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globalisation, social media, money and wealth, cardinal vices, love,…

- - - - time is used in detention as a form of punishment
        
        because
        
        It’s not just taking away time from someones ordinary life, but it’s also emptying time of meaning, of emotional connection, of substance – it's emptying time of all the things that make time for us such a precious human commodity
      - the justice system acknowledges
        
        the human desire for vengence and seeks to redirect and circumscribe it to prevent ad hoc/self determined vengence and excessive
        
        and does this in order to
        
        Upholds the consistency of a political society by focusing on the restitution of the political community (forward looking)
        
        which is in contrast to
        
        pure vengeance which is consumed by the past
        
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    - - whose leaders are often the large western powers
      - global democratic deficit =. democratic power taken out of the state = gap between individual rule takers and transnational rule makers
        
        excascerbated by
        
        unaccountable and non-transparent practices
        
        no one to actually channel the vengeance between big powers
        
        re-definition of who are "the people"
- - - - knowledge seeking endeavours
  - - - leaving us resentful and defeated when we are forced to return from insubstantial and disconnected glamour to the organic reality which provides us with the tasks that call forth patience and vigour in people
- - - - democracy
        
        the point is to figure out how to arrive at a common future
        
        which lowers the stake because
        
        wins and losses are short term as there is compromise
        
        but
        
        there is now prevalent contempt for one another
        
        in which
        
        Such that disagreement now connotes some kind of moral judgement upon the person with whom we disagree
        
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        which relates to this idea of social cohesion whereby
        
        Everything that is important in human life thrives in an atmosphere of trust and social cohesion is a product of prevailing conditions of trust
        
        which is applicable to trust in the government as well
        
        Trust in government trickles down and we can see each other as co-participants and with a shared stake in the common life
        
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        an example of global democracy is
        
        democratic institutions rely on democratic ways of life
        
        When you have the procedures of democracy but you haven’t got a sense of democracy as a way of life, a regulatory system that governs not just the conditions of our common life but also that governs the condition of our daily speech (of habits, of forebarrance, of turn taking and deferrence and forgiveness). Democracy is a quotidian practice and allows the instituitions of democracy to exist
    - - modest welfare state
        
        welfare
        
        happiness
        
        we are usually concerned with the sources of happiness rather than the question of what is happiness itself - is it what benefits us? is it a state of mind?
- - - - the creation of the belief that bonds should be easy
        
        online connections make us less inclined to engage, listen and empathise with those physically/geographically with us
        
        creates bonds of disaffection (a negative bond of mutual opposition) amongst the patria
        
        patriotism: a way of establishing and valorising bonds between people in a certain geography – a solidarity that can only be preserved through civility
        
        when the bonds are profoundly exclusionary
        
        nationalism
        
        which ultimately creates a
        
        a disconnected, disembodied and disorientated sort of life, rendering humanity less mindful; where social media acts as an impoverished substitute for the real thing
        
        but at the same time
        
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      - the opportunity to play with notions of identity, commitment and meaning without risking the irrevocable consequences that ground real identities and relationships
        
        which means that there is
        
        lack of exposure to risk
        
        which means that
        
        there can be no true meaning or commitment
        
        but at the same time does not
        
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        which is related to but somewhat does not consider the fact that
        
        we play many roles in our life and social media is a place where we can experiment with those roles
        
        but if taken too far, then
        
        the interpersonal relationship becomes an interpersonal relationship of characters rather than just our actual "role", making us feel distant from each other
        
        chance and mystery of non-digital life
- - - - for example
        
        the ability to vanish the presence of another when their presence becomes burdensome
      - such as
        
        having an immobile attachment to the web of communication, music, entertainment and political information sources
        
        robs us off the social resonance that invigorates our concentration and acumen when we listen to music or watch a play
        
        but does not
        
        cuts us off from the pleasure of seeing people and from the instruction of being seen and judged by them
        
        as
        
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- - - - Images emotionally hook us as they bring us closer in proximity to what is happening but are morally fragile because they can excite but they can rarely sustain – they encourage us to solve the problem rather than investigating the issue
        
        which is an example of the idea that
        
        urgency compresses morality
        
        as there is no time to pay attention to
        
        the particularities of life, which can only be found with attentiveness, become blurred.
        
