History Quotes Flashcards
Society Represses the Individual, and the individual represses itself
Freud: individuals have primitive desires that society represses and so the individual in turn represses that desire to follow societal expectations.
a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a wish
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.
Unheimlich (uncanny)
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
let no grass grow here, leave it as an open wound
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
doomsday machine
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
eyes-only
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.
genes
traits that are passed on through genetic transmission and people evolve based off of chance and natural selection
Meme
unit of cultural transmission, or ideas, that evolves much faster than genes, examples of memes are clothes, ideas, money things like that
social credit score
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.
panopticon
all seeing eye
creditable deterrence
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)
“I have become death, the destroyer of worlds”
What Oppenhiemer says he has become after the first Trinity test, regretting all the lives he realizes the nuclear weapons are going to take
the most extraordinary thing in the universe
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
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”
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
ich bin ein berliner
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
state of nature
Locke: a condition in which no governments or politics or laws existed at all
nasty, brutish, and short
what Hobbes says life in a state of nature would be. Thought that it would be a miserable state of war
first strike
first person to do everything in their power to debilitate the enemy and prevent retaliation against the attacker.
first use
first person to use nuclear weapons during war
schuld
guilt
schulden
debt. or basically the guilty person was simply the person who was not able to get rid of their debt.
white dielectric material
Penzias and Wilson were trying to find the intensity of radiation from a supernova remnant and birds pooped on it
age of divergence
the beginning of the industrial revolution when the West gets stronger than the East
age of convergence
Rise of China, India and other eastern countries catch up in strength to the West
The Singularity
13.7 billion years ago, our universe emerged from a point of infinite density and when this exploded
Big Bang
what happened after the singularity explodes and creates the universe
Anthropocene
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
Thucydides trap
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
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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
here there is no why
Primo Levi saying that the holocaust was an awful thing that really had no reason to it.
“20 years too late. It should’ve been stopped the day after trinity”
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
“man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
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.
we are freaks of nature (we are moral creatures in an amoral world)
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
nothing perfectly straight can be made out of crooked timber
Kant: basically saying that you can’t make a good government out of something that has a bad foundation
forests are first and forests are last
forests were the first thing and after we are gone they will still be here.
longtermisim
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.
absolute power corrupts absolutely
Lord Acton: give a good man power and it will turn him evil
Humans lack a killing inhibition
Lorenz: Humans aren’t supposed to kill each other evolutionarily, but now we can with weapons
humans are eusocial
Wilson: Humans are naturally eusocial and need others to surrvive
