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Sunday, August 14, 2011

HORSE EATING


Communications 367
June 21, 2011
Paper 1: Topic Ideas
1. (Re)Introduce horse meat into US society
a. Slaughterhouses to be established
b. Public stigma adjustment: more people have/had intimate relationships with cats and dogs than horses; the public’s negative affect towards Asian practices of eating cats and dogs has appeared to have decreased (to me)
c. Many wild horses out west being round up at the expense of public
d. Delicacy or shelter food? (economic possibilities)
e. Historical/geographical examples of human consumption
2. Encourage children to distinguish and nurture 3 identities: a self, an other, and a public self
a. I’d like to develop this mentality from a young age, as to remove (existential/philosophical) complications
b. “Fronting” to be a positive, genuine, compliant term
c. The “other” to be an external influence recognized and consulted as memories distinguishable from the individual’s own self, meant to connote/contradict
d. Self-esteem promotion is a major objective of this.
e. Emotional component/personal passion: My little sister (age 15) committed suicide May 11, 2011 after an intense struggle to “find herself”. She was deliberately persuaded to self-mutilate, speak ill of others, and do other self-destructive things BY HER PEERS. She was intelligent but unaware of the distinction between keeping her true beliefs alive despite outward projections of her being.
3. Dumpster diving: attempt to decrease public’s negative affect
a. Food waste issue/ disease awareness
b. Environmentalists/recyclers/homeless benefits and participation
c. Restaurant waste cleanliness/dumpster maintenance and segregation
d. Freegan thought

Begn to Shapitt

There are patterns of questioning that allow for final determinant identities to be visualized as
triangles, squares, circles, alphabet letters, colors, and other states of matter that defy time-space.

For example, kids without attitudes couldn't possible care about the state of the union
but may be forced to express an opinion about it. One part of the group of kids say
"Its going good" An other group says "Its going bad". Normally, kids who arent sure will simply
join one of the other groups and keep quiet most of the time. However, those kids who are
sincerely disinterested should assume a questioner role and come up with questions for each
of the other groups. However, just as the group needs to choose a spokesperson, they will
also choose a question-person. This is when they need the kids who actually arent sure
but joined one of groups anyway to stand up. Increasing the option available to fight to an
opposing argument but have it be known among others that they initially complied to pressure
is a stoic admittance. As the child leaves the first group and joins the uncertain questioners,
they will help guide the question-forming so to reveal the greatest amount of
information from the spokesperson. They admit their loyaties to the first group so they include
questions that the first group was really confident about, so the speakers can show their stuff

Berzonsky and Blasi

How are the learning defenses to be mitigated? How is the learning that can lead to
identiy change be promoted? Our understanding of the dyanamics to idchange derives
from the work of Berzonsky and Blasi, for whom self-concept developmenty involves the
management of three interdependent components: process, the means by which identity
is encoded; structure: the way identity is organized; content: the information from which
reality is constructed.
If the self-concept is an answer to the question, " who and what am i?" then in general, the
answer consists of achieving a new unity among elements of one's past and expectations
about the future and this creates a deep and fundamental sense of purposeful continuity.
This is a process of intergration and questiontion. The answer to these questions leads to
integration, a sense of basic loyalty and fidelity as well as deep, preconscious feelings of
rootedness and well-being, self-esteem, and purposefulness.
Learning that promotes identity change thus involves a resynthesis or reintegration of the
processual, structural, and content aspects of self in a way that defends against anxiety and
satisfies the need for self-esteem.
However, althogh identity provides meaning, premature closure of identity exploration processes,
or too tight a closure around an over-defined identity, in inimical to the multiple and alternate
meanings that make organization development possible.
Senior managements role in the learning organization is to surface and contest existing mental
models and to build shared visions of the future.
Organizational identity may assumes that the senior managers have everyone's
best interest at heart. However, if someone has assumed and then abandoned previously
self-identifing factors in the past, when the goals of the new organization promote conflicting
views, the person will re-evaluate relationship strength with the current group, whether or not
there exists a possibility of rejoining the old group. This is how the fluidity of self-ascribed
identities weaken as the number of abandoned identities hinder the acceptance of new
organization by means of skepticism.

The Prinsymple


Politcal Theory
Realists and the argument for Security Machiavelli
Machiavelli warns his prince that he must pursue those policies that can "save the state"
He says, "if you look at all matters carefully, you will see something resemling virture
which, if you follow it, may be your ruin, while something else resembling vice will lead
if you follow it, to you security and well-being. That is the politic of virtu or Realpolitik
and it involves a determined, pragmatic use of power unencombered by moral scruples.
He consciously lowers the standards of social action or order to satify, as far as possiblem
a realistic preeminent goal, our basic need for security.

