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1831 Weds. 26 January
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F35º at 7 35/.. and hard frost and fine morning - left my note for ‘monsieur monsieur Monod, Faubourg Saint Martin no. 83’ and out at 7 55/.. to the Muette gate reading as I went along (beyond the bannière) Le Temps - back at 10 - breakfast - M. Pelletier at 10 35/.. 2nd lesson - was going very well with at 11 35/.. my lesson when very small note from Mrs. Hamilton dated last night - ‘would you like call with me on Lady Granville? She wishes to make the acquaintance - and if you would come for me tomorrow at 1/2 past one, we should be sure to find her - yours sincerely’ - sent her back 1/2 her own paper to say I was very much engaged at the moment and could only
In Margin: Began with P- Pelletier at page 57 Brard and should have done to page 82, if not interrupted
send her back 1/2 her own paper to say thank you, I will be with you in an hour that is, at half past one’ - inadvertence - it should have been I would be with her in 1 3/4 hour i.e. at 1 1/2 - however I was in the midst of my lesson and a solution of arragonite in nitric acid, and was obliged to send away Pelletier and think of ordering carriage and dressing - note some time ago from one of the Miss Monod’s for her father to say that young Waterhouse had been seized some days ago with fièvre scarlatine assez forte mais qui Dieu merci n'a point été assez grave pour occasionner des inquiétudes serieuses; il entre maintenant en convalescence, and ne tardera pas, nous L'esperons, à recouvrer sa sante, and son entrain ordinaire’ - thought I should have known all about it from Mr. John Waterhouse ‘qui a soigné son frère avec une tendresse presque maternelle’ or would have let me know -
Wrote the above of today till 12 25/.. - then dressed - off at 1 1/4 en passant put into the post my letter written last night to ‘Monsieur Antoine, Clavet, chef [Quviner] de marbre, à Saint Béat, Haute Garonne’ - at Mrs. Hamilton’s at 1 1/2 - she ready and we drove immediately to the embassy - Lady Granville - not well - bad cold - not up - left my card with Mrs. Hamilton’s name written on in pencil - then to Lady S- de R- [Stuart de Rothesay] found Lord S- [Stuart] and Mr. Hamilton with her - shook hands with the latter talked to and very good friends with the former who staid longer than usual before leaving the room Lady S. de R- [Stuart de Rothesay] still looks ill - asked if I had got my book (meaning Knight on the phallic worship) no! - not time yet - Lord S- [Stuart] said there was a very indecent print plain to the meanest capacity he would commission Wharry to get the book if I liked - said thanks - had I known this sooner might have been glad to accept the offer - but it was now too late, and I had contrived about the thing - did not quite but did almost hint that I should buy it myself - said nothing about its being to be sold tonight - Lord S- [Stuart] paid 150/. for his copy Wharry said 3 ladies (booksellers) had bid against him - one of them a Melle. Charpentier - I was foolish ever to have named the thing at all but said not a word of this of course Observed that I should not have named it to anyone but Lady S [Stuart] but that I did not care about Lord S [Stuart] knowing and that I knew she told him everything -
It seems Mr. Gregory is getting anti-christian - says Christianity is worn out etc. etc. was on the point of saying nothing nothing astonished me and what Mr. Frisell had insinuated about our 2 proprietors (Mrs. Hamilton had gone in to the children’s dinner and left us tête à tête) when Lady Collin came in (I had met her coming away from Mrs. Hamilton’s), and staid some time, and the subject was not resumed - Lady C- [Collin] an elderly rather tiresome person what Mrs. Hamilton called a twaddle and Lady S [Stuart] tho very civil to her seemed to think the same I see I really must learn to be always poli[t]e lapolitesse francaise and that of English high life -
Left Mrs. H- [Hamilton] with Lady S- de R- [Stuart de Rothesay] at 4 and drove to the de Noés - sat 1/2 hour with them all - the Baron de N- [Noé] there - and Comte de N- [Noé] came in just before I came away - all very civil and glad to see me - then called and sat 10 minutes with Mme. de Bourke - I think she hoped I was going to take her apartment and when I said I would come to inquire after her health perhaps it was some disappointment - but she was very civil - came to the drawing room door with me tho’ still very gouty and confined to the house - home at 5 - changed my dress Had put on white frilled handkerchief and moire watered silk gown first time since Miss MacL [MacLean]’s death that I was out of mourning - dinner at 5 20/.. skimmed over the paper -
