DAY 192

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells · 1895
The Time Machine
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Where does the progress and prosperity of humanity ultimately lead us?

📝ONGO's Reflection

I picked up the book drawn by the intriguing premise of time travel, but what I met was a startlingly sharp social critique. Through the two races of the future world, the Eloi and the Morlocks, Wells warns of the bleak end that may await a humanity sunk in the swamp of comfort and inertia. I felt to the bone that true progress of civilization must be something beyond physical convenience. It is a captivating classic that makes us look back on our present not with vague hope but with keen vigilance.

— ONGO · Curator
"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
"인류는 지성과 에너지를 통해 편안함을 추구하지만, 그 편안함이 결국 그들을 나약하게 만들었다."

🌱Apply It Today

Check whether today's comfort and convenience are quietly making tomorrow's you helpless, and practice building your own self-reliance by taking on a small inconvenience.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

靑出於藍
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청출어람 · beyond the master
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