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- usine sucrière Darboussier fusion Compagnie française des sucreries = Société industrielle de sucreries - Société agricole de la Guadeloupe (SIS-SAG) #lobby #sucre (cf 1980).
- création entreprise croisières MSC -> #tourisme de masse.
- Hong Kong : fin Épidémie de #Grippe = 1 million de morts (cf 1958 1968 1981).
- décès de #BertrandRussel
#year1970 #anthropocene #climat #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
> A wise herd will learn to tolerate the eccentricity of those who rise above the average, and to treat with a minimum of ferocity those who fall below it.
> As regards relations to other herds, modern technique has produced a conflict between self-interest and instinct.
https://russell-j.com/beginner/0944WDPI-160.HTM
https://www.threads.com/@rbreich/post/DKuc_9gst0W?xmt=AQF0U4dCChf9YcG6Y_LyBLUD2ZE42c0OhDEz3ZLaksGNiA
#RobertReich 2025 #BertrandRussel 1950 #uspol #WiseHerd #NoBrutality
> If war is ever abolished, it will have to be by the establishment of an international government possessed of irresistible armed forces. And
if war is not abolished, civilization cannot survive.
This is a painful dilemma for those whose patriotic feelings are stronger than their reasoning powers, but if it is not apprehended intellectually it will be disastrously proved by the march of events.
https://russell-j.com/SEIGI.HTM
#BertrandRussel #ラッセル #バートランドラッセル #RussellOnWar
> .. Being neither powerless nor comfortable, he becomes a reformer or a revolutionary, not a cynic. The happiness of the reformer or revolutionary depends upon the course of public affairs, but probably even while he is being executed he enjoys more real happiness than is possible for the comfortable cynic...going home to found a similar school in a reactionary part of China. He expected the result to be that his head would be cut off. Nevertheless he enjoyed a quiet happiness that I could only envy.
https://russell-j.com/beginner/HA21-030.HTM
#BertrandRussel #Cynicism
> As a member of a nation which is beginning to lose the great position it has occupied during the last two centuries, I am acutely conscious of the change in individual mentality brought about by the change in political status... The moral is : Expect of the young the very best of which they are capable, and you will get it. Expect less, and it is only too likely that you will get no more than you expect.
https://russell-j.com/NATION.HTM
#TheYouth #GreatNations #NationsAndYouths #BertrandRussel #ラッセル #バートランドラッセル
"In dreams begins responsibility" --- W.B. Yeats
"夢に責任が始まる" --- イェイツ
> ... as adult life approaches, there must be a more and more vivid realization that dreams are only valuable in so far as they can be translated, sooner or later, into fact.
> l... おとなの生活が近づけば、夢が価値を持つのは遅かれ早かれ実現できる場合に限る、ということをますますはっきりと認識しなければならない。
https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE16-070.HTM
#BertrandRussel #バトランドラッセル #WBYeats #イェイツ
#RusselOnDreams #RusselOnFancies #YeatsOnDreams
無用の用 The usefulness of the useless..
It's been a few years since I ask classes of 40 to 80 students for the meaning of "Don Quijote". They tell me it's a store. My question was intstigated by the extra (Not on the test!! just for your enjoyment if you finish quick) reading on the back side of a worksheet. While discussing proverbs in comparison with science, literature, and slang Bertrand Russel mentions Sancho Panza.^1
Sancho Panza produced more proverbs than any other character in fiction
サンチョ・パンザは、他の小説の主人公の誰よりも多くの諺を創りだした。
Bertrand Russel also refers to Don Quijote to illustrate a type of thinking.^2
The classic example of subjectivity is Don Quixote. The first time he made a helmet, he tested its capacity for resisting blows, and battered it out of shape ; next time he did not test it, but “deemed” it to be a very good helmet.
Don Quijote illustrates "subjectivity" in On Education in 1925, and decades later Albert Camus's Myth of Sisyphus uses Quijote thinking to illustrate the difference between "lyricism" and "truism":
... there are probably but two methods of thought: the method of La Palisse and the method of Don Quixote. Solely the balance between evidence and lyricism can allow us to achieve simultaneously emotion and lucidity.... If Faust and Don Quixote are eminent creations of art, this is because of the immeasurable nobilities they point out to us with their earthly hands. Yet a moment always comes when the mind negates the truths that those hands can touch....
- ^1 russell-j.com/PROVERB.HTM
- ^2 russell-j.com/wp/archives/2640
- russell-j.com/beginner/OE16-07…
- ^3 pixelfed.social/bobfisherphoto
- pixelfed.social/p/bobfisherpho…
- pixelfed.social/i/web/post/828…
#BertrandRussel #AlbertCamus #MethodsOfThought #TypesOfThinking
#RusselWithQuijote #CamusWithQuijote
"Rat Race" --- Bib Marley
1933!?
