2 VOTE FOR BLACKBEARD THE ECONOMICS OF PIRATE DEMOCRACY

2   VOTE FOR BLACKBEARD THE ECONOMICS OF PIRATE DEMOCRACY
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a presidential candidate’s campaign tour.
Note:SE ASCOLTASSE UN DISCORSO DELLA CAMPAGNA ELETTORALE DI BARBANERA

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eighteenth-century pirate ship, the Royal Rover. Crew member “Lord” Dennis delivered the speech,
Note:IL LUOGO E IL TEMPO DI QUELLE PAROLE

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“This speech was loudly applauded by all but Lord Sympson,”
Note:IL RIVALE

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this model of democracy was staged not only on a pirate ship, of all places, but took place more than half a century before the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence
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Pirates’ institutional separation of power
Note:NN SOLO DEMOCR... ANCHE QUI PRECURSORI

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1789.
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1812.
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piratical checks and balances
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The first democracy was in ancient Athens.
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when the buccaneers began converging on Tortuga,
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Massachusetts Bay Colony—
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Puritan settlers’ church organization.
Note:L ORIGINE DELLA DEMOCRAZIE NUOVO MONDO

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the competing interests of church and crown,
Note:I PRECEDENTI NELLA DIVISIONE DEI POTERI

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In the thirteenth century the Venetian Republic developed an explicit division of power
Note:VENEZIA

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under ancient Athenian and colonial New England democracy only a minority could actually vote.
Note:MA IL SUFFRAGIO UNIVERSALE

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Pirate democracy was radical,
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“they acknowledged no countrymen”
Note:MOTTO COSMOPOLITA

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A pirate, another state official declared, is “denied common humanity,
Note:IL DISPREZZO X I PIRATI

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abominable Society,” but it was a society nonetheless.
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One Pirate, One Vote:
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how to engage a potential target, the method to pursue when chasing a target or being chased by authorities, and how to react if attacked,
Note:LE DECISIONI

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no time for disagreement or debate
Note:LA VELOCITÀ....IL SEGRETO DEI CRIMINALI

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“But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Note:IL PARADOSSO DEL POTERE NELLE PAROLE DI MADISON...CONTROLLARE I CTRL

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Unconstrained governments in many of these countries prey on their citizens,
Note:STATI SUBSahariani

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This solution was democracy. As Madison put it, “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control
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If citizens can popularly depose their leaders and replace them with new ones, leaders who want to retain their positions of authority must refrain
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pirates required the unrestricted right to depose any captain for any reason.
Note:LA GARANZIA

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Captain Benjamin Hornigold’s crew, for example, deposed him from command because he “refused to take and plunder English Vessels.”
Note:ESEMPIO

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For instance, Captain Charles Vane’s “behaviour was obliged to stand the Test of a Vote, and a Resolution passed against his Honour and Dignity … deposing him from the Command.”
Note:ALTRO ESEMPIO

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In a few cases pirate crews physically punished their captains for behavior they deemed inconsistent with their interests. Oliver La Bouche’s crew, for example, deprived him of his captainship and flogged him for attempting to desert them.
Note:NN SOLO DEMOCRAZ

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The specter of pirate popular opinion looming over them like the Sword of Damocles, pirate captains faithfully executed their crews’ wills.
Note:UNO SPETTRO SI AGGIRA X LA NAVE

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Their lodging, provisions, and even pay were similar to that of ordinary crew members.
Note:PARITÀ ASSOLUTA DEI BOSS....NN COME SUI MERCANTILI

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unlike on merchant or Royal Navy vessels, “any body might come and eat and drink” with the captain as they please.
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sleep with rest of the crew
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The Separation of Piratical Powers
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“The constant aim is to divide and arrange several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other—that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.”
Note:HAMILTON VUOLE AGGIUNGERE QUALCOSA AL CTRL DEMOCRATICO

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The primary “other officer” pirates constituted for this purpose was the quartermaster. The way this office worked is straightforward.
Note:IL PRIMO CONTROPOTERE

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power to allocate provisions, select and distribute loot (there was rarely room aboard pirate ships to take all they seized from a prize), adjudicate crew member conflicts, and administer discipline to the quartermaster,
Note:CONTENUTI DEL SUO POTERE

