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2019-12-16 Level 7: Utopias

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  1. Greg Malivuk
  2. [email protected]
  3. http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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  5. If you could change one or more laws in the US or your country to make things better, what would you change?
  6. - no guns
  7. - travel without a visa?
  8. - no marijuana?
  9. - more marijuana?
  10. - make divorce process simpler
  11. - make the marriage process harder/longer
  12. - no waiting period for remarriage
  13. - gay marriage
  14. - get rid of “morality” laws
  15. - don’t punish victimless “crimes”
  16. - license to have kids
  17. Make a list and share with the class.
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  19. fundamental attribution error = attributing your own decisions to your special situation and circumstances, while attributing other people’s decisions to their overall character and personality
  20. (“I did it for many specific reasons that make it justified. You did it because you’re lazy.”)
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  22. BREAK
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  24. If something should require a license or permit, who gets to decide who receives it?
  25. How can we make sure that those decisionmakers are doing it fairly?
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  27. Some people shouldn’t have kids. Some people shouldn’t have guns. Some people shouldn’t be given a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  28. Who decides who is allowed to have kids or guns? Who enforces it? How do they enforce it? (What are the consequences for doing the thing without approval?) Who checks for fairness? Who enforces rules about fairness? Who checks them?
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  30. utopia (modern sense) = a place where everything is perfect or at least as good as possible
  31. dystopia = a place where (pretty much) everything is bad
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  33. What are some fictional examples?
  34. dystopias
  35. Hunger Games (post-apocalyptic dystopia)
  36. 1984
  37. Fahrenheit 451
  38. Animal Farm
  39. Black Mirror
  40. Brave New World (false utopia)
  41. utopias
  42. Dinotopia
  43. (original) Star Trek (There are wars and fights, but the main society is meant to be utopian)
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  45. There are several types of conflict in stories, and all of them can still exist in a true utopia except man vs. society.
  46. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(narrative)
  47. (Rebellion/revolution stories are generally man against society. Post-apocalyptic dystopias might be man against nature or man against society.)
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  49. The original meaning of “utopia” was not “eu” (good) + “topia” (place), it was “ou” (not) + “topia”.
  50. In other words, it simply meant a place that doesn’t exist. The short book by Thomas More was published in 1516.
  51. “Concerning the best state of a commonwealth and the new island Utopia”
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  53. p. 89 - Read the excerpts from this book. What do you think about the society described?
  54. 1 crime and punishment (Might as well complete the crime if attempting it is just as bad.)
  55. 2 religion
  56. 3 government / making laws
  57. 4 dangerous or unpleasant jobs (What happens if there are no criminals?)
  58. 5 business, economics, and money
  59. 6 foreign policy / war
  60. What laws would you make for each of these areas if you had the power to?
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  62. trial balloon = a tentative measure or statement made to see how a new policy would be received
  63. epistemic crisis = an inability to even agree on the facts of reality, let alone cooperate and discuss values
  64. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/16/20964281/impeachment-hearings-trump-america-epistemic-crisis
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