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Democracy, French Revolution - Coggle Diagram
Democracy
a Western political expression of
and its eastern counterpart
Communism
aimed to resolve the inequalities of
Political manifestation of
Liberalism
Economic manifestation is
Capitalism
Money and Wealth
Economics: the science of choices in a world where resources are scarce and humans are rational maximisers of their own self interests
Adam Smith: When self interested individuals pursue selfish ends, they create efficiencies in the free market which maximise utility for everyone
Utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham)
America's
Pluralistic monoculture of conformity
The pluralism evident in the ship’s motley crew of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick were molded into one organism directed to fulfill the mad goal of a mad man. Diversity yields to conformity in the service of a mission without meaning.
Conformity
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Surveillance capitalism
Social Media
A bad feelings machine
Licking on the dopamine lollipop
Social media companies and drug addicts are the only businesses that refer to their customers as users
the GAFA tetrarchy (google, amazon, Facebook, apple)
Shoshana Zuboff: surveillance capitalists sell certainty to business customers who would like to know with certainty what we do
Moral philosopher Alisdair Macintyre in his 1968 book Christianity and Marxism observed that capitalist society engages a full pedagogical machinery to manufacture the sort of political subjects and moral bodies that are capable of succeeding within capitalism. We do not, it seems to me, naturally thrive within capitalism, we need to be remade to come to value the practices and dispositions that have, for nearly all of human history, were great vices (namely lack of self control).
Classic Liberalism
Modern / Neoliberaism
Voting
Suffragettes
Feminism: an intellectual commitment and a philosophical movement
politics of
Gender
further politicised as
Identity Politics
aims to rectify
Injustice
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aims to represent
Marginalised Groups
Ethics
addresses social
aims to articulate what a just society would look like
Justice
French Revolution
Conceived
Aimed to resolve the inequities of
Fuedalism