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We may say, the Quarter-Master is an humble Imitation of the Roman Tribune of the People; he speaks for, and looks after the Interest of the Crew.”
Note:IL TRIBUNO

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Under pirates’ system of divided power, crew members democratically elected both captains and quartermasters. Indeed, pirates often elected quartermasters to replace deposed captains. After Charles Vane’s crew removed him from command, for instance, it elected its quartermaster to captain in his place.
Note:IL GIRO DI VALZER

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Three Cheers for Criminals?
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Because they were absentee owners, merchant shipowners confronted what economists call a “principal-agent problem” with respect to the crews they hired.
Note:IL PROBLEMA DEI MERCANTILI

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Opportunism included negligence in caring for the ship, carelessness that damaged cargo, liberality with provisions, embezzlement of freight or advances required to finance the vessel’s voyage, and outright theft of the vessel itself.
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Centralizing power in a captain’s hands to direct sailors’ tasks, control the distribution of victuals and payment, and discipline and punish crew members allowed merchant shipowners to minimize sailor opportunism.
Note:IL RIMEDIO...UN BUON MANAGER

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To align their interests with their captain’s interests, owners used two devices. First, they hired captains who held small shares in the vessels

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PRIMO INCENTIVO

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Second, whenever possible, absentee owners appointed captains with familial connections to one of the members of their group.
Note:SECONDO INCENTIVO

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Reducing the captain’s power over victuals, payments, labor assignment, or discipline, and vesting it in some other sailor’s hands instead, would reduce the captain’s power to make sailors behave in the absentee owners’ interest.
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while merchant ship autocracy overcame the principal-agent problem absentee owners confronted with respect to their crews, in doing so it created potential for a different kind of problem we’ve already examined: captain predation.
Note:PROBLEMA COLLATERALE DEI MERCANTILI

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Predatory captains who abused their authority created the miserable situations for sailors discussed in chapter 1. Some of these captains, such as the sadistic Captain Norman, were bad people.
Note:I SADICI

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pirates jointly owned and operated their ship themselves. As historian Patrick Pringle described it, in this sense a pirate ship was like a “sea-going stock company.”
Note:AZIONISTI A BORDO

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In short, because pirates stole their ships they could organize their polity democratically.
Note:IN BREVE

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Merchant sailors, recall from chapter 1, could at least appeal to government to prevent captain predation. As we already saw, in some cases such appeal was useless. But many other times it was effective. Pirates, in contrast, couldn’t appeal to government to protect them from tyrannical captains
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pirate democracy didn’t emerge out of pirates’ adherence to romantic democratic ideals about man’s right to have a say in who governs him. It emerged out of pirate profit seeking à la the “invisible hook.”
DEMOCRAZIA E MANO INVISIBILE

ABORTO E BAMBINO

Come si spiega il fatto che quanto più cresce il disinteresse per l'aborto, tanto più cresce la sacralizzazione del bambino?

Ipotesi testabili?

2 PIU' DUE UGUALE CINQUE

Vivete in un mondo dove ogni volta che unite due coppie di oggetti simili ne spunta regolarmente un quinto. Potete forse dire che 2 + 2 = 5 ?

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IL SUCCESSO DELLE CRIPTOVALUTE

IL SUCCESSO DELLE CRIPTOVALUTE

Causa: la crisi del liberalismo.

Ci si prepara al "fugone" dal neo-populismo?

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F donne e competizione

Le donne si scoraggiano prima quando competono

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MALEDETTO MCDONALD’S

MALEDETTO MCDONALD’S
Ovunque sei McDonald's è una scommessa sicura. All’estero cerchiamo rifugio lì dal pericolo di un pasto rischioso. Odiamo McDonald's, ma odiamo ancora di più l’incertezza.

Per la pizza, stesso discorso.

FORMICHE

Fissa un formicaio: una macchina perfetta.
Fissa una formica: una macchina impazzita.

LAVORATORI DIPENDENTI

I lavoratori dipendenti muoiono prima.
Il fatto è che non controllano la loro vita, e questo li uccide. O meglio, non hanno l’illusione di controllarla. L’illusione del controllo è la più potente forza vitale nelle nostre mani, non distruggiamola volendo guardarla da vicino.

A CHE SERVE PREGARE?

A CHE SERVE PREGARE?