Off at 6 1/2 and at the book sale (it had just begun) in 1/4 hour - our clocks 10 minutes too soon - bought 22 volumes great and small - Knight on the phallic worship numero 753 was almost at the end of the sale - De Bure who sells this library du feu M. Gosselin bid against me that I soon saw I should not get the work for nothing - there was a pause on 150/. de B- [Bure] saying to a gentleman behind him for whom I think he was bidding? that they had once sold the work for 150/. and it was rare, but he had not heard of its being sold for more - the gentleman said it was a work the author had given it to his friends and it was not published - on which de B- [Bure] bid again, and it was knocked down to me at 199/25. - the fact was, I was determined to have it, but had hesitated once or twice, purposely, as if to let him have the book, so that perhaps he durst not run greater risk in running the thing up to a higher price - numero. 722 up at 600/., only 400/ being bid was withdrawn till next Friday week end of the sale - M. de Bure saying the work was published at 4000/. they had sold a copy (some time since) to the duc de Richelieu for 3000/. and he would have this present copy advertised in the papers - it should be made more known in the hope of getting nearer the value of it -
Home at 9 1/4 - my aunt inquired eagerly if I had got the book but was probably surprised at the price paid - Shewed her all the prints - She never found out the indecency and asked to have the book to read when my newfangledness had gone off on which I foolishly said it was not a book to be left about or perhaps for her to read however I afterwards plastered this off as well as I could and read aloud to her (leaving out and altering a little as I went along) nearly the first hundred pages I read of the god Priapus with perfect ease well knowing she would understand nothing about it and turned off the exception ability on the reflections touching religion and talked of hearing today at the Stuarts that some Englishmen read bad books and got to think and say Christianity was worn out -
Came to my room at 11 10/.. F35 1/2º at 11 20/.. p.m. very fine frosty night and fine frosty day - tho’ it had been snowing between 7 and 9 and the streets where whitish when I returned from the sale - and we had a few little flakes of snow in returning from the de Noés - found they had left 5 cards while I was out - ‘Mme. la Comtesse de Noé 5 rue de L’université’ ‘Le Comte de Noé Pair de France’ same address ‘Mme. la Vicomtesse de Noé and underneath in pencil la Vicomte de Noé’ and another card ‘Le Vicomte de Noé with in pencil above La Vicomtesse de Noé rue de L’université no. 5’ and ‘Le baron de Noé Lieutenant aux Hussards de Chartres’ with written in pencil above ‘Messrs de Noé’ - cards enough at all rates -
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It’s Not Easy For Gen Z
"They are perhaps the most brand-critical, bullshit-repellent, questioning group around and will call out any behavior they dislike on social media.”
- Lucie Greene
Born between the years 1997 and 2012, Generation Z is described as being more racially and ethnically diverse than any previous generation. Moreover, it is said that they are on track to be the most well-educated generation yet. I believe that this is proven true with the following statistics:
77% of registered U.S voters ages 18-23 do not approve of Donald Trump’s presidency. Gen Z is not afraid to speak up about a corrupt government that does selfish political acts. Similarly here in the Philippines, a huge percentage of the Gen Z population do not approve of Duterte’s presidency, especially with how he handles the present pandemic. I’m proud to be a part of that huge percentage as I do not like to be politically ignorant with how the Philippine government is acting despite the drastic increase in COVID19 cases quotidian. Implementing the Anti-Terrorism Bill, shutting down ABS-CBN, allowing foreign nationals to enter the country starting August 1, and not implementing mass testing still are only few of the actions that prove his incompetency as president. #OustDuterte
Gen Z are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to enroll in college. Despite the implementation of the K-12 program, Gen Z are still pursuant of their education. Even presently, despite the pandemic, they are doing online learning (if they have the resources they need to be able to do so) just so they can continue attaining their education. I am among the students who are currently doing online learning despite its newfangledness.
