On est passé là en vélo ce matin, pour aller au collège, avec KiD.
C'est une bonne respiration ces rues sans voitures aux heures d'ouverture des écoles !
Par contre, plus loin, c'était la guerre, comme d'hab... Un gros collège + un gros lycée ... dépose-drive à gogo dans des rue étroites ou gavées de bus scolaires ou du réseau urbain...
Ha l'olympisme, ses valeurs, cette belle fète populaire...
"On se doutait qu'il allait y avoir beaucoup de déchets, mais on s'attendait quand même à plus de civisme de la part des touristes et des Marseillais"
Les calanques couvertes de déchets.... Quelle idée de génie de faire passer la flamme Olympique par les calanques !
«Une tempête solaire d'une violence inouïe est passée à côté de la Terre en 2012. Elle aurait pu "renvoyer la civilisation contemporaine au XVIIIe siècle" si elle avait atteint notre planète, selon la Nasa»
Civilisations: The Cult of Progress
by David Olusoga
There is nothing simple about the idea of civilisation. It is a concept with multiple and contested meanings. Prefix it with the word ‘western’ and you have a whole new set of problems. Equally thorny is the belief, once commonplace, that civilisation was a singular project, a phenomenon that spread across parts of the world from a single source.
Weird old guy leaders like #Trump and #Biden are what happens when a #civilisation enters its end-phase. When it’s desperate to cling to what it had and is so unimaginative it can’t envision a new future. When vested interests anchor the status quo and new voices challenging it are seen as extremist. It’s all about protecting the status quo, and nothing embodies it better than old white guys preaching a new golden age just like the one they remember.
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization
A uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states, capital accumulation and ideological power have been steering both ecosystems and societies to the brink of collapse.
"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "
Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history
"Life expectancy at birth in Roman Egypt was just 27.3 for women and 26.2 for men."
"As the empire expanded, the Romans took the show—including all their diseases—on the road. In every location, “The empire’s arrival led to the hasty construction of the first town, in Roman style, with baths and aqueducts, drains, heating systems, and latrines. Despite the amenities, a reasonable answer to the question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ might have been ‘Got us sick.’ Mortality rates went up.”
Starry Messenger
Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish.
I’m currently waiting in line to buy beer, floating ~20’ above the ground, AT ~190 FREAKING MPH. WHY CAN’T THE USA HAVE NICE THINGS?!?!? #HighSpeedRail#Spain#Civilisation
"Where Walter Benjamin claims that, since history is written by the victors, every document of civilisation is a document of barbarism, Graeber and Wengrow seek to re-write certain foundational documents. However, while Benjamin writes against the grain in the name of the oppressed, the proletariat, Graeber and Wengrow appear to do so in the name of ‘freedom’."
> a civilisation cannot thrive if differing points of view cannot be
> heard. Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100
> years, who was herself a German Jew and experienced Nazism, said that:
> "Once something can't be said, you're already in a tyranny."
> I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest,
> because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I
> can't stand it. I been there before.
Does anyone know a good book or paper about the history of the concept of "nature"?
Is it even true that native communities lived in harmony with nature? Because that needed a distiction between a human and a natural realm. Is "nature" an invention of modernism? How did the concept change over time? Does "nature" need the abolition of the gods? Etc.
"...objects which are considered of importance for #archaeology, #prehistory, #history, #literature, #art or #science and which are designated and protected as such by a country, as part of its #CulturalHeritage.
Cultural heritage constitutes one of the basic elements of #civilisation having, inter alia, symbolic value, and forming part of the #cultural memory and identity of a country and of #humankind as a whole. It enriches the life of all people and unites them through shared..."