Il nostro nemico è la coincidenza: vediamo facce anche guardando le nuvole.

E se ce ne sono due vediamo due facce. Dopo poco le due facce si stanno scambiando un’occhiata. E i proprietari stanno pensando qualcosa e tra poco agiranno così e così.

Il nostro nemico sono le coincidenze e per dissolverle ci inventiamo storie.

Ad ogni disastro imprevisto entriamo in crisi, tutto ci spinge a vederci dietro un piano, una persona, un’intenzione. Iniziamo a cercare qualcuno da incolpare.

La preghiera serve a sconfiggere questo demone potentissimo.

F l'arte del compromesso

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HL 2@@@@@@@ IL POTERE DELLE MINORANZE ORGANIZZATE NEL MONDE DELLE RETIIL POTERE DEL CONTAGIO

Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoking section—Your food choices on the fall of the Saudi king—How to prevent a friend from working too hard—Omar Sharif’s conversion—How to make a market collapse
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ensemble behaves in ways not predicted by its components.
Note:SISTEMA COMPLESSO

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Studying individual ants
Note:L'ASSURDO APPARENTE

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This is called an “emergent” property
Note:LE PROPRIETA' DELL'INSIEME

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The rule we discuss in this chapter is the minority rule, the mother of all asymmetries.
Note:LA MADRE DI TUTTO

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a naive observer (who looks at the

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standard average) would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority.
Note:L'ILLUSIONE CHE MASCHERA LA SERVITù

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I realized that I had been drinking kosher liquids without knowing it.
Note:MINUSCOLA ED ESOTERICA INDICAZIONE SULL'ETICHETTA

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CRIMINALS WITH PEANUT ALLERGIES
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A kosher (or halal) eater will never eat nonkosher (or nonhalal) food, but a nonkosher eater isn’t banned from eating
Note:MEGLIO ADEGUARSI ALLA MINORANZA

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kosher.

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A disabled person will not use the regular bathroom, but a nondisabled person will use the bathroom for disabled people.
Note:ALTRO ESEMPIO

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Which explains why it is so hard to find peanuts
Note:GLI ALLERGICI COMANDANO

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on U.S. airplanes and why schools are often peanut-free

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Let us call such minority an intransigent group,
Note:GLI INTRANSIGENTI

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If people following the minority rule lived in ghettos
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Muslim population is only 3 to 4 percent, a very high proportion of the meat we find is halal.
Note:IN GB

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“organic” food companies are selling more and more products precisely
Note:ALTRA MINORITY RULE

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big agricultural companies foolishly believed that all they needed was to win the majority. No,
Note:LA MAGGIORANZA NON CONTA

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the spread of automatic shifting cars is
Note:ALTRO ESEMPIO

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those who can drive manual shifts can always drive automatic, but the reverse is not true.
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flexible voters can also vote for that extreme faction,
Note:GLI INDIFFERENTI IN POLITICA

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THE VETO
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this explains why some fast-food chains, such as McDonald’s, thrive.
Note:NO VETO

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McDonald’s appears to be a safe bet. It is also a safe bet in shady places with few regulars
Note:AL RIPARO DAL RISCHIO

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Italians are seeking refuge there from a risky meal. They may hate McDonald’s, but they certainly hate uncertainty even more.
Note:SCUDO

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Pizza is the same story:
Note:ALTRO RIFUGIO

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“Once you have 10 percent or more women at a party, you cannot serve only beer. But most men

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will drink wine. So you only need one set of glasses if you serve only wine—the universal donor, to use the language of blood groups.”
Note:MEGLIO IL VINO DELLA BIRRA

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the Khazars when they were looking to choose between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
Note:ALLA RICERCA DI UNA RELIGIONE

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LINGUA FRANCA
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one of the persons in the room doesn’t speak German, the entire meeting will be run in…English, the brand of inelegant English used in corporations across the world.
Note:IL MONDO DELLE CORP TEDESCHE

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asymmetric rule that those who are nonnative in English know (bad) English, but the reverse—English speakers knowing other languages—is less likely.
Note:ASIMMETRIA

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Simply, when the Persians invaded Babylon they found an administration with scribes who could only use Aramaic and didn’t know Persian, so Aramaic became the state language.
Note:LA DIFFUSIONE DELL ARAMAICO