Gen Z are more likely to say blacks are treated less fairly than whites. Police brutality and racially-motivated violence was and is happening in the U.S. Racial discrimination is an issue that we still face up to this day, and many members of Gen Z are fighting in support of black lives. I personally am an advocate of #BlackLivesMatter as well, so I’m included in this fight against racism. ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Roughly half of Gen Z approve of same-sex marriage. Moreover, they think that society is not accepting enough of those who do not identify as a man or a woman. Gen Z fights for the equal rights of members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and does not tolerate the injustices that the community face quotidian. I’m included in this fight for #LGBTQrights as well, especially that I am a member of the community itself. 🌈
These are only a few, but you can deduce from these statistics that Generation Z is not just smart, but truly a “woke” generation as well.
For myself, I’ve observed that the aforementioned characteristics of Gen Z are all applicable to me. By knowing the social issues that I stand for, it helps me to understand my strengths and weaknesses. What are relevant social issues that I’m unaware of or simply ignorant about? This allows me to be more socially aware of my surroundings and of the world, because I believe that today, we have this sort of innate responsibility to help others and fight for equality and justice.
However, despite all of this, Generation Z is facing a lot of challenges in today’s world. In fact, they have it hard and truly, it is not easy for Gen Z.
The COVID-19 caused a huge decline in employment rate among Gen Zers. It is said that the group’s eldest members are graduating into a labor market that has been devastated by the global pandemic; there are fewer jobs and internships available for them. Resolution Foundation suggested that the pandemic could affect young people’s pay and job prospects in the long-term. Moreover, from another research, they also said that those who leave education for work during recessions suffer from lower employment rate and pay for years even after the event. All of this could mean that Gen Zers are highly prone to experiencing financial instability today and in the future. If this is the case, Gen Z will have to take alternative courses of action in order to survive in the expensive real world. They may resort to freelancing, or even doing business themselves. Nowadays, there are businesses that require little to no capital to operate, thus it is an option that members of Gen Z can take into consideration as their livelihood.
Resources, especially housing, are only growing more limited and scarcer everyday. Economics says that resources are scarce, thus it should be used optimally. In our case, we can’t even truly optimally use those resources because they are hard to obtain. This fact is made a laughingstock by Monopoly when they made the “Monopoly for Millennials” with a tagline that says “Forget real estate. You can’t afford it anyway.” If millennials are experiencing this problem, what more for the younger generation, and the other generations to come? Our population is only growing every second, and cost of living is following suit. This is our reality now, but nevertheless we have to make do with what we have been given. Measly as though it may be, Gen Z will just have to be very resourceful.
Generation Z has to live on Earth in its current state - warm, polluted, and destructed by human activity. Did you know that in 2016, the World Health Organization said that 92% of the world’s population is breathing contaminated air? This is a scary situation to be in for the younger generation. It makes you wonder: what kind of Earth is in store for them? Will there even be an Earth for them and the next generations in the future? It is alarming, truly, that the younger generation is peering into an uncertain future because of how we are sucking the life out of Mother Earth for our own selfish gains. 🥀All of us should work together to conserve the planet that we live in. Even simple things will have a snowball effect, such as reducing our plastic usage and maintaining the cleanliness of our surroundings. Heck, not using plastic straws is still essentially a big help. #SaveTheTurtles 🐢
Generation Z receives a lot of discrimination from older generations because of the differences in opinions. Generation Z are often told that they are still too young to be vocal about rampant and prevailing social issues, and that they are still inexperienced to say and feel certain things. Despite having already proven ourselves to others, our potential and capabilities are still being limited and underestimated by the older generations just because of our young age. But age is just a number, and it mostly does not prove anything at all. Moreover, Gen Z shouldn’t be trifled with. We have the passion to ameliorate the world, and to make a better life for everyone in the future. We are going to continue proving others wrong. We will show that we are a generation of hope.