Reformers and the Argument for Diversity - Aristotle

Online Substance Abuse

The kids are on compuaters all day long but they aren't actually forced to type much.
When the threat of exposing yourself is gone, you can freely express yourself online.
You can talk without speaking. As computers take over the need for memory-retention, mixed with
minimalization of spoken word while using the internet even for socializing, the cognitive maps
are being formed in kids minds. Emphasis on physically engaging activity - somewhere between
reading aloud, talking with friends, telling a story, and answering questions at school.
in kids public schooling will increase the liklihood that they will engage in more rigorous
We've already established that kids are greatat data-input, pressing buttons,
and finding friends online, but they are also confident in another
thing: they are a part of an adult world there, and they're experiencing a sense of freedom
for the first time. If this is where a child is most honest and humble, then their ability to
effectively express new ideas will be pertinent information for future application.
It appears the amount of so-called corruption from an advertising overload has not
stopped the mindless chitchat of these children; it is greatly hindering the diologic
behaviors in actual interaction between them. When their minds are so fragile, and
they know how to cut the bullshit already, its time we give them what they want.
Not drugs, not sex: Philosophy lessons.
The social media has already marketed the idea of "out of body experiences" and
"mind expansion", but the school systems don't want a drug problem. However, now that
direct to consumer pharmaceutical marketing is flourishing, kids with behavior problems are
being brought to the surface, and many of them are being prescribed anti-depressants,
anti-anxiety, and attention-deficent disorder drugs. These kids have access to other drugs
that change their state of mind by various substances already. These can create unintentional
physiologal responses that are more than just twitching, sweating, or smiling.
When pop culture gets dark and the drug companies are paying the bill
deviant kids can be extremely disturbed about certain material because they are overwhelmed
with confusion or they may become curious about the possibilites and become anxious.
As the science of brain-chemistry become more salient among scientists and behaviorists,
the importance of full and optimal brain development should be a fundamental priority
for the future leaders of the world. Projects that combine math, predicate logic, and interactive
questioning allows for greater arguments and imagination-use.

Personal Alchemyzinfool

¬Amanda Hamlin NOTE: I still need to put my citations in …I just wrote this freethougt
I used to be one of those outcast kids; consistently defying authority, bending the rules, complaining about the miserable conditions of high-school social dynamics, and, enviously, laughing at the blissful states of conformists of any type or form. Sure enough, I was a confused and angry kid in a downward spiral before high school even began. However, I never could have anticipated how helpful my persistent cynicism and perpetual bouncing from anti-this to anti-that, and ‘I don’t even care about that’…“I’m an electron!”-mentality would prove to be.
In acknowledging the state my pathology, naturally, I refused to assume just any label indicating a self-destructive or depressive state – that’d be too cliché. I wanted to be the most outwardly-happy negative-thinker there ever was. Once the whole anti-Islam trend ruined the enjoyment I got from challenging any and all religious convictions, I invented my own belief system in attempt to establish some values. This one was designed to adjust according to situation. Careful social integration, a feel-good reward system, and deliberative make-believe principles were put to work. Self-deluding? Nah – but self-deception, pretty much.
It turns out my little system is not to original. People do, indeed, choose what they believe in, and what they pay attention to/choose to ignore, and also, how they go about interpreting certain situations, almost instinctively. I needed a new approach – I needed to manipulate my own system. Having a high ‘need for cognition’, the battle which began between my own philosophical awakenings and the active challenging against imposed realities has been less of a headache, as it may sound to be, and more like a game, a hobby, a useful back and forth practice, indeed! Now, I’d like to get you on board and share with you what I believe may be possible when you cut the BS labels about “being yourself” and realize that “creating your Self” is far more rewarding and useful than trying to “express” our already obscure emotions; and now, we may actually begin to feel them.
Using strategic social compliance, conscientious behavior and speech, and genuine self-esteem creation and acquirement, the commonly known art of “putting up a front” has never been so profitable. In fact, I personally distinguish the strategic and good-willed act as “Phronting” and the other as just fronting. In addition; I have such a difficult time portraying myself online that I have begun to call it Phasebook. For anyone who denies being affected by the institutionalizing nature of social media sites, then you are either very lucky or an imposter.
I’d like to share with you a simplified process I use to phront and self-create; then, explain how/why the early-childhood Educational Establishment should upgrade their curriculums accordingly, and then conclude with some examples demonstrating the sound and relevant implications of active engagement in a variety of concepts.

