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jadorelire7 января 2023 г.Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.016- jadorelire7 января 2023 г.ERUDITE: THE INTELLIGENTFACTION MANIFESTO WE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AS TRUTH: 1. “Ignorance” is defined not as stupidity but as lack of knowledge.2. Lack of knowledge inevitably leads to lack of understanding.3. Lack of understanding leads to a disconnect among people with differences.4. Disconnection among people with differences leads to conflict.5. Knowledge is the only logical solution to the problem of conflict.09
- jadorelire7 января 2023 г.It’s like we have some kind of need, once we feel that we have changed, for people to call us something different. Is it for us, to suit the way we see ourselves? Or is it for them, to force them to think of us differently? Or a combination of both?It’s these musings about names that led to the Tobias/Four divide in the first place. Four views Tobias as the name of a helpless little boy, so he chooses Four as the name of his adult self in an attempt to leave the pain behind him. It signifies his strength rather than his weakness. But what he finds is that he can’t ignore his past; it keeps creeping up on him, especially in his fear landscape. So in DIVERGENT, he “gives” Tris his old identity—he trusts her to know his vulnerable side, the side of the child and not the man. She recognizes the significance of this, which is why she starts to call him Tobias. It’s the name he gave to her, the one he trusted her with, and she begins to treasure it for that reason.Tobias is the name she chooses for him, because it represents his secret self, the one he showed her and her alone. She calls him Four when she’s with other people, to help him keep his secrets, but in her head, he’s always Tobias.Читать далее03
- jadorelire7 января 2023 г.I don’t really understand what “perfect” is. To me it’s all about virtue and responsibility; to someone else it would be about happiness and peace, and happy drugs would be pumped into the water supply—but that sounds like a nightmare, doesn’t it? Because both of us are wrong about perfect. We have no idea what it would look like, and our approximations of it are incomplete.01
- jadorelire7 января 2023 г.DIVERGENT was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn’t the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that’s just what I had when I was finished— at the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting, and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia. And then I realized that my utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating a perfect society.02
Maksimiljana15 апреля 2016 г.THOSE WHO BLAMED AGGRESSION FORMED AMITY.
THOSE WHO BLAMED IGNORANCE BECAME THE ERUDITE.
THOSE WHO BLAMED DUPLICITY CREATED CANDOR.
THOSE WHO BLAMED SELFISHNESS MADE ABNEGATION.
AND THOSE WHO BLAMED COWARDICE WERE THE DAUNTLESS.
WORKING TOGETHER, THESE FIVE FACTIONS HAVE LIVED IN PEACE FOR MANY YEARS.014- Maksimiljana15 апреля 2016 г.
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality — of humankind’s inclination toward evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world’s disarray.
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