Lastly, because of their very technology-based lifestyle, it is mostly Generation Z that has to face the negative effects that social media brings. It is indubitable that social media is practically a part of their life; it is an important platform for them. However, social media can also be used as a medium for spreading misinformation, cyberbullying, harassing, etc. And these can cause damages to the life of a person that may even be permanent. That is why we have to be very careful with the things we say online, and never encourage and tolerate nefarious acts like those aforementioned. Let us try to make social media a safe online platform for everyone.
So what are my five key takeaways from these challenges? It is that the call to action is imperative; the time to act is now, and we need to take responsibility for effecting changes in the things that need to be changed. We have to make a better world materialize, and it is up to us to actualize it.
1. Consider diving into the world of entrepreneurship. If we cannot find a job, let us be the one to provide jobs through operating a business. More businesses means more workforce needed.
2. Be resourceful, and look for substitute goods if possible. Moreover, never forget to use the resources that we have optimally and not wastefully. We are a very innovative generation. Let us use our brilliant minds to come up with ways to reduce the scarcity of resources.
3. Participate in environmental advocacies, and help take care of Mother Earth even if it is just through simple things. Mother Earth can survive without us, but we cannot survive without her. That is why it is important that we do not take her for granted before things are too late. Let us preserve the place that we call home for the future generations to come.
4. Do not mind the discrimination that we receive from older generations, and focus on what we can bring to the table instead. We are on track to be the most well-educated generation yet, and the older generations can’t ever dispute that fact. We have a lot to offer to the world, and we can be a beacon of hope for the future. We don’t have to keep living up to their standards, because sooner or later, we will be the standard.
5. Social media will never not be a part of our lives. It is pretty much a need now because of its versatility and functionality in helping us with almost anything and everything. So we can use social media unsparingly, but let us never forget that we also have to use it wisely.
But ultimately, I think that the most important takeaway from this is that although life is not easy for us Gen Z, we have to embrace the hardships of it all and use it as a weapon of hope to fight against inequality, injustice, and hatred. As Lucie Greene described us, let us be “the most brand-critical, bullshit-repellent, questioning group” the world has ever seen.
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Exhilaration
Some days my words are too self-indulgent. They probably shouldn't see the light of day—today or maybe ever. At the very least, the lines of writing need to steep longer in the soupiness of thought, where more time in the cooker, so to speak, and some stirring of the pot might render flavor and texture worthwhile for consumption in the wider world. Today is one of those days when the words need to simmer.
I began this morning by writing about the exhilaration of the past couple of months. Challenging, economically and emotionally? Of course. Felt within the maw of widespread death and suffering? Yes, I’m fully aware. But even the most familiar vistas, literal or figurative, have been transformed. They bristle with consequence, with an intensity that I haven’t felt in years.
How to describe, though, the deeply felt, the raw, personal vitality of the moment, while being mindful of others’ loss, whether of income, or life, or flexibility in their day, which might now be severely constrained because of kids or illness or eviction?
Free of that self-consciousness, I wrote that these days are made for travelers—not simply those able to contend with the newness of a place but those who thrive within the mystery and unknown that unfolds over a path never before taken. Emily Dickinson captured it:
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea -
Past the Houses -
Past the Headlands -
Into deep Eternity -
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from Land?