> If private enterprise is to continue, it is essential that the law should, as far as possible, compel it to confine itself to those methods of making a profit which are advantageous to the public.
> もしも私企業が今後も存続すべきであるならば,公共の利益の範囲内で,私企業が利益を上げる方法をとるよう,可能なかぎり,法的強制力を課すことが必要不可欠である
https://www.russell-j.com/PUB-PRIV.HTM
#BertrandRussel on #PrivateEnterprise
1932!!
> ... food rotting in the.. United States and Canada.. unemployed populations starving in.. the industrial regions throughout the world. If the food were brought to the starving populations, and they were set to work such as would satisfy the wants of Western farmers, the world would be the richer even if no individual capitalist made a profit..
> アメリカの西部やカナダでは,食料が（余って）腐っているのに,世界中の工業地帯では,飢えた失業者の群がひしめいている。もし余った食料が飢えた人々のもとに送られ,彼らがアメリカ西部の農民の需要を満たしうる労働に従事するならば,個々の資本家が利益をあげなくとも,世界..豊かになるであろう。
https://russell-j.com/GO-MAD.HTM
#BertrandRussel #EconomicMachine
> Those who questioned creeds weakened the authority, and might diminish the incomes, of Churchmen ; moreover, they were thought to be undermining morality, since moral duties were deduced by Churchmen from creeds. Secular rulers, therefore, as well as Churchmen, felt that they had good reason to fear the revolutionary teaching of the men of science.
https://russell-j.com/beginner/RS1935_01-010.HTM
#ScienceAndReligion #BertrandRussel #ReligionAndScience
#FlorenceNightingale and her helpers (#WilliamFarr...) are examples of people with the "Sensitiveness" #BertrandRussel though education could encourage:
> This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important... Science has greatly increased our power of affecting the lives of distant people, without increasing our sympathy for them..^1
They use science and statistics to develop advanced stage sympathy, a desirable form of sensitiveness,
^1 https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-170.HTM
@bsmall2@fedibird.com
"Neuf dixièmes de l’attrait de la #pornographie viennent des sentiments d’interdit à l’égard du #sexe inculqués aux jeunes par les puritains.”
- #BertrandRussel [1872-1970]
> Bertrand Russell has this great quote, “This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.” On the other hand, there’s this from George Orwell: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/06/25/another-regression-discontinuity-disaster-and/
#StatisticsClass #AndrewGelman #BertrandRussel #GeorgeOrwell
> Libraries and archives hold a special kind of magic, especially in an age when historical memory is eroded by an avalanche of information, the unceasing churn of emotional overload, and a culture entrapped by what #ByungChulHan calls “the immediate presence.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/24/bertrand-russell-redefining-the-public-intellectual-in-an-era-of-rising-authoritarianism/
#HenryGiroux w/ #BertrandRussel and #BishopMariannEdgarBudde #MariannEdgarBudde
1872 :
- naissance de #BertrandRussel
- naissance de Marie Diana Equi
#peinture Giant Redwood #Trees of California (1874) by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
> I will take four characteristics which seem to me jointly to form the basis of an ideal character; vitality, courage, sensitiveness and intelligence.
> 合わさって人間の理想的な性格の基礎を形作ると思われる４つの特質を取り上げてみよう。即ち,活力（Vitality）,勇気（Courage）,感受性（Sensitiveness）,知性（Intelligence)の４つである（右図参照）。
https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-110.HTM
#AimsOfEducation #BertrandRussel #バートランドレッセル #教育の目的
Shelley describes the day's work of a poet as follows:
He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow-bees in the ivy bloom
Nor heed nor see what things they be.
These habits are praiseworthy in a poet, but not - shall we say - in a postman.
シェリーは,ある詩人の日々の仕事を次のように描写している。
詩人は,夜明けから黄昏まで
湖面によって反射された陽の光が
ツタの花の蜜蜂を照らしているのを見つめる
それがいかなるものか,気にもせず考えもせず
このような習慣は,詩人の場合は賞賛すべきものであるが,たとえば,郵便配達人の場合はそうではない。
> Usually the wish to be thought well of remains one of the dominant motives throughout life. It is certainly very valuable as a stimulus to pleasant behaviour, and as a restraint upon impulses of greed. If we were wiser in our admirations, it might be much more valuable. But so long as the most admired heroes are those who have killed the greatest number of people, love of admiration cannot alone be adequate to the good of life.
https://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-160.HTM
#BertrandRussel #OnEducation #Admiration
Bertrand Russell's 'Unpopular Essays' is, to me, like most of his work, quite timeless in its insights and the way he can link complex ideas across history with present and future issues in philosophy and society. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.462628 #philosophy #BertrandRussel