        So even when something abnormal happens it feels normal.
- - - - the audiences aspirations fall as well and they feel cheated - the influencer has indirectly promised the audience a fantasy life
- - - - which expresses itself as
      - once there is nothing left to dismantle, we become a culture that moves towards a culture that values mainly aesthetics (the "top layer")
- - - - accumulation of money becomes the sole goal of capitalism rather than the accumulation of goods
        
        but then again
        
        everyone involved is led by the invisible hand to promote the public good
- - - - reflects how we are prone to
      - but once we have all that we could have
        
        riches make us fearful as we have less to win and more to lose
        
        and we become
        
        eager for hunger, and frustrated with complacent satisfaction
- - - - and differs from liking because
        
        love has greater depth, which is to identify ourself with the subject by taking into consideration the beloveds interests or interests that are analogous to ours
        
        so we could argue that
        
        who we love is a reflection of who we are, so we are disappointed when people choose to love someone "morally impoverished"
        
        this assumes that
        
        love is a moral perception, so loving someone bad is like having a blurry lens
- - - - if left alone, we cannot accurately know ourselves in other ways as it will be too biased and that beloveds will be in the relevant respects similar to us
        
        beloveds' need to have an independent voice capable of reflecting not who one now is but an ideal for who one is to be - they reflect ourselves not through inherent similarity to us but rather through interpretations they offer of us
        
        Love and respect fixates our attention on their autonomy (self restraint)
- - - - The receiver also has obligations. They should accept the gift with enthusiasm as something is being communicated well beyond the material gift itself. The thing that gives it meaning is something far beyond the material. The act of acceptance expresses recognition, acknowledgement, but also reciprocal obligation?
    - - it is important that
        
        they remain unwritten as to remain voluntary
- - - - The spirit of something takes over the actual material value of it
- - - - determines membership in the category in terms of the presence of a belief in a distinctive kind of reality
        
        e.g.
        
        white supremacy
- - - - knowledge itself does not prompt anyone to act in this case, as our culture enjoys irony and humour, something calm and collected. yet irony does not provide any solutions and only highlights the negative. so there is no incentive to engage with politiics due to cynicism
        
        saying you enjoy something is as though you are naive and unable to critically assess/dismantle something, which is the value of postmodernism - it's as though we don't have enough spirit, grit or will that prevented us from being trapped in complacency
- - - - because of the outreach of online environments which means that
        
        you are both the small ordinary person (who has autonomy to choose what you consume and share) and the “powerful” person (who has gained this power by having the online space to create this viral and popular persona for others to hear your idea; you become the loudest person in the room; you have increased in reach which would not have been possible in the past without such technology)
        
        and this "powerfulness" is made possible by free speech
        
        The ecosystem of conspiracy theories creates its own life (Disinformation and misinformation theory is prevalent in democracy) – disinformation and misinformation is made possible by free speech
        
        slipper slope to solve
- - - - e.g. disability community, Asian community
        
        the definition of community, where members were traditionally given or born into roles with obligations to others, has been transformed into an individualistic practice
        
        individualism: the practice of thrusting increasing amounts of responsibility onto individuals who become morally responsible for navigating the social realm using rational choice and cost benefit calculations
        
        which is the
        
        offloading more responsibilities onto citizens to empower them
        
        but inevitable that
        
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        Mental health has become individualised that helping someone out feels like emotional labour
- - - - e.g.
        
        George Orwell Big Brother
        
        which reveals to us that
        
        At the existential level we are more okay with giving our data up to the corporations instead of to the state, despite it being a type of surveillance we are fearful of from the state
        
        reveals that
        
        A fundamental distinction we choose to make or something we choose to make automatically without thinking – government power differs from private power. We may be tolerant, blisfully unaware or happy with the aggregation of private power