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This led to the oddity of Aramaic being used in Mongolia,
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Greek replaced Aramaic as the lingua franca in the Levant, and the scribes of Damascus maintained their records in Greek. But it was not the Greeks who spread Greek around the Mediterranean, but the Romans who accelerated the spreading of Greek,
Note:GRECO

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GENES VS. LANGUAGES
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Genes follow majority rule; languages minority rule. Languages travel; genes less so.
Note:GENI E LINGUA...COME SI DIFFONDONO....EFFETTO RETE E CONCORRENZA

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THE ONE-WAY STREET OF RELIGIONS
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under Islamic law, if a non-Muslim man marries a Muslim woman, he needs to convert to Islam—and if either parent of a child happens to be Muslim, the child will be Muslim.
Note:PRIMA ASIMMETRIA NEL CFR CON I MUSULMANI

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becoming Muslim is irreversible, as apostasy is the heaviest crime under the religion, sanctioned by the death penalty.
Note:SECONDA ASIMMETRIA

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Under these two asymmetric rules, one can do simple simulations and see how a small Islamic group occupying Christian (Coptic) Egypt can lead,
Note:FOOM

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the religion has weaker rules: the mother is required to be Jewish.
Note:EBREI

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the Druze, the Ezidi, and the Mandeans
Note:RELIGIONI GNOSTICHE ESTINTE X SCARSO EFFETTO RETE

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these three religions require both parents to be of the faith, otherwise the child and the parents say toodaloo to the community.
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Little by little a Christian or Jewish family engaging in a Marrano-style conversion becomes truly converted, as, a couple of generations later, the descendants forget the arrangement of their ancestors.
Note:MARRANI...IL FINTO DIVENTA VERO...POTERE DELL IRREVERSIBILITÀ

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the original spread of Christianity in the Roman empire was largely due to…the blinding intolerance of Christians; their unconditional, aggressive, and recalcitrant proselytizing.
Note:TESI

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The “persecution” of the Christians had vastly more to do with the intolerance of the Christians for the pantheon of local gods than the reverse. What we read is history written by the Christian side, not the Greco-Roman one.
Note:LA XSECUZIONE DEI CRISTIANI

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Purely monotheistic religions such as Protestant Christianity, Salafi Islam, or fundamentalist atheism accommodate literalist and mediocre minds that cannot handle ambiguity.
Note:TESI SUL MONOTEISMO... SCARSO ECLETTISMO

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For Islam itself is ending up being taken over (in the Sunni branch) by purists simply because they are more intolerant than the rest:
Note:POCHI E INTOLLERANTI...I PREDESTINATI

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DECENTRALIZE, AGAIN

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if one needs, say, a 3 percent threshold in a political unit for the minority rule to take its effect, and on average the stubborn minority represents 3 percent of the population, with variations around the average, then some states will be subject to the rule, but not others. If, on the other hand, we merge all states in one, then the minority rule will prevail all across. This is the reason the U.S.A. works so well.
Note:METTERE DIGHE ALLA RETE...DIVERSIFICARE...ANTIFRAGILE

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IMPOSING VIRTUE ON OTHERS
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How do books get banned? Certainly not because they offend the average person—most persons are passive and don’t really care, or don’t care enough to request the banning.
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all it takes is a few (motivated) activists for the banning of some books,
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The same seems to apply to prohibitions—at least to the prohibition of alcohol in the United States,
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the formation of moral values in society doesn’t come from the evolution of the consensus. No, it is the most intolerant person who imposes virtue on others precisely because of that intolerance.
Note:EVOLUZIONE DELLA MORALE

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Once a moral rule is established, it will suffice to have a small, intransigent minority of geographically distributed followers to dictate a norm in society.
Note:HALAL E HARAM

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“Why didn’t the Poles in Warsaw help their Jewish neighbors more?,” responded that they generally did. But it took seven or eight Poles to help one Jew. It took only one Pole, acting as an informer, to turn in a dozen Jews.
Note:LA RESPONSABILITÀ DI UN POPOLO

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STABILITY OF THE MINORITY RULE, A PROBABILISTIC ARGUMENT
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do not steal (at least not from within the tribe); do not hunt orphans for entertainment; do not gratuitously beat up Spanish grammar specialists for training, instead use boxing bags (unless you are Spartan and even then you can only kill a limited number of helots for training purposes), and similar interdicts.
Note:OVUNQUE SEMPRE LE STESSE REGOLE MORALI