In essence, the goal is to fulfill a prophecy which you set for yourself - it must always be a Positive and genuine quest for self-esteem, knowledge, and/or supreme truth, and be driven by your own desire. This is known as creating opportunity structures for self-esteem, sort of like choosing to engage in activities which you are, in fact good at; the likelihood of success is high. Especially for a socially integrated identity construct, remember that the desirable, anticipated result is not a given. Thus, you must admit that you cannot actually control anyone else's behaviour, but if it makes you feel better, it must also be realized that humans are, in fact, irrational beings. On one extreme, it is indeed a form of using humans for the personal pursuit of pleasure, but it is non-exploitative. On the other extreme, you must realize that you are using your own body as an instrument in the process - if online, it is a non-issue, or, if in person, it is in the most objective sense possible. Ergo, the prediction is made: a simple but common example may be "If I give this person a complement of some sort, it'll make them feel good". This statement must never be spoken. You do your thing; you get a smile and a thank-you in return, and bingo: the fruits of your labor flourish. You give yourself credit for having predicted the response, you done good by spreading good feelings. The physical reward of increasing self-esteem either in your self or the other person is unleashed as the experience is affirmed and validated by others. This means, you must tell people about what happened, how it felt, and how great it'll feel when the favor is returned. Whether or not the favor is ever returned, the validation by your buddies and yourself is manifested in quite real ways. In _________, self-esteem is conceptualized as a reservoir of energy, which can be depleted and restored. So, the more you believe in active kindness as a positive practice and the more joy is realized in making successful predictions, the more control you will obtain over this new, strategic, and fluid identity's existence. This type of self-deception may result in an "inexplicable personal alchemy" by means of self-induced cognitive dissonance. What if that person was a criminal? What if they didn't actually appreciate the complement? Was that just a waste of time? This is where it gets good, and where the magic happens. This is where you assert to yourself that you did, indeed, do a good deed of your free will. However, you must acknowledge the possibility of but ultimately deny the existence of this fact: You may have just screwed yourself. The more you refuse to back down of your “high horse”, the more you try to validate your new identity, the uncertainty yields new perspectives, new feelings, and ultimately, the brain activity becomes physical enough, and fundamental beliefs are incepted. For someone like me, who has consistently rejected most any belief system which has been introduced by others, I find it very satisfying to actively and imaginatively construct and evaluate simple but controlled experiences in which my beliefs are established by comparative positives, as opposed to externally imposed by fearful unknowns.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Mershonary

We are in an era where education has been transformed to aiedeucation. Currently, the mental shortcuts we have learned to use have set our sense of reality and values out of wack. It’s a product of capitalism; its nothing more than what we’ve agreed to, and possibly everything we need… but how has this really affected us? Will the kids of tomorrow be programmed similarly? Are we entering a state of progress, a never-ending process, or just, becoming better professionals?
Well, the youth of America is having an identity crisis – we’ve probably all contemplated our own existence, but, Since the Educational Establishment has also surrendered to the capitalistic values of corporate America, kids are counting M&Ms, and watching sponsored programming while they read the Abercrombie & Fitch logo on their teacher’s chest all day. As abbreviations, acronyms, and other symbols stick to the front of our minds, content and contextual information skills come afterwards, forever restricting our abilities to form and express new thoughts. Further, behaviorisms and chemical properties take part, and kids may be diagnosed with disorders by exposing inconsistent or irrational thought patterns from which the pharmaceutical companies might have instilled in the first place.
The time we take to process and store new ideas is so low that they stay with us, well, about as long as it takes us to digest a bitty piece of bubblegum. (But wait, isn’t that, like ten years? Psyche!) But what about the real American values, like freedom and democracy? Why does the American Eagle have so many cute clothes? Why would we rather define ourselves in immeasurable concepts than compare ourselves to a bird?
The computers systems are improving their use and capabilities for information storage, but we may be sacrificing more skills than we thought needed for the upmost proficiency. As ad-agencies compete with embedded religious values and inherited family memories in our brains, there begins a great struggle between irrationally-derived associations, those which are hierarchical, and those which are on a scale. Mind you, however, the ones we do choose to remember are often because of irrational reasoning schemes: Method to madness, reason from doubt. Personal Choice (to me, PC). Rhymes. Times. Numbers. Graphs. Whatever that’s boring.



In using out-dated teaching methods, the very art of thinking and information processing has hindered free-thought and institutionalized knowledge.

The Capital
The Rain
The Autumn
The Sea

Sommmmsm Plate to Water n back again

"project: to my plate right now but I am drowning as it is.
Now is the time for all good men.
Currently I sit drowning may I please breathe
At the time when force is drowning, I... project
If drowning is meant for all, I will.

SnM Kid's Brainds for Sale

I wish I could blame capitalism; I wish I could blame the public school system; I wish I could blame insecurity; I wish I could blame pornography, the drugs, the girls, christian-conservative terrorists... but I cannot, and will not.

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