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Technology 1, Neoliberalism, Classic Liberalism, science - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Hardship
        
        This contingent view of hardship is not only the most pervasive in modern life but is the most noxious as it has enabled convenience to become variously the organising principle of late modern life
      - Successful technology insinuates itself into life so that we forget about what might it be doing to our lives in the process of us using it. It presents itself as being so convenient that it puts us into a state of unthinkingness where the convenience becomes self-justifying
- - - - Colonialism
        
        political discourse continually reveals the fact that the association of true human nature (without bounds of social norms or governance) with a regressive primitivism is pervasive and continuous.
        
        Politics
        
        Art
        
        equality
        
        Communism
        
        "The communist utopia (coined by Sir Thomas More from the greek outopos 'the good place' and eutopos 'no place' or 'the place that cannot be') was the driving force of Mao Zedong and the Bolsheviks Chinese/Russian revolutions. It was aptly named, as communsim, for Marx and Engels, was a fully working model of what might have been, but never was. Communism, instead, has become invariably hijacked by the socialist central authority who were tasked with the transition to communism but, somewhere, lost their way."
        
        Donald Trump assertions of mexican immigrants 'should be locked in cages' - Although important to note that such claims were made as fervent political metaphors, rather than absolute truth, they blatantly demonstrate the continual presence and apparent appeal of colonial thinking in modern times.
        
        when Europe came into contact with the indigenous peoples of the ‘New World’, the simplicity of the arrangement of these cultures was looked upon disdainfully as evidence of their ‘primitive’ and ‘animal’ nature.
        
        Racism, prejuice = pre-judges people
        
        Considering the impact of this in our own context, we see that European thinking that Indigenous Australians embodied a primitive and savage human nature left Aboriginal people susceptible to aggressive colonial acts of genocide, and later, assimilation.
        
        This destruction of culture, destabilisation of communities, and displacement of livelihoods escaped criticism throughout most of Australia’s history because colonists justified it as a moral act of charity designed to ‘enlighten’ and ‘socialise’ Indigenous peoples into European ways.
        
        Equality
        
        Violence
      - In an endeavour to assert the dominance of its rigid social organisation, it was convenient for imperial European thought to attribute this true human nature with primitivism.
    - - Aging
      - nature and natural boundaries to be conquered as frontiers stems from enlightenment thinking
      - we have become a species of interveners where we are bending the will of nature to our desires
    - - We tend to believe that we shape our buildings; we rarely stop to think seriously about how they shape us.
        
        Architecture
    - - Boredom
        
        Individually
        
        Meditation
        
        allows us to be presence with one self and reflecton the finitude, insignificance of ourselves and can be loaded with moral significance
        
        shower thoughts
        
        With a friend
        
        Friendship
        
        The things of greatest values (in friendships, relationships and family) are moments we truly love were pure moments of serendipity they were unplanned they were purposeless in the sense that they didn’t an agenda
        
        contemplation
- - - - Westernisation (transmission and reception of European ideas, technology, lifestyles, and institutions throughout the globe - a mono culture of conformity
        
        Culture
        
        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.
        
        American town in japan
        
        Thai resturants in western culture, making it more palatable by westerners
        
        Food
  - - - For the "big 5" companies (Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook), the main data-collection part of their business appears to be based on deception exploiting human weakness, furthering procastination, generating addiction, and manipulation
    - - Echo chambers
        
        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
        
        "surround ourselves with the tribe of the already convinced"
        
        Social media utilises emotions of anger in order to retain users
        
        Anger can point you to the truth but it can also distort your sense
        
        anger can only take you so far and then you would need cool rationality or persuasive reasoning
        
        Anger is sending you some kind of moral concern but then what you do with this concern must always be subject to other higher virtues like divine guidance in Islam
        
        Anger
      - Bad feelings machine
        
        To lick on the dopamine lollipop
      - Exacerbates
        
        postmodernism is a philosophic movement characterised by broad scepticism, subjectivism, or relativism' a genral suspicion of reason; a denial of any certainty of scientific or objective efforts to explain reality; and a rejection of authority and expert knowledge as being elitist or repressive
- - - - Epistemology
    - - Technology has integrated so closely into our lives it has become inescapable - we use our phones on the toilet, we know more than we need to about other people and it knows more about ourselves than we eerily do.
- - - - 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
        
        Brands programming us that to succeed in our capitalistic society you need that handbag
        
        Fashion Clothes
    - - Western society now share a common creed of consumption; our material possessions, which are mass-produced and mass-marketed, nevertheless become an expression of our “individuality.”
- - - - Much of our parliament have been educated in the upper echelons of Australia’s private education institutions- Knox College, Hale School, and Scotch College, just to name a few. These institutions demand upwards of $30,000 in annual tuition fees for a high school education, enabling only access only for the wealthy.
        
        It is no secret that even in democratic nations, wealth and political power are intrinsically tied- the rise and rise of Donald Trump in the United States only serves to evidence this fact.
    - - Most Australians can acknowledge that the Indigenous citizenship rights, and the right to vote came far too late, in 1967 and 1962 respectively. What most will fail or refuse to acknowledge, however, is the continual barriers facing Indigenous Australians from participating in our political life.
        
        historical racial barriers implemented by European nations in colonial states preventing Indigenous and communities of colour from voting or having representatives in power. Only gaining the ability to vote in the 60s
        
        Indigenous Australians
        
        Increased rates of incarcerations
- - - - Governments have displayed an increasingly lack of trustworthiness over the last century, and this has facilitated a growth in political unrest and neo-liberalist philosophy which questions the legitimacy of the power of these goverments
    - - Law enforcement
        
        Such injustices dampen perceptions of policing, causing many, especially those in racial minority communities, to question the utilitarian value, role, and legitimacy of American police departments
      - Perceived procedural fairness