we become what we behold

VAMOS ESPAÑA‼️ 🔥 🇪🇦 ⚽

Currently thinking about how Paul Bäumer (in the 1979 film) said: "I didn't want to kill you. But you jumped in here like that... what would you have done? It's just I'd never met you before, like this; face-to-face. I just saw your rifle, your bayonet; grenades. If we threw all those away, we could be brothers. But they never want us to know that, do they? They never want us to know. We each have mothers, fathers, the same fear of death. The same pain. The same everything. Everything. Forgive me, comrade." And how Faramir (in the movie) said: "The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there... in peace. War will make corpses of us all." Currently thinking about how both Remarque and Tolkien wrote their stories after serving on opposite sides of the same war, and wondering what would have happened if they had ever met.

If you're an introvert, every party is an escape room.

Super hot take: maybe students would feel less tempted to use AI if school was about learning instead of grades.