Sublime

onde a eugenia humana é usada para justificar experimentos grotescos que culminam em confinamento, esterilização, eutanásia e assassinato em massa.

We have to take care of one another because we can die, we have to fight for what we believe in because it lives only through our sustained effort, and we have to be concerned with what will be passed on to coming generations because the future is not certain. This is the double movement of secular faith. You run ahead into the risk of irrevocable

There is no fixed American meta-narrative, but there is this ebb and flow between Adamsian veneration of piety and Franklinian love of improvisation, between Calvinist certainty and Deist doubt, between head and heart, virtuocracy and meritocracy, good character and cunning action, between security and freedom, between professionalism and amateuris

- Worried about healthspan expansion, not lifespan expansion

- Feels like death will be a relief

- Lifespan expansion leads to ossification

- People don’t really change their mindset they just die

- There should be an upper limit, not just a minimum limit for holding political office

- Max age of 10-20 years on both sides of the average age o

Consider this informal test to assess certain types of ailments, and whether a modern “fix” is called for: In environments similar to the one I am living in, did people suffer from this ailment prior to modern medicine? If yes, a novel solution is warranted. If no, look to history for the solution. Take rickets as an example, for someone of Europea

We live in an era of wealth and overabundance, but how bleak it is. There is “neither art nor philosophy,” Fukuyama says. All that’s left is the “perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”

Historian Tony Judt notes that the state of affairs was so bad in postwar Europe that only the state could offer hope of salvation to the masses of displaced people. So it did. Everything from generous unemployment insurance to universal health care became common after the war in ways that never caught on in America.