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Technology 2, Classic Liberalism, Anger - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mega-monopolies (Vast corporate entities - good, 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.
        
        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, farthing procrastination, generating addiction, and manipulation
      - Social Media
        
        Bad feelings machine
        
        To lick on the dopamine lollipop
        
        the "echo chamber" highlights and purports the same view, while relevant voices are actively discredited
        
        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.
        
        "surround ourselves with the tribe of the already convinced"
        
        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
        
        polarisation
        
        Democracy
        
        The West must reconsider its relationship to democracy, and understand that the notion of democratic participation as a right is a goal that we have not yet achieved.
        
        the failures of democracy to provide equal opportunity for all citizens than to examine the consequences of systemic racism on the racial disparities observed in Western democratic states.
        
        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.
        
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        Barriers of wealth and education
        
        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.
        
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        Education/Knowledge/Wisdom
    - - Westernisation (transmission and reception of European ideas, technology, lifestyles, and institutions throughout the globe - a mono culture of conformity
        
        American town in japan
        
        Thai restaurants in western culture, making it more
        
        Food
        
        Culture
- - - - 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.”