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I have come to believe, but the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that’s made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpreted as though it had an underlying truth
✏️ Umberto Eco quote critical about systems of categorizing knowledge in search of some “ultimate truth”. 👓 quote systems 🔗 View Highlight
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he was saying that we often treat our scientific knowledge or the things that we know as the ultimate truth. and he saw flaws in that.
✏️ Something i would love to followup on somehow. Feels like a good question. #addto/questions 🔗 View Highlight
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They lose their humanity really fast. It’s interesting to see how quickly the people become straight up evil in this environment because, yes, they’re trying to survive. But I think when you’re in this vast, incomprehensible vacuum where your actions or your character means nothing and there’s no world and there’s no time and there’s no you.
✏️ The move Platforms is looking at prisons and humanity. So is this feeding the idea that people can become monsters or animalistic when society is stripped from them, or are prisons purposefully designed to make them animalistic? Is it us or is it them? Feeds into the ultimate question about civilizations being what keep us from being monsters, or what control us and keep us from being truly human? #followup 🔗 View Highlight