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...face of nature's overwhelming power, the Chinese people empowered themselves through compassion and acts of charity. However, their lives and livelihood will remain shaky until the powers that be truly understand John Donne's remark: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." Daan Pan, Diamond Bar, California...
...dyspepsia of Del Toro's performance is partly due to the bromides he has to enunciate - that the most important quality of a revolutionary is "love," and that he's not a Catholic but "I believe in mankind" - and partly because so little information is vouchsafed about his non-jungle career or his private life. (You're about 100 mins, into Part One before Che mentions in passing that he has a wife and child back home.) Halfway through the film he has lost much of the power and poignancy you might expect of such a character...
...fear of nuclear annihilation seemed to vanish before our eyes. This genuine euphoria, embraced by left and right alike, was captured in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 best seller The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that we may have reached "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government...
...survivors in the debris and step in to control emotional crowds of victims' relatives. Through the night, loudspeaker-equipped trucks cruised the streets, appealing for calm: "The State Council, the Central Committee, the Sichuan, Chengdu and Dujiangyan governments are trying their best to help. Earthquakes are not something that mankind can avoid." But relief operations can still be bungled, and Beijing knows it can't afford that this time...
...this point—experimenting with powerful force in biology or physics can become reckless. Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Cat’s Cradle, which is about the destruction of the Earth by a substance called ice-nine, asks, “What hope can there be for mankind when there are such men…to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women...