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they are black-and-white, binary, discrete, and allow no shadow.
Note:MARCHIO

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it would be vastly more likely that these values emerged from a minority than a majority.
Note:TESI

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He has two options. The first is cyanide, which obeys a minority rule: a drop of poison (higher than a small threshold) makes the entire liquid poisonous. The second is a “majority-style” poison; it requires more than half the ingested liquid to be poisonous in order to kill.
Note:IPOTESI....AVVELENATORE CHE VUOLE FAR FUORI TUTTI

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conditional on the outcome that all people drinking the soda having been killed, the evil man opted for the first, not the second option.
Note:HOLMES INDAGA SULLA STRAGE....COSA INFERISCE?

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majority rule leads to fluctuations around the average, with a high rate of survival.
Note:L IMPROBABILITÀ DELLA REGOLA DI MAGGIORANZA

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POPPER-GOEDEL’S PARADOX
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Can democracy—by definition the majority—tolerate enemies?
Note:BELLA DOMANDA

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“Would you agree to deny the freedom of speech to every political party that has in its charter the banning of freedom of speech?”
Note:RIFORMULAZIONE

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intolerant about intolerance?”
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the incoherence that Kurt Gödel (the grandmaster of logical rigor) detected in the United States Constitution while taking the naturalization exam.
Note:INCOERENZE

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Karl Popper independently discovered the same inconsistency
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Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, it will eventually destroy our world. So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities.
Note:TESI

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The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.
Note:LA POSIZIONE DI T

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IRREVERENCE OF MARKETS AND SCIENCE
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price changes reflect the activities of the most motivated buyer and seller. Yes, the most motivated rules.

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REGOLA DI MERCATO

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Markets react in a way that is disproportional to the impetus.
Note:L IMPETO

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The overall stock markets currently represent more than thirty trillion dollars, but a single order in 2008, only fifty billion, that is, less than two-tenths of a percent of the total, triggered a drop of close to 10 percent, causing losses of around three trillion dollars.
Note:ES CONTAGIO

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Why did the market react so disproportionately? Because the order was one-way—stubborn: they had to sell and there was no way to convince the management otherwise.
Note:CONTAGIO

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The market is like a large movie theater with a small door.
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when someone shouts “fire”—because
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Science isn’t the sum of what scientists think, but exactly as with markets, it is a procedure that is highly skewed.
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Had science operated by majority consensus, we would be still stuck in the Middle Ages,
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UNUS SED LEO: ONLY ONE BUT A LION
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Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Note:MOTTO

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has,” wrote Margaret Mead.
NN SOLO GUERRA

CHI USERA' LIBRA?

CHI USERA' LIBRA?

Quasi sicuramente gli emigrati per le rimesse nei loro paesi: passerebbero da commissioni intorno al 7-8% a zero.

Forse chi abita nei paesi con inflazione oltre il 10%.

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ALTRUISMO RAZIONALE: AIUTARE GLI ULTIMI RINVIANDO TUTTO IL PIU' AVANTI POSSIBILE.

ALTRUISMO RAZIONALE: AIUTARE GLI ULTIMI RINVIANDO TUTTO IL PIU' AVANTI POSSIBILE.

La persona generosa e razionale, invece di donare denaro in beneficenza, lo investie in banca a interesse composto, quindi lo dona in beneficenza il più tardi possibile (appena prima di morire, e possibilmente anche dopo affidandolo ad un trust). L'interesse è più alto della crescita PIL e i poveri saranno sempre con te.

Allo stesso modo, il politico razionale che crede di poter beneficiare davvero gli ultimi redistribuendo risorse con la tassazione, la rinvierà il più possibile: oggi esenzione totale per il big business e tassazione pesante tra un secolo. Le grandi imprese sanno come investire in modo fruttuoso i loro soldi: se semini bene oggi, il tuo raccolto di tassatore sarà abbondante domani. I poveri, tanto, saranno sempre con te, non devi avere fretta e cadere nellatentazione narcisistica di esibire qui ed ora la tua generosità.

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INDIGNATI A 2 EURO LA SCENATA

INDIGNATI A 2 EURO LA SCENATA

Il mercato è ovunque, ogni cosa ha un prezzo. Lo spiega bene il concetto di cui al link.

