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Globalisation, Modernity, Scientific racism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - technological outcome of
      - relies on
        
        Consumerism
        
        weakening of altruistic ideals and instead promotes
        
        Materalism
        
        eg
        
        Fast Fashion - expense of lives
        
        causes
        
        Environmental issues - These can include urban sprawl, pollution, resource depletion, and problems with waste disposal from excess consumer goods and packaging.
        
        induces
        
        Status anxiety
        
        may transform to resentment/hate/divide with
        
        Exclusivity
        
        However, the longing for exclusivity extends beyond physical spaces. It’s a deep emotional yearning, a desire to belong to a chosen few. Businesses, recognizing this sentiment, create experiences that amplify feelings of uniqueness. Yet these luxurious offerings are also reminders of societal divides. Whether driven by societal norms or personal desires, the desire to belong to an elite group, stand out, and feel unique significantly shapes human choices and experiences. Firms that channel this human instinct through specialized offerings can resonate profoundly with their audience.
      - creates the myth of
        
        Meritocracy
        
        fails practically due to
        
        Social inequality
        
        within
        
        Health
        
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        through
        
        Racism
        
        increased via heightened accesibility
        
        Contrary to the views of most irritated experts, the Internet is not the fundamental cause of challenges to their expertise. Instead, the Internet has enhanced the gap between laypeople and experts by offering a shortcut to knowledge. It allows people to mimic intellectual achievement by indulging in an illusion of expertise provided by an innumerable supply of facts.
        
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      - creates
        
        Money and wealth
        
        Aristole - emergence og commerce, coin. Money is a bearer of value. We assume something gets filled. But instead its just a buying power. We keep trying to fill but nothing gets filled.
        
        is wrongly associated with
        
        success
        
        Snoop - " i got my mind on money and my money on mind "
        
        Focusing solely on financial success is akin to chasing a mirage. While wealth promises happiness and fulfillment, it often leads to an unbalanced life where personal well-being is sacrificed for material gains.
        
        It can make us less satisfied with our lives. Studies have shown that people who focus too much on money are less satisfied with their lives than those who focus on other things, such as relationships, experiences, and personal growth. This is because money cannot buy happiness.
        
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      - surveillance capitalism
        
        enhances
        
        breaching privacy, sharing data
      - Weber's analysis extended to the Protestant work ethic, connecting it to the rise of capitalism by encouraging hard work for personal gain based on the Calvinist principle of predestination - i.e. wealth and prosperity is a product of hardwork and a God given right.
    - - Economic liberalisation
      - starts from
        
        Political authority and law
        
        John Locke - social contract theory
        
        Thomas Hobbes - Life in the state of nature is nasty, short
        
        is needed for
        
        Freedom
        
        POMO
        
        critiques
        
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        celebrates the multiplicity of perspectives and the plurality of truths, its critics argue that without a commitment to objective truth, there can be no meaningful dialogue or progress in human knowledge.
        
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        has evolved
        
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        rationalism - the process by which modern society has increasingly become concerned with efficiency, predictability, calculability, and dehumanization
        
        leading to the concept of the "iron cage," where individuals are trapped by institutions and bureaucracy, resulting in disenchantment with the world.
      - focusses on the
        
        Individual
        
        upheld in
        
        West
        
        shows
        
        Stigma towards non-growth
        
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        as opposed to, traditional
        
        Collectivism
        
        upheld in
        
        East
        
        influenced by
        
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        values
        
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- - - - Colonialism
    - - Monoculture of conformity
        
        via
    - - Euro-centric ideologies
        
        appear superior, thus causing
        
        Christianity
- - - - GAFA tetrarchy
        
        Social Media
        
        Media reductionism
        
        justifies
        
        eg
        
        Bill Maher
        
        creates
        
        Echo chambers
        
        reinforce
        
        Misinformation
        
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        The early days of the internet promised a mind-expanding utopia, where we could freely exchange new ideas and contemplate other points of view.
        
        Creates misinformation and distort a person’s perspective so they have difficulty considering opposing viewpoints and discussing complicated topics. They’re fueled in part by confirmation bias.
        
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        prevent achieving this
        
        enables uncentralised info, but spreads
        
        first instance was printing press, prior to this information centralised through people in power.
        
        accountability excaberated to
        
        CANCEL CULTURE
        
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        quantifies, through likes and comments.
        
        Wasting our time posing for images and creating superficial experiences to gain validation from random users online.
        
        is the greater contributor to
        
        monetises of
        
        attention capitalism
        
        Silicon valley realised the future was to profit our attention and time. - becomes a commodity.
        
        Notifications interrupt our real world and drag us back into our devices. We are continuously disconnected from society.
        
        capacity for boredom is lost.
        
        steals our
        
        Time
        
        Anxieties of the future
        
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        Anxieties of the past
        
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        has disrupted the ways of
    - - Control
        
        our decisions
        
        eg
        
        Zuck's mood experiment
    - - Technology
        
        created
        
        AI
        
        Hyper-reality
        
        altered
        
        Education/learning
- - - - Capitalism relies on growth; there must be an annual increased in GDP by 3%. --> more demand, more workers etc. --> exhaust landmass, food and fossil fuels.
        
        Chevron or Exxon Mobil or BP
- - - - story of a people’s history and culture, and justifies the existence of a nation-state. Nationalism is often associated with a shared language, religion, or ethnicity, and it seeks to create a sense of solidarity and unity among members of a particular nation.
    - - Objective morals
        
        This narrative provides a framework for understanding the nature of the universe, the meaning of human life, and the purpose of morality.
        
        GOd exists - objective morals.