MindMap Gallery A Brief History of Humanity Reading Notes
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Edited at 2021-07-22 22:31:47One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Reading this book begins with making sense of the characters' relationships, which are centered on the Buendía family and tells the story of the family's prosperity and decline, internal relationships and political struggles, self-mixing and rebirth over the course of a hundred years.
Project management is the process of applying specialized knowledge, skills, tools, and methods to project activities so that the project can achieve or exceed the set needs and expectations within the constraints of limited resources. This diagram provides a comprehensive overview of the 8 components of the project management process and can be used as a generic template for direct application.
A brief history of mankind
cognitive revolution
Human: an animal with nothing special about it
Secret family history
Other historically existing human species under the genus Homo
chef's race
Using fire is a big step on your way to the top of the food chain.
The cost of "thinking"
"Thinking" catapults humans to the top of the food chain
brother's keeper
The reason why Homo sapiens can conquer the world is because of their unique language
The tree of knowledge of good and evil
The legend of iconic cars
Homo sapiens’ “fictional” stories hold great power
A fast path around the genome
Homo sapiens embarked on a fast path to adopt 'cultural evolution'
history and biology
From imaginary reality to behavioral patterns, to culture, to “history”
A day in the life of Adam and Eve
primitive affluent society
The living conditions of people in primitive gathering societies are happier than those of modern people
talking ghost
Religious and cultural beliefs of people in primitive gathering societies
peace or war
Primitive gathering societies have different violent tendencies
curtain of silence
There may be many important things in the primitive collecting society, but we have no way to verify it now.
A devastating flood
Convicted
It was humans who caused the Australian mass extinction
The extinction of ground sloths
Humans bloodbathed America again
Noah's Ark
Humans have driven approximately half of the world's large creatures to extinction
agricultural revolution
Biggest scam in history
The pitfalls of luxury living
Human beings pursue a more relaxed life and move towards an agricultural society step by step, but the results are counterproductive.
divine intervention
Human beings may be motivated by faith when they teach wheat
victims of revolution
The agricultural revolution brought more disasters to poultry and livestock
Build a pyramid
The coming of the future
Under the agricultural revolution, people are worried about the future
order constructed by imagination
People create a stable and prosperous society by constructing an imaginary order
true believer
Most people believe in an imaginary order that can be maintained in the long term.
prison wall
How is order established?
make people believe in these orders
External statements must be insisted that they are absolutely true and not fiction.
The same set of principles must be thoroughly implemented in education
How to integrate into our lives
The order constructed by imagination is deeply integrated with the real world
The order constructed by imagination shapes our desires
The order constructed by imagination exists in the connection of thoughts between people
memory overload
Signed off by Cushing
People began to use early writing to record data
The miracle of bureaucracy
The emergence and development of writing gradually transformed into compartmentalized thinking and bureaucratic system
the language of numbers
In order to store and process mathematical data, people invented "Arabic numerals"
History is never fair
vicious circle
People gradually established a class system, which is still deeply affected by modern India
The American Concept of “Cleanness”
Modern America continues this vicious cycle of class systems
him and her
Gender class: almost everywhere in the world, men take advantage
sex on gender
People's imagination shapes sociological men and women
What are the benefits of being a man?
Since agricultural society, most human societies have been patriarchal societies that favor boys over girls.
muscle theory
Do men gain social rights because of their muscular strength?
gangster theory
Do men gain dominance because of their aggressive nature?
paternal gene theory
Is it because men and women have different survival and reproduction strategies?
Integration and unity of humankind
direction of history
With the altitude of a spy satellite...
What lasts a long time must be divided is only temporary, but what is long-lasting must be combined is the unchanging general trend.
global vision
Humanity wants to realize the concept of "one world"
the taste of money
How to calculate this
With the development of society and the rise of cities and kingdoms, bartering no longer met people's needs
shells and cigarettes
People create another common imagination: money
How money works
How to turn psychological imagination into physical reality
golden gospel
How did gold gradually become accepted by the world?
price of money
Everything is replaceable
Believed by all
vision of empire
What is an empire?
Empire is a political order
Cultural diversity
Flexible boundaries
Evil empire?
The empire has not only evil but also cultural legacy
This is for your own good
The empire inculcated the idea of great unification from the very beginning.
