History Quotes

Question 1

Society Represses the Individual, and the individual represses itself

Answer 1

Freud: individuals have primitive desires that society represses and so the individual in turn represses that desire to follow societal expectations.

Question 2

a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a wish

Answer 2

when you are dreaming, it is basically your unconscious desires that were repressed due to the taboos imposed by society and the dream attempts to resolve some repressed conflict.

Question 3

Unheimlich (uncanny)

Answer 3

basically saying that humans fear what isn’t familiar and isn’t usual and so things that don’t go with the popular culture is seen as frightening and repulsive

Question 4

let no grass grow here, leave it as an open wound

Answer 4

the topography of terror basically saying that this area shouldn’t have anything grow here because nothing good should come of here and don’t let the grass cover up what happened here

Question 5

doomsday machine

Answer 5

a nuclear deterrence, a machine that as soon as there is knowledge of a nuclear attack, it will send everything it has to debilitate the enemy. would cause the world to end if used

Question 6

eyes-only

Answer 6

supposedly a document is only supposed to be seen by the president but in reality lots of other people see it and it’s not just the president.

Question 7

genes

Answer 7

traits that are passed on through genetic transmission and people evolve based off of chance and natural selection

Question 8

Meme

Answer 8

unit of cultural transmission, or ideas, that evolves much faster than genes, examples of memes are clothes, ideas, money things like that

Question 9

social credit score

Answer 9

the idea to have ratings for people based off of how they contribute to society and how well they behave, which is an idea China is adapting to build the perfect surveillance state.

Question 10

panopticon

Answer 10

all seeing eye

Question 11

creditable deterrence

Answer 11

Hobbes: the idea that you have to be willing to strike back incase of nuclear war or else other people will know that you aren’t willing to and so they will target you because they know you won’t retaliate. (Violence is strategic)

Question 12

“I have become death, the destroyer of worlds”

Answer 12

What Oppenhiemer says he has become after the first Trinity test, regretting all the lives he realizes the nuclear weapons are going to take

Question 13

the most extraordinary thing in the universe

Answer 13

Bryson: referring to the brain and how the brain has more neural connections in one cubic centimeter of the brain as there are stars in the milky way

Question 14

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”

Answer 14

Reagan: during a speech and called for the president of the soviet union to tear down the berlin wall which is known as one of the most memorable moments in berlin before the tearing of the wall

Question 15

ich bin ein berliner

Answer 15

JFK gives a speech in Berlin about how Berlin is free and should never succumb to communism and calls himself a Berliner but on accident says i am a jelly donut, 1963, shortly after the Berlin wall was put up

Question 16

state of nature

Answer 16

Locke: a condition in which no governments or politics or laws existed at all

Question 17

nasty, brutish, and short

Answer 17

what Hobbes says life in a state of nature would be. Thought that it would be a miserable state of war

Question 18

first strike

Answer 18

first person to do everything in their power to debilitate the enemy and prevent retaliation against the attacker.

Question 19

first use

Answer 19

first person to use nuclear weapons during war

Question 20

schuld

Answer 20

guilt

Question 21

schulden

Answer 21

debt. or basically the guilty person was simply the person who was not able to get rid of their debt.

Question 22

white dielectric material

Answer 22

Penzias and Wilson were trying to find the intensity of radiation from a supernova remnant and birds pooped on it

Question 23

age of divergence

Answer 23

the beginning of the industrial revolution when the West gets stronger than the East

Question 24

age of convergence

Answer 24

Rise of China, India and other eastern countries catch up in strength to the West

Question 25

The Singularity

Answer 25

13.7 billion years ago, our universe emerged from a point of infinite density and when this exploded

Question 26

Big Bang

Answer 26

what happened after the singularity explodes and creates the universe

Question 27

Anthropocene

Answer 27

the age of human beings, the period of time when humans have been on earth and how we have affected the earth and it’s environment and climate

Question 28

Thucydides trap

Answer 28

when there is an accepted world power, and a rising power that the rising and reigning power will most likely fight 12/16 so far

Question 29

Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Answer 29

to come to terms with the past. Germany’s journey through trying to overcome the past and to feel remorse for the holocaust and trying to get rid of Nazi beliefs throughout Germany

Question 30

here there is no why

Answer 30

Primo Levi saying that the holocaust was an awful thing that really had no reason to it.

Question 31

“20 years too late. It should’ve been stopped the day after trinity”

Answer 31

Kennedy tried to urge the stop the spread of nuclear weapons but Oppenheimer replies and says that it is too late, and so he’s saying that nuclear weapons should have been stopped long ago

Question 32

“man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”

Answer 32

Rousseau: man always finds himself dominated by another man. being denied equal rights and so on. he is free at birth but is chained by the laws that are not of his own making.

Question 33

we are freaks of nature (we are moral creatures in an amoral world)

Answer 33

Dillard: Humans are not like any other creatures. nature doesn’t care whether we live or die and nature cares about the species not the individual while humans care about the individual

Question 34

nothing perfectly straight can be made out of crooked timber

Answer 34

Kant: basically saying that you can’t make a good government out of something that has a bad foundation

Question 35

forests are first and forests are last

Answer 35

forests were the first thing and after we are gone they will still be here.

Question 36

longtermisim

Answer 36

the idea that what we do right now will affect the future and if we do the right things most of the people in the history of humanity will be in the future and we need to think about what is to come.

Question 37

absolute power corrupts absolutely

Answer 37

Lord Acton: give a good man power and it will turn him evil

Question 38

Humans lack a killing inhibition

Answer 38

Lorenz: Humans aren’t supposed to kill each other evolutionarily, but now we can with weapons

Question 39

humans are eusocial

Answer 39

Wilson: Humans are naturally eusocial and need others to surrvive