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Technology, Human nature/nurture, equality - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Brands programming us that to succeed in our capitalistic society you need that handbag
      - it instils in us the desire or the idea that if we pursue material ends and success in being a bad bitch or whatever instagram tells you to be you will find fulfill me
- - - - Echo Chamber
        
        Perhaps we’ve become trapped in echo chambers of our own making – wrapping ourselves in an intellectually impenetrable layer of like minded friends, web pages and social media feeds.
        
        The ‘echo chamber’ highlights and purports the same views, while relevant voices are actively discredited.
        
        These thought silos or echo chambers deepens pre-existing fault lines in an already tumultuous and confrontational political atmosphere in countries such as the US today. It used to be that we all had ‘the news’ – a common epistemological anchor of sorts to organise debate around. Now that we all have our own news, it makes debate increasingly, and almost irreversibly, incommensurable. As if we were speaking different languages
      - being on social media imposes a certain logic on the way that we think and expectations of ourselves.
      - the celebritification of journalist and journalism
        
        Journalism
        
        social media is a place where celebrities think they are journalist and journalist think they are celebrities → vocation of journalist is not something that should be directed at any kind of celebrity especially reporting
      - toxic people
        
        Cancel culture
        
        harpers magazine where renowned authors and academics across the ideological spectrum complaint with a complaint about a “intolerance for opposing views”, vogue for public shaming and ostracism and a tendency to dissolve complex policy issue in a blinding moral certainty.
    - - Globalisation
        
        transition of political and economic power from governments to corporations
        
        Governments
        
        Communism (utilitarianism)- Well-intentioned political philosophy based on equality
        
        equality-based ideologies such as communism or utilitarianism have historically failed to realised their intended outcomes as they are applied to real world scenario
        
        Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao Zedong - whose behaviour was illustrative of a utilitarian calculus wherein violence was justified in the name of achieving a socialist utopia
        
        Marxist philosophy was intended as a genuine attempt at social utopia, however, as it is applied to the real world it consistently fails to achieve its inteded outcomes.
        
        To get a sense of this you need only glance over a list of communist and socialist regimes (the soviet union, or pre soviet Russia in which people were eating grass for sustenance, Cambodia) in contrast to neo-liberal econoies such as the US and Australia.
        
        Classic liberalism
        
        William Hobbs put it, "the drunkard in the gutter is exacty where he ought to be"
        
        Modern liberalism
        
        Meritocracy
        
        Neo liberalism/‘Free market’ ‘laissez faire’ Capitalism
        
        Meritocracies provide an impetus for competition and enterprises and these key facets of modern western economies is one of the reasons they have been so successful in performing better with respect to important living indexes such as healthcare and education
        
        Economically
        
        Capitalism
        
        Politically
        
        Democracy
        
        Predicated on
        
        Legitimacy
        
        Westernisation (transmission and reception of European ideas, technology, lifestyles, institutions throughout the globe)
        
        Colonialism: the contradiction between liberal ideals and colonial practice became particularly acute, as the dominion of Europe over the rest of the world reached its zenith.
        
        Language
        
        the capacity of language to colonize; language is not just a means of communication but also a carrier of culture. Speaking the colonizer’s language reproduces the colonizer’s values, he charges – a point not lost on communities like the the Maori of New Zealand, who have made language rights a hallmark of their sovereignty movements.
        
        Racism
        
        systemic oppression
        
        Violence
        
        the civilized white men at
        the center and in charge
        
        a monoculture of conformity
    - - Cambridge Analytica influencing the election for Donald Trump and Brexit having huge geo-political repercussions
    - - Megpolies (vast corporate entities - google, apple, meta etc) operate in democratic countries but are unelected and are therefore unimpeachable : they are not just too big to fail, but too big to control and therefore too big to resist.
- - - - Colonialism
        
        Politics
    - - we don’t even recognise the extent to which we have this embedded axiom of conquoring limits then respecting them. → relationship to death and aging endless quest for immortality (more and more people are living past 100 because of advancements in medicine)
        
        there seems to be an unquestioned desire for us to extent life indefinitely if we can without thinking what that means and whether that is desirable → if we can do it we should do it and of course we can attitude