When "they" become "us"
The empire continues to inculcate the idea of great unification
good guys and bad guys in history
History cannot be simply divided into good guys and bad guys
A new global empire
Unifying the world is probably not far away from us.
the laws of religion
make the lamb silent
From pantheism to polytheism
Benefits of Idol Worship
What did polytheism bring to us?
God is the only one
Monotheism began to emerge as believers became more devoted to a single god
The battle between good and evil
Polytheism also contributed to dualistic religions
laws of nature
Religions following natural laws began to appear
When the object of worship becomes a human being
humanist religion
secret of success
The fallacy of hindsight
The significance of studying history
Clio, the Blind Goddess of History
We cannot explain the choices of history, but the choices of history are never for the benefit of mankind.
scientific revolution
discover one's ignorance
I don’t know that I don’t know
The scientific revolution is not a "revolution of knowledge" but a "revolution of ignorance"
scientific dogma
Science does not strictly adhere to dogma, but uses mathematical tools
knowledge is power
People are gradually realizing the importance of scientific research and technological development
Progressive Ideal
The scientific revolution brought good news to people
Gilgamesh Plan
The problem of death that people have been unable to solve, can technology solve it?
benefactor of scientific research
Scientific research must join forces with certain religions or ideologies before it can flourish.
The marriage of science and empire
why Europe
modern science
capitalism
mentality of conquest
Europeans admitted ignorance and then began to conquer
blank space on map
The modern mentality of "exploration" and "conquest" can be clearly seen from the evolution of the world map
like invaders from outer space
Europe is like an invader from outer space, sweeping the world in a short time
Rare Spiders, Forgotten Texts
Scientists provided Europe with a variety of practical knowledge, ideological foundations and scientific and educational tools
capitalist dogma
The pie will get bigger
People have built the global pie, which has the potential to grow bigger, so more and more people are putting their trust in the future.
Columbus also needs sponsors
The credit system encouraged European colonization
in the name of capital
Western governments are almost like unions for capitalists
worship of the free market
Capital longs for the government to rule by doing nothing and longs for a free market
Capitalist Hell
The bourgeoisie ruthlessly exploits the working class
giant ship of industry
secrets in the kitchen
The origin of the steam engine
A vast ocean of energy
We can find new sources of energy, so the total amount of energy that humans can use is actually increasing.
life on conveyor belt
While industrialization has brought development, what changes has it brought to humans and animals?
The age of shopping
In order for modern capitalism to get people to buy its own products, a new ethical concept has emerged: consumerism
a permanent revolution
modern modern
Replace the time rhythm of the past traditional agricultural society with the consistent and precise time concept of industrial society
The breakdown of families and communities
The Industrial Revolution caused the original family and community relationship system to collapse.
imagined community
The imaginary communities that are emerging now are “nations” and “consumers”
ever-changing
Over the past two centuries, the pace of change has been so rapid that the social order has been fundamentally altered.
peace of our time
Our era seems much more peaceful than before
abdication of empire
After 1945, most empires chose peaceful abdication methods
nuclear peace
The cost of war has increased significantly; the profits of war have declined; the profits of peace have been higher; pacifism has become popular;
Live happily ever after
How to calculate happiness
Money can bring happiness, but there is a certain limit
Illness can reduce people's happiness in the short term
Family and community are more important than money and health
expect
happy chemical ingredients
The body's internal biochemical system seems to have a limit on how much happiness it can achieve, and will only maintain it at a constant level
meaning of life
The so-called happiness is probably just a matter of synchronizing one's personal illusion of meaning with the prevailing collective illusion.
Knowing yourself
Scholars only started studying happiness a few years ago, and the discussion is just getting started.
The end of Homo sapiens
mice and men
People use bioengineering and genetic engineering to modify other species
Bringing Neanderthals back
Is it really possible to use bioengineering to bring Neanderthals back to life?
bionic life
Biomimetic engineering combines organic and inorganic tissues to create "biochemical humans".
another life
Completely inorganic life: computer programs and computer viruses that can evolve independently
Singular point
The possibilities of the future are too complex and, like the singularity, will be beyond our imagination.
frankenstein prophecy
There are too many possibilities in the future. History has repeatedly shown us that many things that we thought were bound to happen often fail to come true due to unforeseen obstacles, and some unimaginable plots eventually become facts.