilization bring changes
When we justly find fault with the present state of our civilization for so inadequately fulfilling our demands for a plan of life that shall make us happy; and for allowing the existence of so much suffering which could probably be avoided
Good summary on why we suffer and arent happy
neurotic
relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality
And even if we proceed from it to the problem of why it is so hard for men to be happy,
I learned in my philosophy class that the end goal of all human is to be happy ~ Aristotle
People should be treated as individuals, not as members of groups, and allowed to form their lives freely without stereoty pes or group norms
How to get rid of groups
constitute
be (a part) of a whole
But social groups do not arise only from an encounter between different societies.
Remember that social groups form from people who share similar experience which makes them associate more with people in that group than those without groups
ut also to the institutional conditions necessary for the development and exercise of individual capacities and collective communication_ and cooperatio
What the author wants to also be justice