Yes, stepping from early March, when the first cases were reported in New York City, into April under stay-at-home orders felt like I was a land-bound person taking to sea for the first time. The parade of sirens and daily headlines about the epidemic cast a morbid shadow. January felt like a cul de sac, though, so I appreciated whatever steered me out of the suburbia of my soul. The first league out from Land was most definitely divine intoxication.
I empathize with the anxiety of those bristling at the closures and desperately grasping for a return to normal. What I’m feeling as exhilaration—the newfangledness, the uncertainty—sits, I suspect, like bricks on the minds and shoulders of many others. I’m not talking of the Koch-funded gun-nuts converging on state capitol buildings, demanding haircuts and the right to spread disease. I’m talking about the workers denied unemployment benefits, the parents working from home while caring for bored or curious children, those that feel the new, the unknown, as the precipice of potential demise. I feel exhilarated; I suspect they may not.
And in writing that paragraph, perhaps, I found a way out of my morning impasse, my self-indulgence. My exhilaration arises, in part, from my material conditions, which are relatively sound—I say relatively because I’m a writer, after all.
I can pay my rent and bills—for now. I can afford booze—for now—on the days when I need to take the edge off of my anxiety or to turn the volume up on these feelings of relative enchantment with the world. I may not have a long-term future—who does working in journalism—but for the moment, I’m not on the precipice of material neglect. I have the means and the mental bandwidth, in other words, to feel exhilarated.
An all-too-frequent misinterpretation of that very fine and often-cantankerous 19th-century visionary Karl Marx suggests that he was unconcerned with the needs and desires of the individual. It’s simply not true. He focused on the broad context of society in order to understand the conditions that constrain individuals and limit the possibility of achieving personal liberty.
“The human being,” he wrote, “is in the most literal sense a [political animal], not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
Society shapes, constrains the individual. It can also set the conditions for individual flourishing. The realm of freedom comes, Marx described, when the realm of necessity and the mundane is left behind.
I’m hardly free of society’s material constraints—and I certainly have to navigate the mundane all too often. But I’m doing okay enough to feel some exhilaration.
So I've spent most of my day considering the need to destroy the impediments to achieving the divine intoxication described by Dickinson. Imagining a universal right to exhilaration still doesn't feel selfless enough.
Perhaps, though, the thoughts need more time to simmer.
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Peak toy season is upon us. Over the next six weeks, 40 to 60 percent of American consumers will purchase at least one toy during the holiday season. As a rule, toys are a bit like potato chips – it’s hard to stop once you’ve started.
Some of those toys will be for children and some will be for the adults themselves (admit it, you’re thinking about getting a new lightsaber), but on average Americans buy between $25 and $30 billion in toys per year, according to The Toy Association. Over 75 percent of those dollars are spent during the holiday season, not counting video games or video game consoles.
And while everyone has heard some version of the grandparent’s lament – that kids these days have too many fancy toys – maybe there’s something to it. One can buy his or her child a smartwatch (outside of Germany, anyway), a kit that will help them build their own computer, dozens of toys centered on teaching the elemental aspects of computer coding, stuffed animals that need to be hatched out of eggs and dolls with a surprising number of biological functions. Kids’ toys have, in fact, become very high-tech these days, a far cry from the Cabbage Patch dolls that nearly provoked toy store riots 30 years ago.
And yet, for all the newness and newfangledness of toy innovation, it is remarkable how many of the classics are still not only available, but thriving. They may have gotten a modern update or two – some have undergone several – but their central appeal is the same, and their markets remain avid.
Some favorites …
The Erector Set
The original STEM toy, and part of the first class of toys inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame (yes, that exists), has actually been around for over 100 years. The first sets were originally patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut in 1913. It is also believed to have been the first toy ever advertised in a national campaign with a nationally recognized slogan.
The Erector sets of today are built and manufactured by the Meccano company of France, and have come a long way from the simple model-building kits first introduced to the world 103 years ago. These days, one can build a functioning crane, car or rollercoaster with an Erector set.
