Zi
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"04/12/2026
finished the first 20% of volume 1 after 2 yrs!
this is the first sentence of the book: “civilization is social order promoting cultural creation.”
followed by 6 great chapters:
1. what are the conditions of civilizations?
2. economic (hunting, tillage, property)
3. political (gov, state, law, family)
4. moral (marriage, religion + origin)
5. mental (letters, science, art)
6. prehistoric beginning" — Apr 12, 2026 11:29AM
"04/12/2026
finished the first 20% of volume 1 after 2 yrs!
this is the first sentence of the book: “civilization is social order promoting cultural creation.”
followed by 6 great chapters:
1. what are the conditions of civilizations?
2. economic (hunting, tillage, property)
3. political (gov, state, law, family)
4. moral (marriage, religion + origin)
5. mental (letters, science, art)
6. prehistoric beginning" — Apr 12, 2026 11:29AM
“Thought is not reality; yet it is through thought that our realities are created.”
― Don't Believe Everything You Think
― Don't Believe Everything You Think
“The worst thing in life is not shortage of food; it's human indignity.”
― Robert Kuok: A Memoir
― Robert Kuok: A Memoir
“What is a person to do, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations - to friends, to society, to themselves?”
― Educated
― Educated
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The world cannot be understood without numbers. But the world cannot be understood with numbers alone.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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