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12 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: savages

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Savage

Rousseau's contrast between savage and peasant is a contrast between free reasoning and obedient habit; Jiang uses it to argue that children should be allowed to be explorers rather than controlled subjects.

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Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"...of men who are constantly engaged in bodily activity peasants and savages okay there are these peasants who work the farm there's savages who..."

The Poem That Makes a Robot

2026-03-25, day precision · Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire

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"...has his eyes drank in that plunder, keepsake of his own savage grief. Flaring up in fury, terrible in his rage, he cries, decked..."

Rome's Cult Of No Surrender

2024-11-07, day precision · Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome

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"...the law could you be free. Otherwise, we'd all just be savages. Okay? That's the conception of liberty. Now, the last question, then, is..."

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