Il treno che ti porta al lavoro ritarda di 20 minuti e tu ti incazzi. Quanto faresti pagare per aggiungere 20 minuti al tragitto che ti porta allavoro? E' inutile che ti incazzi con la hostess, che sconto ti basta per viaggiare in aereo separato da tua moglie? Qualcuno ti passa davanti in fila al supemercato e tu dai in escandescenze, ma quanto pagheresti per fare 2 minuti in meno di coda? Il latte in frigo va a male e tu diventi una bestia. Ma quanto costa un litro di latte fresco? Devi cambiare l'olio dell'auto e la cosa ti scoccia tremendamente, ma quanto dài al benzinaio che lo fa per te? Le continue pubblicità ti pesano e sei un lamento continuo? Bene, quanto costa la versione premium? La lettura del giornale ti indigna e non ti trattieni? Quanto pagheresti per evitare di essere oltraggiato da simili notizie?

Non posso dirvi quante volte ho visto persone fare scenate epiche per problemi che,visti nella logica WTP, non superavano i 2 euro. Ma dirò di più, sono convinto che molti pagherebbero pur di esibire laloro indignazione almeno una volta al giorno.

Certo, chi ragionare in termini di WTP va incontro alla solita lamentela: monetizzare tutto è disumano, monetizzare tutto crea conflitto. Personalmente non posso fare a meno di notare una vasta gamma di "rabbie", una volta monetizzate, diventano così ridicole da essere più facili da superare.

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HL RULE 2 TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING

RULE 2   TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING
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WHY WON'T YOU JUST TAKE YOUR DAMN PILLS?
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We are trained to assume that the failure of patients to follow professional advice is the fault of the practitioner,
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Recipients of transplants still suffer the effects of organ rejection, despite the existence and utility of these drugs. It’s not because the drugs fail (although they sometimes do). It’s more often because those prescribed the drugs do not take them.
Note:UN CASO ANCORA PIÙ ECLATANTE DI TRASCURATEZZA

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People are better at filling and properly administering prescription medication to their pets than to themselves. That’s not good.
Note:PRIMA L ALTRO DI ME

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The Oldest Story and the Nature of the World
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God created the cosmos, using His divine Word, speaking light, water and land into existence,
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and ended with man, male and female,
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In the second, older, “Jawhist” version, we find another origin account, involving Adam and Eve (where the details of creation differ somewhat), as well as the stories of Cain and Abel, Noah and the Tower of Babel.
Note:LA SECONDA...GENESI 2 11

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Because we are so scientific now—and so determinedly materialistic—it is very difficult for us even to understand that other ways of seeing can and do exist.
Note:MA CHE SIGNIFICA CREARE CON LA PAROLA?

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Being was understood as a place of action, not a place of things.31 It was understood as something more akin to story or drama.
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that which we subjectively experience can be likened much more to a novel or a movie than to a scientific description of physical reality.
Note:IL SOGGETTIVO DOMINA NELL ANTICHITÀ

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unique, tragic, personal death of your father, compared to the objective death listed in the hospital records;
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The Domain, Not of Matter, but of What Matters
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One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two,
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It’s the foreigner, the stranger, the member of another gang, the rustle in the bushes in the night-time, the monster under the bed,
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Order, by contrast, is explored territory. That’s the hundreds-of-millions-of-years-old hierarchy of place, position and authority.
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structure of society.
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structure provided by biology,
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Order is tribe, religion, hearth, home and country.

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You’re in order, when you have a loyal friend, a trustworthy ally. When the same person betrays you, sells you out, you move from the daytime world of clarity and light to the dark underworld of chaos,
Note:PENSA AL LICENZIAMENTO

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Order is the Shire of Tolkien’s hobbits: peaceful, productive and safely inhabitable, even by the naive.
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Order is the stability of your marriage.
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New ideas can destroy old and comfortable certainties.
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when our ancestors dwelled in trees, and snakes struck in a flash.32
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Chaos and Order: Personality, Female and Male
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Chaos and order are two of the most fundamental elements of lived experience—two of the most basic subdivisions of Being itself. But they’re not things, or objects,
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Perception of things as tools, for example, occurs before or in concert with perception of things as objects.
Note:LA XCEZIONE... OGGETTO NN VIENE MAI PRIMA

