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  • A criminally understaffed hospital on Annares has doctors working 8 hours a day
  • A-IO has free press, Thu has authoritarianism and censorship
  • A-io has heavy regulations and taxes to ensure ecological preservation
  • A-Io has state housing
  • A-Io is a capitalist utopia
  • A-Io is full of ancient history
  • A-io people are deeply misogynous
  • A-io people are hard working despite their natural incentive to work being replaced with profiteering
  • a-io responded to the overthrow of bilibili by sending their military to defend the dictatorship
  • A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
  • anarchism is closer to human nature
  • anarres has mass works projects
  • anarres is described as a settlement
  • Annares does have a power structure, public opinion, which seems inherently conservative
  • Annares function as a mining colony for urras
  • Annares has hermits
  • Annares is harsh, it even has earthquakes, perhaps to show anarchism in scarcity
  • Annares maintains a fleet of spaceships for defense
  • Annares society is coordinated by the PDC, which has no authority
  • Annaresti are diseased by fear of change, which is a form of suffering which must be pushed through
  • Annaresti are powerfully motivated by social conscious
  • Annaresti only say "thank you" for gifts
  • Annaresti rapists and murderers are sent to Asylum for therapy
  • annaresti still have tyrants, in their head, where they can't be rebelled against
  • Annaresti tend to view illness as a crime
  • Annares was given to the Odonians before they could undermine law and order on Urras
  • Annarians acknowledge the importance of birth parent contact
  • Annarians consider privacy to be excess
  • Avoidance of suffering may allow for pleasure, but not joy or fulfillment
  • beautiful description of takeoff
  • bedap posits that odonians are lying to themselves about uras
  • Before they are Hanged
  • Benbili's always having revolutions and may have odonians
  • Brotherhood begins in shared pain
  • capitalists presume normality but their worldview is thrown off by simple questions of presumed norms
  • categories and modes of odononian thought
  • causitive reversibility and sequency
  • "Change is the essential function of life" and extended life metaphor
  • childish opposition
  • Community diversity is modeled after biodiversity
  • compound interest incentivizes cheap early behavior
  • Delivered from Distraction
  • does it bother people to be surrounded by ads
  • Energy is not a limited resource
  • Everybody on annares is a revolutionary
  • Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
  • evolution in humans selects for individuals that are highly social
  • For some reason the annares science institute has dessert every day
  • general temporal theory and home
  • guilt is for profiteers
  • Help overcome fears by writing them down
  • History doesnt talk about peasants unless they threaten the State
  • human energy
  • human nature is to work hard from internal incentive
  • humans have need to do work that needs doing, well, and useless work darkens the heart
  • human suffering is near infinitely elastic
  • in a crisis annarian society reverted to utilitarianism
  • In annares all jobs are rotated annually among the 20 permanent positions at the university
  • interval is the connection between simultaneity and sequency
  • it feels like we're coming out of the cobwebs of confusion at the same time as shevek
  • It is the nature of the idea to be communicated
  • Last Argument of Kings
  • Last Lecture Series: How to Live Your Life at Full Potential
  • le guin expertly shows how much crap there is in the world by simply listing it all
  • Look not for dramatic Nat Turner events but instead squatting etc
  • loyalty asserts the continuity of past and future, binding them into a whole
  • Misogynous people have a supressed, silenced, beastialized woman inside of them
  • money enforces scarcity
  • Most of annares opposes communicating with Uras
  • Non visible forms of peasant resistance can be called Brechtien or Scheweikian
  • odo called dehumanization the creation of psuedo species
  • odo condemned prostitution and marriage
  • Odo devised society to be locally self sustaining, yet connected
  • Odonians abandoned their history and heritage
  • odonians are anarchist syndicalists
  • Odonians aren't anarcho-primitivists and believe their society depends on industrialization
  • odonians aren't attraced to watch violence for violence's sake
  • odonians are very open about sex
  • odonians consider the larger strength of men vs women to be irrelevant considering the existence of machine aid
  • odonians don't expect commands to be arbitrary
  • Odonians don't really drink alcohol but do seem to get high from meditation
  • Odonians dont use possessive words for mom and dad
  • odonians freely have sex with whatever gender
  • odonians learn about prison through the plight of their founder
  • odonians teach early that possessiveness is unnatural
  • Odonians think of excess as excrement
  • Odos epitaph: To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return
  • On Annares, Defense is a popular posting because it's romantic due to self-sacrifice
  • Peasant revolutions usually conquested or bring about a more violent society
  • People hope Shevek will provide a unified theory of time
  • physical altercations on annares are normal so long as they're fair
  • Pravic doesn't have a singular possessive verb for sex
  • pravic is an invented language
  • Pravic uses the same word for work and play
  • Promiscuity is a circle, always ending in the same place, not a journey, not a return. Relationships and simultaneity and sequency.