Fun Fact: The inventor of the Erector set, A.C. Gilbert, was briefly known as the man who saved Christmas, after his successful lobby of the Council of National Defense to reject a proposal to ban toy production in favor of wartime-related materials during World War I.
Barbie
Barbie is turning 58 this year, but she’s looking amazingly good for her age. By Mattel’s estimates, there are three Barbie dolls sold per minute in the world every day. From that single blonde doll released at the dawn of the 1960s, there are now 800 different dolls that bear Barbie branding.
Barbie has changed a lot over time. Her historical measurements (11.5 inches) would translate to a woman who is 5 feet 9 inches tall with a 36-inch chest, 18-inch waist and 33-inch hips – measurements that various doctors ruled verging on impossible for a healthy human female. So, Barbie got a slight upgrade in 2001, which tweaked her waist, and then a diversification in 2016, which saw Barbies of various heights and shapes hit the market.
And when not being the world’s most recognized doll, Barbie is also behind a content empire, has been painted by Andy Warhol and has been banned in Saudi Arabia.
She was also in the National Toy Hall of Fame first class – because Barbie gets around.
Fun Fact: The original Barbie sold for $3.00. The most expensive Barbie was created in partnership with Australian jewelry designer Stefano Canturi to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The doll sold for $302,500 at auction in 2010.
Legos
Despite the fact that Legos have been around since 1932, they still make the Washington Post‘s annual hot Christmas toy list for children.
And despite the number of ways Legos have expanded past their early days, the brand is remarkably consistent. Every Lego ever built remains compatible in some way with every other Lego ever created.
Because, despite their simplicity – apart from specialty pieces, all Lego sets break down to a six-variation set of 2 x 4 bricks – that simple shape array can be combined 915,103,765 ways.
And counting: The math is actually still out on that one, according to a documentary on the subject.
But while the exact number of possible Lego combinations is up in the air, the near limitless public enthusiasm for them is not. Lego actually had a rough year – it ousted its CEO executive in August and posted its first sales decline in more than a decade.
But one can never count Lego out: Those people are, quite literally, very crafty. And it seems its Women of NASA line is a bonafide hit, as the $24.99 set sold on Amazon within 24 hours. It will likely be impossible to get by the holiday.
Fun Fact: A 12-year-old child prodigy from California used his LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set to make a functional Braille printer when he saw fliers asking for donations to help the blind. The Lego set retails for about $350. Braille printers retail for around $2,000 online.
Play-Doh
Toy concepts don’t get much simpler or more straightforward than Play-Doh, which nonetheless has managed to remain one of childhood’s more hugely popular toys for the last 60 years.
Since hitting the market in 1956, Play-Doh has sold more than 3 billion cans of the compound. The brand has reported double-digit revenue growth for the last three consecutive years, including a 32 percent increase in 2015.
“It becomes a rite of passage for every kid to play with Play-Doh,” Greg Lombardo, vice president of marketing for the brand, told Fortune in an interview.
To maintain its seemingly magical staying power, Play-Doh’s owner continually tries to innovate to keep it relevant. They rolled out a new version called Play-Doh Plus, and an arts-and-crafts line called DohVinci, which is intended for older kids.
But, Lombardo noted, the real magic of Play-Doh – for all users – is that it is a totally free-form toy, and that its only limits are the user’s imagination.
Fun Fact: Play-Doh was not invented to be a toy; it was first sold to consumers as a wallpaper cleaner.
So, if you’re feeling overwhelmed by your holiday shopping list and not sure if your kids need one more toy that connects to the internet, it turns out that not all toys have to be high-tech. In fact, high tech has the problem of being highly breakable, whereas one would need some pretty heavy-duty firepower to destroy an Erector set or even dent a Lego.
Which is perhaps why these toys continue to stand the test of time so well: For all the ways they’ve changed, they remain the same in their ability to both delight children and survive to a second playtime.
Something to keep in mind, perhaps, before making the next pickup of toys.
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