#passivity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #passivity, aggregated by home.social.
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“Do you understand what a spell is?” She shook her head. “It’s … activity. As much activity as a rock is passivity” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/01/do-you-understand-what-a-spell-is-she-shook-her-head-its-activity-as-much-activity-as-a-rock-is-passivity/ #activityAsMuchActivity #asARock #book #humorousFantasy #militaryFantasy #passivity #quote #RobertLynnAsprin #sharedUniverses #spell #ThievesWorld #understand -
Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
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@Npars01
Resonates & has a lot of explanatory power: “ The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.” ☹️
A striking but dissonant feature of US culture, as you say. 🤔
Makes what Paul writes all the more important. -
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
[Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
https://aliveness.kunnas.com/articles/copenhagen-trap
#HackerNews #CopenhagenTrap #WestStrategy #Passivity #SocialCommentary #AlivenessInsights
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-08-13), “My Day”Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/27…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bystander #disinterest #evil #injustice #karma #neutrality #passivity #standingby #uninvolvement #wrongdoing #complicity #acquiescence
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He won over the ignorant masses with shows, building projects, largesses, and banquets. His followers he bound to him by rewards, his opponents by an apparent clemency. In short, he succeeded in bringing a free country, partly because of its fear, partly because of its passivity, to an acceptance of servitude.
[Muneribus, monumentis, congiariis, epulis multitudinem imperitam delenierat; suos praemiis, adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat. Quid multa? Attulerat iam liberae civitati partim metu partim patientia consuetudinem serviendi.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 45 / sec. 116 (2.45/2.116) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #juliuscaesar #acquiescence #breadandcircuses #freedom #masses #passivity #politicalpower #populace #power #rewards #servitude
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A quotation from Roosevelt, Theodore:
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There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little place in active life for the timid good man.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/72999/#quote #quotes #quotation #action #activist #citizen #harmlessness #passivity #timidity #virtue
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A quotation from Watterson, Bill:
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CALVIN: Oh, Great Altar of Passive Entertainment … Bestow upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear thought impossible!
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4071/#quote #quotes #quotation #entertainment #incoherency #media #passivity #television #tv
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#DELAY IS CRITICAL TO EVERY PART of the Trump strategy if Biden wins in November
—delay verifying ballots,
delay with recounts,
delay with audits.Delay sows doubt.
Piling up #lawsuits does too, even if they are later thrown out.
The RNC has filed lawsuits in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and even Mississippi.
Kari Lake filed a case with the Supreme Court claiming electronic voting machines in Maricopa County are “susceptible to hacking.”
She wants the Court to outlaw electronic voting.
No matter the outcome of the case, Lake will, no doubt, blame these machines should she
—or Trump—lose their elections in Arizona.Layered over this volatile scenario is the #threat of #violence, whether Trump explicitly encourages it at the time or not.
His torrent of #lies and the #cowardice of elected Republicans who knowingly echo his lies have created a permanent threat to election workers.
Trump supporters are primed for #battle
—metaphoric and physical.A spokeswoman for Trump recently claimed that the party will be sending “#soldiers” to monitor voting.
Last week, Judge Michael Luttig remarked about the unprecedented
threat Trump presents to our judiciary and to democracy,
following Trump’s #attacks on the daughter of the judge who will preside over his hush money case.“Never in history has any person leveled such attacks and been met with such #passivity, #acquiescence, and #submissiveness by the nation,” Luttig wrote.
The same can be said for the nation’s collective reaction to Trump’s plans to steal the 2024 election.
Rich Lowry wrote last month in a National Review column titled
“How Exactly Would Donald Trump End American Democracy?”
that “we can stipulate that if Trump loses in November 👉he won’t concede the election and, in all likelihood, will engage in the same kind of pressure campaign to change the results as he did in 2020.”What Trump has planned for November and December, if he doesn’t win, is not a “pressure campaign.” It’s another #coup.
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#DELAY IS CRITICAL TO EVERY PART of the Trump strategy if Biden wins in November
—delay verifying ballots,
delay with recounts,
delay with audits.Delay sows doubt.
Piling up #lawsuits does too, even if they are later thrown out.
The RNC has filed lawsuits in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and even Mississippi.
Kari Lake filed a case with the Supreme Court claiming electronic voting machines in Maricopa County are “susceptible to hacking.”
She wants the Court to outlaw electronic voting.
No matter the outcome of the case, Lake will, no doubt, blame these machines should she
—or Trump—lose their elections in Arizona.Layered over this volatile scenario is the #threat of #violence, whether Trump explicitly encourages it at the time or not.
His torrent of #lies and the #cowardice of elected Republicans who knowingly echo his lies have created a permanent threat to election workers.
Trump supporters are primed for #battle
—metaphoric and physical.A spokeswoman for Trump recently claimed that the party will be sending “#soldiers” to monitor voting.
Last week, Judge Michael Luttig remarked about the unprecedented
threat Trump presents to our judiciary and to democracy,
following Trump’s #attacks on the daughter of the judge who will preside over his hush money case.“Never in history has any person leveled such attacks and been met with such #passivity, #acquiescence, and #submissiveness by the nation,” Luttig wrote.
The same can be said for the nation’s collective reaction to Trump’s plans to steal the 2024 election.
Rich Lowry wrote last month in a National Review column titled
“How Exactly Would Donald Trump End American Democracy?”
that “we can stipulate that if Trump loses in November 👉he won’t concede the election and, in all likelihood, will engage in the same kind of pressure campaign to change the results as he did in 2020.”What Trump has planned for November and December, if he doesn’t win, is not a “pressure campaign.” It’s another #coup.
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“Is it #worth the #fire, the #tears, the #rebellion, the #repression, the #jail, the shattered #lives? I #want to #believe #so, that the #best of #our lives #was #spent in #dignified and #fair #work, that #organized rebellion is worth it in itself, that a #new #generation of #young #people can #sweep #away the #strong #anchors of #drowsiness and #passivity. In that #desire I #stay with #you, I #warm my #hands to the fire and I #smile at you. A warm #greeting.”
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A quotation from King, Martin Luther:
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
»»»»»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/king-martin-luther/2287/#quote #quotes #quotation #calm #disturbance #justice #passivity #peace #quiet #stress #tension
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"To refuse to participate in the shaping of our #future is to give it up. Do not be misled into #passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by #despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it." - #AudreLorde, Sister Outsider, pp. 133-134
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"To refuse to participate in the shaping of our #future is to give it up. Do not be misled into #passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by #despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it." - #AudreLorde, Sister Outsider, pp. 133-134