  • religion outside the churches, same as morality outside the laws
  • Sabul gave Sheveks books that weren't meant to be shared with other Annarians
  • Sabul has a wall in his suppression of ideas by his refusal to think
  • Sabul is clearly a profiteer
  • sequency vs simultaneity is an arrow of time vs a circle of time
  • Shevek argues that their responsibility to eachother is the source of their freedom
  • Shevek being hugely productive when encountering peers shows the importance of cooperation
  • Shevek can't decide which is heavier: his groundbreaking theory, or the freedom of a single human spirit
  • shevek compares his beating as a gift, same as sex is a gift
  • shevek considers decisions to be his birthright
  • Shevek considers his being kept by Tevek by an emergency posting to be another wall
  • shevek counters the idea of feminism earned through sexualization by calling it petty revenge
  • shevek doesnt feel human or like he can make connections to humans
  • shevek does seem to have a connection with his father
  • Shevek finds his first intellectual equals on Uras
  • shevek found the doodads on the ship to be lavish, styling, and inventive
  • shevek found the idea of clothes specifically for sleeping to be strange
  • shevek found the urasian furniture to be erotic
  • shevek had a vivid dream of a wall
  • Shevek has no choice but to trust people on Uras
  • shevek has this arithmetic square
  • shevek invokes zenos paradox to explain simultaneity and sequency
  • Shevek is doubly lonely
  • shevek is punished for egoizing
  • shevek knows he has put himself into the urasians power, their posession
  • shevek perceives walls strewn throughout the ship doctor's thinking
  • shevek resents doing physical work instead of mental work
  • Shevek shouts that urasians are imprisoned by the wall of owning things
  • sheveks protest speech talks of brother hood through shared suffering and love
  • Shevek states rights as "the right to work, to be maintained while working, and to share the product"
  • Shevek suggests that Odonians have walled themselves in with their social concious
  • Shevek thinks the hiding of information to be harmful to freedom
  • Shevek wants to bargain with the Urusians so the Annaresti can come out of exile
  • Shevek wants to start the printing syndicate so as to unbuild walls
  • Shevek went to Uras because he's driven by his need to unbuild walls
  • shevek will force the urasians to act like annaresti by being a beggar
  • shevek wonders if anarchist values can survive true hunger
  • shevek wonders if urasian males need to think of half the human race as below them
  • simultaneity and synchronicity in the dispossessed
  • Social ostracism manifests inside self and uses fear to prevent being different
  • Society can do nothing about overall suffering, so people must push through it
  • some insight into odonian spirituality
  • some odonians take permanent partners
  • someone got away with murder on the run to the spaceship
  • Subordinate classes aren't interested in changing the overall structure of State
  • takver always looks for existence outside the human boundary
  • temporal physics is inherently centralizing since it deals with human perception of time
  • The A-io university feels like a community despite being hierarchical
  • The alternative life path exercise
  • The annaresti didn't want Shevek's unified theory
  • The basis of Sheveks world view is You cant return to the same river
  • The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
  • the concept of imprisoning someone felt disgusting to shevek
  • the defense syndicate of anarres is unarmed
  • the dispossessed by ursula k leguin
  • The ends dont justify the means because there are no ends, it's all a journey
  • the freedom to break a promise gives it meaning
  • the locked door triggered a blind rage for shevek
  • The Mongoliad Book 3
  • the non auto shutoff faucet indicates to shevek a great faith in human nature
  • the odonian kids have an extended discussion on whether uras is really so bad
  • the odonians dont communicate with uras much except through the security syndicate
  • the past and future is connected to the present by memory and intention
  • The PDC is organized against politicians forming, but people like Sabul still gain power
  • The person with the best mind in the annares physics department had real authority due to being the best
  • the privatge conscious enjoys work because it knows it's the pleasure of life, the social conscious enjoys work because of societyal pressure
  • There aren't many idealists left on annares, mutual aid is necessary for survival
  • There's no binary divide between those who resist and don't
  • there were already miners on annarres when the odonians came
  • the seamed walls reminded shevek of a place he didn't want to remember
  • The social conscious was once living, but now is a machine controlled by bureaucrats
  • The typical questions about anarchism, answered by an Odonian
  • the underbelly of uras isnt real uras, it's the whole stack, rich and poor
  • the value of past, present, and future is equal, therefore the ends dont justify the means
  • the wall around the spaceport on annares
  • they have religion on anarres but its not organized
  • Thu is a socialist society
  • Thu stopped the revolution halfway
  • tirin suggested an obligation to share their superior odonian way of life
  • To be able to finally think clear mind entirely of deserving or earning.
  • To make a thief, make an owner. To make crime, create laws
  • urasians are super misogynistic
  • urasians call better higher, odonians call better more central
  • Urasians unexpectedly didn't act like egoists but treated shevek like a brother, thus odonian way is more true to human nature
  • Uras is more beautiful than Annares
  • Urusian salespeople have no relationship to the things they possess, they didn't make them
  • Urusians are confused with Annareans working people do to escape their woes if not drink
  • Urusians at home act in a very Annaresti way
  • Urusians believe existence is a struggle for dominance
  • Urusian students only have one reponsibility in school, unlike annaresti
  • Urusian studetns struggle to find reason to do a paper if they wont be graded on it
  • Vokep suggests that all women are propertarians
  • Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
  • walls are an important theme in the dispossessed
  • We Are Legion, We Are Bob
  • we treat cynicism as intelligence and optimism as naivete
  • Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
  • Women allowed themselves to become property because pregnancy possesses and enslaves them
  • work on anarres is chosen by interest, talent, and strength
  • Work with time, not against it
  • you can't bargain with a State
  • you can't buy the revolution, you can only be the revolution
  • You may spend energy working around an actual problem in your life, rather than on the problem itself