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Perception of things as entities with personality also occurs before perception of things as things.
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“the hyperactive agency detector” within us.
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the most significant elements of our environment of origin were personalities, not things,
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They have been male or female, for example, for a billion years.
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the category of “parent” and/or “child” has been around for 200 million years.
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Our brains are deeply social.
Note:GLI ALTRI SONO IL NS HABITAT

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understanding is dealing with and coping with and not merely representing objectively.
Note:CAPIRE IL MONDO

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Order, the known, appears symbolically associated with masculinity (as illustrated in the aforementioned yang of the Taoist yin-yang symbol). This is perhaps because the primary hierarchical structure of human society is masculine,
Note:IL MASCOLINO COME ORDINE

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men are and throughout history have been the builders of towns and cities, the engineers, stonemasons, bricklayers, and lumberjacks, the operators of heavy machinery.
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Order is God the Father,
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This is partly because all the things we have come to know were born, originally, of the unknown,
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Women are choosy maters (unlike female chimps, their closest animal counterparts39).
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It is for this reason that women on dating sites rate 85 percent of men as below average in attractiveness.
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Women’s proclivity to say no,
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Star of David is, for example, the downward pointing triangle of femininity and the upward pointing triangle of the male.
Note:I SIMBOLI PIÙ NOTI INCORPORANO QS OPPOSIZIONE

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the same for the yoni and lingam of Hinduism
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Egyptians represented Osiris, god of the state, and Isis, goddess of the underworld, as twin cobras with their tails knotted together.

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same symbol was used in China to portray Fuxi and Nuwa,
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familiar Western images of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and the Pietà both express the female/male dual unity,
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Elkhonon Goldberg, student of the great Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria, has proposed quite lucidly and directly that the very hemispheric structure of the cortex reflects the fundamental division between novelty (the unknown, or chaos) and routinization (the known, order).
Note:NEUROFISIOLOGIA

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We eternally inhabit order, surrounded by chaos. We eternally occupy known territory, surrounded by the unknown.
Note:RIPETIAMO

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To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure.
Note:COME CONVIVERE CON QS DUALISMO

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Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
Note:L INSUFFICIENZA DELLA SINGOLA PARTE

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The Garden of Eden
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the emergence of order from chaos,
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Paradise serving as habitable order and the serpent playing the role of chaos.
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It just does not appear possible, even for God himself, to make a bounded space completely protected from the outside—not
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The snake inhabits each of our souls. This is the reason, as far as I can tell, for the strange Christian insistence, made most explicit by John Milton, that the snake in the Garden of Eden was also Satan, the Spirit of Evil itself.
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The worst of all possible snakes is the eternal human proclivity for evil.
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As the great Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn insisted, the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
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And even if it were possible to permanently banish everything threatening—everything dangerous (and, therefore, everything challenging and interesting), that would mean only that another danger would emerge: that of permanent human infantilism and absolute uselessness.
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do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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As the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov advised, “If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in act one, it must be fired in the next act.
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Eve immediately shares the fruit with Adam. That makes him self-conscious. Little has changed. Women have been making men self-conscious since the beginning of time. They do this primarily by rejecting them—but they also do it by shaming them,
Note:SCATTA L AUTOCOSCIENZA

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Dr. Lynn Isbell, professor of anthropology and animal behaviour at the University of California, has suggested that the stunningly acute vision almost uniquely possessed by human beings was an adaptation forced on us tens of millions of years ago by the necessity of detecting and avoiding the terrible danger of snakes, with whom our ancestors co-evolved.
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is so commonly shown in medieval and Renaissance iconography holding the Christ Child in the air, as far away as possible from a predatory reptile, which she has firmly pinned under her foot.
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The Naked Ape
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My son figured out that he was naked well before he was three. He wanted to dress himself. He kept the washroom door firmly shut. He didn’t appear in public without his clothes.
Note:ESPERIENZA XSONALE

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Naked means vulnerable and easily damaged. Naked means subject to judgment for beauty and health.
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living—and
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Abandon all ideals of beauty, health, brilliance and strength? That’s not a good solution.
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Thank God for John von Neumann! Thank God for Grace Kelly and Anita Ekberg and Monica Bellucci! I’m proud to feel unworthy in the presence of people like that. It’s the price we all pay for aim, achievement and ambition.

