- While technology and medicine have improved our lives and longevity, they have also negatively impacted the environment and increased issues like obesity. Our increased lifespans mean more demand for limited resources.
- While connected through technology and social media, people are becoming more disconnected from reality and each other. Pop culture promotes narcissism over modesty.
- Societies strive for utopia but often achieve the opposite - increasing inequality and threats to peace through military or economic domination over others. True utopia requires harmony between humanity and the environment as well as between people.
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Winning means quickly adapting to change in today’s market. Coaching through Change will support you in more effectively coaching your sales team through change to accelerate performance.
Take charge of the political narrative by knowing your values and framing the debate. Presentation discusses George Lakoff's framing principles discussed in the book"Don't Think of an Elephant!"
CHAPTER 9 Social Philosophy Am I My Brothers or My Sisters Keep.docxchristinemaritza
CHAPTER 9 Social Philosophy: Am I My Brother's or My Sister's Keeper?
BEFORE YOU READ . . .
Ask yourself how you would decide what constitutes justice.
Those who tell stories hold the power in society. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people, most of the time.
George Gerbner
Political philosophy focuses on the relationship between the individual and the state and considers where the rights of one end and the rights of the other begin. In social philosophy we look at a related set of questions that arise out of the tension (or lack of it) between the individual and the community. Living in cultures as devoted to individualism as those in the West, it may be difficult for us to understand that in Japan, for example, it is the group, not the individual, that matters. To be singled out for individual accomplishment is cause for embarrassment rather than pride.
The Issue Defined
Perhaps you have heard some of the following views expressed: If the individual is the significant unit in society, then my attention should be devoted to myself—to getting enough education to ensure a good job and the financial and social rewards that go with it. If things go wrong, I must look to myself for explanations and solutions. Maybe I am not smart enough, or did not work hard enough, or I am the wrong race/gender/age. If other people are homeless, hungry, or out of work, they obviously have some problem, but the responsibility for finding solutions is theirs. Each of us needs to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. Look at the individuals who have “made it” against all odds; they are our inspiration; they show us it can be done. Anyone who does not make it is just not trying hard enough.
A society that focuses instead on the community may look at these same issues rather differently. We heard a lot in the 1980s about the Japanese auto industry, with its high quality standards, pride in product, and company songs that everyone sings each morning with a kind of patriotic fervor. In Japanese culture, it is the group that matters, and the success of the team that makes the well-built car is shared. Not to work hard is to let down the team as well as yourself; your efforts have little meaning apart from those of the group to which you belong. You cannot build a car by yourself, but you can do your job as well as you possibly can, and you can cooperate with the other members of your team rather than compete with them.
A similarly communal lifestyle was prevalent not so long ago in eighteenth-century Europe and England. People lived in individual homes, but there was common land on which all the cattle in the village grazed. Family members who worked for wages pooled their earnings in a common fund known as the “family wage economy,” and it would have been unthinkable to say, “These earnings are mine, and I will do with them what I like.” It was the family and the village that mattered; their survival was the goal, and each individua ...
As Steve Jobs once said ” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
2. Power/Pollution
• To be sincere, We have energy, efficient
machines and medicine. our lives are
Utopian, we live longer and our burden of
living is lessened.
• The irony is that our planet, the only one
we can live on is dying, and our burden is
only beginning.
3. Safety/Privacy
• CCTV(closed circuit television) is what we
use to protect us, the eye in the sky that looks
out for us.
• Ironically, this has been abused and this form of
technology can be used for insidious purposes,
pretty much the cornerstone of everything BigBrother.
and nobody wants that, right?
4. Enlightenment/Internet
• The Internet is a resivour of information,
we can draw from it at will to spread knowledge and
understanding.
• In order for this to be possible, it has to give every tom,
dick, and harry the power to say anything,
anytime and self edit it, with no form of reviewing
process.
• throws everything we read into
This
doubt because of the sources the information comes
from. meaning that instead of a tool of enlightenment,
Are we grasping the weapon of ignorance?
5. Medicine/Immunity
• we are living longer, that’s a fact, and it is
because of medicinal science.
• because of our longevity now, we can work
longer, and pay more taxes.
• Unfortunately people
because of this the number of
needing organ transplants has doubled, while
the number of healthy organs had
declined, rapidly.
• The longer we live, The less our children have to
live for. Quality of life will slowly decline with
population growth.
6. Wealth/Capitalism
• the system of socioeconomic trading and wealth that is
most prevalent in the west is capitalism.
• Theoretically this allows everyone to make money by buying
wealth cycle around the economy
stuff and letting the
so those who own companies make money, means higher pay for workers
who in turn spend their earnings; a company makes money then pays
workers ect.
• unfortunately in order to keep prices competitive,
companies off-shore their production. this make
the consumer-earners only consumers in certain, high wealth
commodities, such as automotive and childrens toys.
• companies owners become corperate giants because
of the low-cost high-retail value.
7. Abundance/Pestilence
• No ,one in the 1st world should need for
food we have supermarkets and restaurants where you can
buy, at “reasonable prices”, nearly anything
and enjoy the food of other nations in this big ol’
melting pot of corporate venture.
• Fast food has caused a rise in obesity, diabetes
and the inability to know how to cook to
feed ones self and a distinct ignorance of
food; where does it come from? we just head
down to the shop.
8. Society/Conformity
• What are you going to wear today? when are you going to
check my Facebook status? i got the highest kill in
black ops.
• No body should want for friends cause got txtn n
fb so we dn’t evn hf to spll sht rigt an it
so esy to mak frnds des daes yo dn’t evn hf to evn b
socil.
• We’re all connected but were disconnected, from reality or
from each other it doesn’t matter so long as there’s a screen
in front of you.
9. Modesty/Hubris
• For everything we have that may be
Utopian, what we don’t have is modesty.
• we are disgustingly Narcissistic, bordering
on hubris all the time, their is a growing number
among us that just can’t see the wood from their
egos, and it’s infiltrated our minds through
popular culture as the consequence of all
our utopian efforts. “i’m just soooo much better
than everybody else because...........”
10. Equality/Segregation
• This ties back to the first slide
• More than just inter racial. it’s interspecies
segregation as well. we judge and hold ourselves
above all other creatures on this world, we
empathise yes, but in the grander scheme of things it’s
kinda shallow empathy
• Given the choice, how many would put an
animals life before their own? and if
someone did, how many people would actually truly
understand why?
11. Threat/Hope
• Truly utopian societies have no need for war. they have no
crime or unrest, they are truly at peace.
• The Pax Romana or roman peace was the great peace that
Rome gave to the world, it was ironically enforced by Roman
military power. Peace or death.
• Todays equivalent could be called the Pax Americana,
American Peace, which is held through the funding and
training of middle eastern armies and through of-shore
investment and manufacturing. But the balance of power is
shifting out of the west and soon the centers of the world
will be Beijing, New Delhi, maybe even bagdad? and we ask
ourselves; will we face the same subversive intervention so
that they can maintain their peace at the price of ours?