freud and friends
Robert Putnam's definition of social capital:
"features of social organization such as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit"
In The Waste Land, what the thunder said:
Da
The golden rule:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
"I had not thought death had undone so many."
Eliot
"I'm not sure about good and evil at all any more."
Fitzgerald
"Oh, might I rise again! Might I Throw off the heat of that old wine, See the new morning mass the sky With fairy towers, line on line...."
Fitzgerald
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all."
Forster
"I do not believe in Belief."
Forster
"...personal affections and aesthetic enjoyments include all the greatest, and by far the greatest, goods we can imagine...."
G. E. Moore
"...in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."
Marx
"Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life."
Marx
"The existence of revolutionary ideas in a particular period presupposes the existence of a revolutionary class."
Marx
"The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life- process, which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises."
Marx
"What does your conscience say?— ?You are to become the person you are."
Nietzsche
"...life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true."
Pirandello
"I think that life is a very sad piece of buffoonery; because we have in ourselves, without being able to know why, wherefore or whence, the need to deceive ourselves constantly by creating a reality (one for each and never the same for all), which from time to time is discovered to be vain and illusory."
Pirandello
"We believe this conscience to be a single thing, but it is many-sided.There is one for this person, and another for that. Diverse consciences."
Pirandello
The country that lost the greatest percentage of its citizens in World War I—16%, or close to one in six.
Serbia
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
Shaw
The prosperity of the 1920s brought with it
a flowering of literature and the arts
The third section of The Waste Land, The Fire Sermon, models its theme on, and takes its name from,
a sermon of the Buddha
A sense organ perceiving data arising elsewhere and admitted as a separate psychic act, according to Freud:
consciousness
"I do not believe in Belief."
forester
Julien Benda: This "formed the rift whereby civilization slipped into the world":
hypocrisy
Julien Benda sees this group as opposed to civilization, training a group of leaders who no longer believe in their own society or its values:
intellectuals
Pirandello sees as reality as
irrational, even contradictory
"...the American people are now creating on a vast scale an entirely original social structure," André Siegfried wrote in 1927, as a result of
mass production
Calvin Coolidge believed that the proper role of government was to
provide a framework within which people can seize opportunities
The vision of the anointed: the anointed are to be to the rest of the population as
shepherds are to sheep
For Pirandello, a mask over a mysterious multiplicity:
the conscious mind
Marx: The ultimate cause of workers' alienation:
the division of labor
A dream, according to Freud, is
the fulfillment of a wish
An important invention propelling the first Industrial Revolution:
the steam engine