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I PORTENTI

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The first woman made the first man self-conscious and resentful. Then the first man blamed the woman. And then the first man blamed God.
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And then God banishes the first man and the first woman from Paradise, out of infancy, out of the unconscious animal world, into the horrors of history itself.
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Why should anyone take care of anything as naked, ugly, ashamed, frightened, worthless, cowardly, resentful, defensive and accusatory as a descendant of Adam? Even if that thing, that being, is himself?
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only you know the full range of your secret transgressions, insufficiencies and inadequacies.
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Good and Evil
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Dogs are predators. So are cats. They kill things and eat them. It’s not pretty. But we’ll take them as pets and care for them, and give them their medication when they’re sick, regardless. Why? They’re predators, but it’s just their nature. They do not bear responsibility for it. They’re hungry, not evil.
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Unlike us, predators have no comprehension of their fundamental weakness, their fundamental vulnerability,
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Only man will inflict suffering for the sake of suffering. That is the best definition of evil I have been able to formulate.
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And who would dare to say that there was no element of voluntary choice in our evolutionary, individual and theological transformation?
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no one understands the darkness of the individual better than the individual himself. Who, then, when ill, is going to be fully committed to his own care?
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A Spark of the Divine
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The moral of Genesis 1 is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good. This is true even of man himself, prior to his separation from God. This goodness is terribly disrupted by the events of the fall (and of Cain and Abel and the Flood and the Tower of Babel), but we retain an intimation of the prelapsarian state.
Note:LA PAROLA

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Their goodness was something bestowed, rather than deserved or earned. They exercised no choice.
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But maybe it’s not better than, for example, goodness genuinely earned.
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Back is the way forward—as T. S. Eliot so rightly insisted—but back as awake beings, exercising the proper choice of awake beings, instead of back to sleep:
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If we lived in Truth; if we spoke the Truth—then we could walk with God once again, and respect ourselves, and others, and the world. Then we might treat ourselves like people we cared for.
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In the areas where Christianity emerged two thousand years ago, people were much more barbaric than they are today. Conflict was everywhere. Human sacrifice, including that of children, was a common occurrence even in technologically sophisticated societies, such as that of ancient Carthage.59 In Rome, arena sports were competitions to the death, and the spilling of blood was a commonplace.
Note:L INIZIO

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the primary moral issue confronting society was control of violent, impulsive selfishness and the mindless greed and brutality that accompanies it.
Note:PRIMA CURA

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It is easy to believe that people are arrogant, and egotistical, and always looking out for themselves. The cynicism that makes that opinion a universal truism is widespread and fashionable.
Note:OGGI...ANCHE SE LA VIOLENZA È SUPERATA PER QUESTIONI PRATICHE

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they shoulder intolerable burdens of self-disgust, self-contempt, shame and self-consciousness.
Note:MA MOLTI HANNO IL PROBLEMA OPPOSTO

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They are excruciatingly aware of their own faults and inadequacies, real and exaggerated, and ashamed and doubtful of their own value.
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the idea of virtuous self-sacrifice is deeply embedded in Western culture
Note:L INFLUENZA DELLA CRISTIANITÀ

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“doing unto others as you would have them do unto you”
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these statements has anything to do with being nice.
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both are equations, rather than injunctions.

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It is much better for any relationship when both partners are strong.
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As Jung points out, this means embracing and loving the sinner who is yourself, as much as forgiving and aiding someone else
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This is most clearly evident, perhaps, in the aftermath of suicide, when those left behind are often both bereft and traumatized.
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you have a spark of the divine in you, which belongs not to you, but to God.
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In my clinical practice I encourage people to credit themselves and those around them for acting productively and with care,
Note:PERDONARE SE STESSI

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Humanity, in toto, and those who compose it as identifiable people deserve some sympathy for the appalling burden
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We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself.
Note:RISPETTO DIGNITÀ

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You need to consider the future and think, “What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly?
Note:CONSIDERATI COME TUO FIGLII E GUARDA LONTANO

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You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain for yourself, so that you don’t end up resentful, vengeful and cruel.
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You must discipline yourself carefully.
Note:AUTOCONTROLLO

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Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself.
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Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.”
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That would give you a Meaning, with a capital M.
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