Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Globalization, Tyranny of the majority (john Stuart Mill), art (essence:…

- - - - Elon Musk Starlink Ukraine and Russia war
    - - Space
        
        The Orbital Age: Space commericalisation
        
        Fourth Industrialisation termed by World Economic Fourm Chairman Klaus Schwab : artificial intelligence, robotics
  - - - modern slavery (child labour, conflict diamonds and sweatshops)
        
        garment-manufacturing sector in Bangladesh, child labour
        
        As products and their journeys have taken centre-stage, we – the people who use and make them – are recast as mere stagehands, guided by economic forces that are ultimately beyond our control.
        
        consumers have other considerations e.g. cost
        
        Enlisting consumers as the moral compass for problems bound up with consumerism is problematic
        
        yet more consumption as the principal means of addressing problems that are ultimately rooted in consumption
        
        The only thing we’re trying to perfect is only an image
        
        Modern Slavery Act (2015) in UK: companies to scrutinise their supply chains for risks and abuses
        
        preventable human suffering
        
        geographically distant consumers diminish the perceived moral responsibility
        
        Analysis paralysis
        
        Who absolves the social and moral cost
    - - hierarchy of needs
        
        illusion of choice
        
        Australian Agriculture Prime Minister David Littleproud advocated the boycott of $1 plain-brand milk
        
        heuristics and nudging
        
        Monopoly: Nestle, Coca Cola, Kello
        
        consumer welfare: narrowly perceived as lower consumer price
      - Longevity noodle, mooncake Yuan Dynasty
  - - - The problem of Bigness (which Kant referred to as ‘the sublime’, and which Louis Brandeis remarkably prescient warned in 1912/13 was ‘the evil of bigness’): a democratic threat
        
        unelected
        
        (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.
    - - disinformation technology has become cheap and widespread.
        
        deep fakes
        
        systemtically
        
        destabilising the concept of truth itself
        
        vacuum of chaos, distrust
      - Digtal sweatshop
- - - - incompatible with
        
        free market capitalism
        
        perpetuates
        
        Consumerism
        
        westernisation
        
        place on a pedestal
        
        1 more item...
        
        In Moby Dick, the pluralism evident in the ship's motley crew morphed into a sameness that served the goal of a mad man. Diversity yields to conformity under leadership/ of a mission without meaning
        
        maxim of modern capitalism: greed/ consumption is good
        
        Greed
        
        2 more items...
        
        feeds off
        
        Demand
        
        2 more items...
        
        is a form of
        
        technological outcome of
        
        GAFA tetrarchy (Google,amazon, Facebook, Apple)
        
        social media
        
        addiction
        
        1 more item...
        
        commodifies intrusion into
        
        1 more item...
        
        Communication
        
        Money and Wealth
        
        natural selection vs money selection
        
        An in invitation to critical think
        
        based on
        
        voluntary exchange
        
        supply and demand, best deal
        
        surveillance capitalism
        
        1 more item...
        
        private ownership of capital assets
        
        socio-economic system
        
        Criticized by Karl Marx and Jean-Jacques Rosseau
        
        pockets of unequal market power
        
        struggle between bourgeois vs workers
        
        inegalitarian, disruptive results of unregulated markets, their instability, their alienating effects (e.g., separating individuals from the fruits of their labor, and their degrading effects on the poor
        
        necessitates expansion for resources
        
        war
        
        Milk War: In 2011, Coles dropped the price of their milk to $1 per litre, followed by Woolworths and Aldi
        
        Meritocracy: which influence is possessed on the basis of merit
        
        government government is to promote the well-being and virtue of the people vs noble blood
        
        if ruled by the meritorious
        
        Confucius consequentialist: People will be more virtuous, and better cared-for
        
        creates
        
        hierarchy based on merits
        
        can be overridden by
        
        1 more item...
        
        Justice
        
        an impersonal power
        
        even the most humane, welfarist form of capitalism is incompatible with liberalism's deepest aim: free people living together in a society of equals (John Rawls)
      - Democracy
        
        rule by the people
        
        Democracy of the people, by the people, for the people will only be broken if the people themselves fail to make it work
        
        based on equally but differs in approach
      - purposefully represents
- - - - scientific positivism
        
        rejects
        
        traditional metaphysical doctrines
        
        questions
        
        emancipate individuals from traditional ties
        
        aims to
        
        1 more item...
        
        reflect upon
        
        1 more item...
        
        was developed to cope with
        
        Existential crisis
        
        propagates
        
        1 more item...
        
        Knowledge economy
        
        First principle
    - - is different from
        
        Empowerment:
        
        reinforces the need for
      - the process of undertaking to think for oneself
    - - infer that secular actions have afterlife consequences.
- - - - publicity stunt. Half shredded readaptation of Girl with Balloon went under the hammer for 25 million
      - kissing the war goodbye - 1945 US navy sailor kissing a nurse (black and white)
      - Only exist in the minds that contemplate it
      - Banksy’s anonymity has been preserved because he is more valuable as a man of mystery than as a recognisable, photographable individual - Love is in the bin - shredded
    - - hyperattentiveness
        
        aesthetic judgment and moral judgment
    - - contention
- - - - Nothingness incites fear
- - - - the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia,
- - - - Freedom
        
        overtly
        
        a monoculture of conformity
        
        cultural assimilation
        
        homogenity
        
        opposite to
        
        1 more item...
        
        Westernisation (transmission and recption of Euroean ideas, lifestyles and insituition throughout the globe)
        
        Cultural osmosis: indirect infusion of social or cultural knowledge
        
        Luke, I am your father.
        
        via social media
        
        French revolution
        
        Freedom of speech
        
        Journalism
        
        Journalism does the average men's thinking for him
- - - - only the general will of the people has the right to legislate
  - - - conflict
      - resulting in a shift in that society's culture and mass actions
        
        collective trauma
        
        e.g. the Holocaust
- - - - translates to do unto others as what you would have them do unto you