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Liberalism, Limited welfare state, through the vehicle of, Fear of Old Age…

- - - - Consumerism
        
        redefining citizens as consumers / users
        
        promotion of consumption as a virtue
        
        Materialism
        
        Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little. – Epicurus
        
        We desire something beyond the basic needs of the body, but we cannot conceive of fulfilling it without relying on the tangible things we frequently indulge in. As a result, each attempt to satisfy this longing only intensifies a state of restlessness.
      - ownership as a expression of economic freedom
  - - - Merit defined as productivity (output, economic gain)
        
        a form of self-exploitation - results over process
        
        Burnout
        
        We have created an achievement society, that fetishises accomplishments and praises those who grind and bleed for their ambition
        
        Ambition
        
        Insatiability
  - - - Turning digitised private human experience into a commodity
        
        Big data and deep learning
        
        Predictive technology
        
        generative technology
        
        AI
        
        Impact our perception of reality
        
        Deep Fakes
        
        The intention economy
      - The attention economy
        
        sensationalism drives engagement
        
        Misinformation
        
        The Media
        
        Fame and Public Interest
        
        When entertaining becomes the default for all experiences it becomes synonymous with valuable. This means the press becomes organs of entertainment rather than truth telling
        
        Online dissemination of information
  - - - Profit motive
        
        Money and Wealth
        
        Confluence of wealth
        
        Emerging monopolies
        
        Unequal class system
        
        monetary calculation rationalising
        
        Commodification of everything
        
        People become high or low value
        
        Erosion of civic bonds
        
        Environment
        
        Private human experience
        
        Information
      - you're not rich, no matter how much you have, if you're only as rich as everyone else.
        
        In an individualist society, something’s value lies in its exclusivity—its rarity. This drives our insatiable desire for consumption and a need for distinction which ultimately alienates from the shared humanity that connects us all.
- - - - Solutionism
        
        Technology
        
        social interaction at the cost of convenience
      - Innovation over tradition
        
        Traditionalism
        
        Communalism
        
        Emmanuel Levinas
        
        Collectivism
  - - - Monoculture of Conformiity
      - imposing a dominating culture - power differential
        
        Colonialism
- - - - Responsibility
      - Self-sufficiency
        
        Invulnerability
    - - Outward appearance: facade
        
        Liberating or Suffocating? - makeup
      - Superiority
        
        Contempt
- - - - equal value of every vote
        
        Interpersonal equality
        
        moral practice
        
        Civility
        
        fosters through mutual respect
        
        Social Cohesion
        
        Communality
        
        Tolerance
        
        collective commitment to the common good
        
        Solidarity
    - - Public justification
        
        Relinquishing of some individual freedom
        
        Social Contract theory: consenting to organised governance for mutual benefit, protection of natural rights, and the establishment of legitimate authority.
        
        Government takes retribution on the individual for breaking the social contract
        
        representation of societal views of the time
        
        Crime
        
        Policing
        
        punishment
        
        to deter and reform society
        
        Consequentialism
        
        Retributive Justice
        
        punitive punishment
        
        Inflicting equal suffering (retrospective)
        
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        The adversarial framework of the justice system can reduce complex realities into binary outcomes—guilty or innocent, victim or villain. This framework overgeneralises individuals, casting them not as nuanced humans but as fixed, one-dimensional characters.
        
        To punish someone is to deprive them of liberty or property, or even, in some jurisdiction, of life. These things are wrongs in themselves, and therefore need a special justification if society is going to do them. To justify punishment, society must first define crime which can be an issue in of itself.
- - - - Public Distrust
        
        inability to effectively deliberate
        
        Political Instability
        
        It is very easy to assemble a coalition of the disaffected because a whole group of people might be against something, but they may be against it for mutually incommensurable reasons. It creates an instability within democracy without any work being done.
        
        The Western world is suffering a loss of civility; a deficit of good manners, what has happened is a decay of what makes the social machine function – a breakdown of the mutual tolerance and respect that allowed room in a complex plural society for individuals to live their own lives in peace.
- - - - personalisation of content
        
        Echo chambers
        
        Confirmation bias
        
        Epistemic Fracture
        
        Epistemological Skepticism
        
        We are not in a time where worldviews are coalescing around anything but are instead becoming further apart to the point where there is no shared common ground. This radical epistemic fracture means that the individualism of the worldview that has been produced is now reflected in our responses to that individualism because they are highly individualised.
        
        What underlies this is the fundamental persistence of not just class divisions but ever widening class divisions that have brought us to the point where not only can we not imagine them culturally but one of the reasons that we don't confront them is that we never encounter them.
      - addictive quality
        
        Short form content as a digital slot machine
        
        not knowing what is next, play the odds - just swipe
  - - - likes, comments and reposts
        
        Although we are highly connected to one another, this connection often makes us feel deeply disconnected because not only can we measure how we are being seen and recognised, but in extension we can quantify how much we are deliberately ignored.
    - - Doomscrolling
        
        FOMO - keeping up with the Jones'
        
        Envy