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“The centre of the village is a void elegantly furnished with a bloody suction.”

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Ghosts is a compilation of eerie tales that delve into the realm of the supernatural, examining the phenomenon of spirits and the unexplained occurrences that transcend the boundaries of the living world. more

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“All your life you have lived for society. You have lived for your relatives, your employer, your parents, your spouse, your children, your community, your country and even your dead ancestors, because that is what you have been told is the right thing to do. One fine day, your life is going to end, and you are going to finally realize, you have lived for everyone, except yourself.”

Society Reality Check Brutal Truth

Author:Anubhav Srivastava

“We are to declare the words of God into the heavens and the earth, mankind, nations, government, congregations, and people everywhere to set in place foundations for stable government and society.”

Nations Society Righteousness God S Kingdom

Author:Dutch Sheets

“When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman thing" and hence unimportant. Our patriarchal system has dismissed menstrual pain as both exaggerated and a sign of weakness, and at times, perversely, as something women deserve (punishment for "original sin," I suppose).”

Society Misogyny

Book:Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

Source: Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

“I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things.”

Society Lockwood

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country- from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie. The whole country was a lie; its freedom was a lie, a snare for pauper workingmen; its prosperity was a lie of rich employers, its justice was a lie of grafting politicians”

Society Capitalism

Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle

“Egypt is frequently described as a police state, but up close it feels as if there is no state - just a handful of strong personalities improvising their way through the disorder without a coherent long-term plan.”

Society Factories Geography

Author:Leslie Chang

“We live in a society of rationalization, not rationality. We just believe random stuff, and there's not really a logical explanation for a lot of it, but we rationalize it somehow. To be blunt, can anyone explain to me how the trans movement makes any sense? Logically, I've never gotten a real answer to that question. Whenever I ask people for an answer, they just say we should accept whatever people believe, but that's not rational. [...] The thing with crazy people is they don't put a sign on themselves saying "I'm crazy." Crazy people are completely assured that they are correct in their ideas and that everyone else is completely wrong. [...] If we had a crazy society, we would never know; if you're worried about being crazy, you are probably not crazy.”

Society Mental Illness Modernity

Author:Whatifalthist

“Without external threats and challenges people just fall apart. Imagine a video game where you start with infinite hit points, currency, and weapons. Your video game character would just turn into a complete degenerate who would just mess around out of boredom, the entire society would turn into Grand Theft Auto. Keep in mind the vast majority of people are selfish, dumb, and foolish, especially so without societies that socialize them to be better. Without external pressure, society collapses into degeneracy.”

Society Population Degeneracy

Author:Whatifalthist

“Only in the face of each other's irreducible differences can we hope to create societies that transcend their own profoundest marginalization.”

Philosophy Society Marginalization

Book:Ethics in Light of Childhood

Source: Ethics in Light of Childhood

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