Looking at the fourth element, I feel that the people can do something when the state is implementing a system into society. The fourth element says that society lacks capacity to resist. The workforce has the ability to halt production, so if they come together they can stop the state from doing whatever it is that their doing. 

It is very effective to use mimicry to persuade someone. If  a salesman tries to sell a product, his chances of selling his product are higher if he acts more like a friend rather than a complete stranger. 

If Jay-Z ignores the game, he will look like the bigger person. When the game led crowds in cheers of "F*** Jay-Z" and "Old Ass N*****" at some of his shows, it seemed like he was trying to get attention as well as gain supporters while they were fully into his music. 

When discussing all the great things a participatory democracy has to offer, we forget that not all neighborhoods are like Harambee and Lakeview. In other neighborhoods it is almost certain that not everybody is going to participate. The results are going to depend on those who do participate, but the results will affect the community as a whole. 

Sounds like a very nice hospital to me. It leaves me thinking, however, because McAllen has the lowest household income in the country. 

When everybody's ideas are shared, they do act as parasites. Some people might be immune to them in the sense that it may not affect them directly, but to a different person it can have an impact on them, negative or positive. As humans, we pursue ideas that we feel are important or that make us happy.

If everything is always going to lead to a constant dead end, then we wont get anything done. There's has to be cooperation for us to progress.

When we look at these broken spectacles, we don't really see anything more than 12 spectacles. Once we are told that they belonged to 12 of 58,000 victims of the Holocaust, it makes us picture how horribly these people were treated. Since the spectacles are different from one another, we can imagine that the victims were mistreated in many different ways which makes us think of more stories of what they went through. 

Someone who claims they hear things can be because of past experiences that has had a great impact on them. I think experiences can influence what a person believes or doesn't believe. 

We already have a picture in our mind that Africa is not the safest place to live but of course blood usually sells over the good things that happen over there. 

Some view the issue of poverty as "a consequence of human laziness or lack of initiative", but for the most part, that's looking at the issue from a wealthy person's point of view. If you ask someone who really is living in poverty they might argue that they are not given enough resources to progress or to one day be living a middle class life. On one side, people in poverty are being blamed, on the other side the people in poverty are blaming the government for their lack of support.