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http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/excerpts/scott_seeing.pdf - 0 views

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- Finn Sukkestad on 10 Dec 12
  
  I like wat he writes about out capitalistic market, I agree that it takes away the humane aspect to anything when your only goal that you share with millions of other people is to make money, and to do so you must consume natural recources and then sell them for the highest price possible. There is no selflessness to it there is just personal monetary gain, I think that when your only happiness is invested in money there is something wrong with the society we live in.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I like wat he writes about out capitalistic market, I agree that it takes away the humane aspect to anything when your only goal that you share with millions of other people is to make money, and to do so you must consume natural recources and then sell them for the highest price possible. There is no selflessness to it there is just personal monetary gain, I think that when your only happiness is invested in money there is something wrong with the society we live in.</div>
  
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Amsterdam as Smart City: Going Green, Fast - Businessweek - 2 views

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http://www.astcweb.org/public/publication/documents/Burkley%20Sept%202008%20TJE1.pdf - 7 views

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- Finn Sukkestad on 27 Nov 12
  
  It is interesting how severely it seems that fatigue can effect your willingness and ability to resist persuasion. It makes me wonder in what state are you best qualified to make decisions. I feel as though when you have tons fo energy maybe more than usual you may make rash decisions and resist too much because you have the energy to do so, conversely if you have too little you are too feeble and will believe too much to the point of being naive and ignorant.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It is interesting how severely it seems that fatigue can effect your willingness and ability to resist persuasion. It makes me wonder in what state are you best qualified to make decisions. I feel as though when you have tons fo energy maybe more than usual you may make rash decisions and resist too much because you have the energy to do so, conversely if you have too little you are too feeble and will believe too much to the point of being naive and ignorant.</div>
  
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Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate | Marc Lynch - 3 views

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- Finn Sukkestad on 14 Nov 12
  
  A part of me hopes that people do not take everything Jay-Z sings about as part of their own ideologies. He is number one on the Forbes list as an entertainer and I think people forget that, there is a certain amount of meaning to his rap but he is also making music that he hopes will sell and make him a lot of money and not always trying to send the most morally correct message to listeners.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A part of me hopes that people do not take everything Jay-Z sings about as part of their own ideologies. He is number one on the Forbes list as an entertainer and I think people forget that, there is a certain amount of meaning to his rap but he is also making music that he hopes will sell and make him a lot of money and not always trying to send the most morally correct message to listeners.</div>
  
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Sample Chapter for Ober, J.: Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classi... - 3 views

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The bad news offered here is that it is only by mobilizing knowledge that is widely dispersed across a genuinely diverse community that a free society can hope to outperform its rivals while remaining true to its values. The good news is that by putting knowledge to work, democracy can fulfill that hope.2
- Finn Sukkestad on 10 Nov 12
  
  Facebook and other social networks perform this function in a way by making it possible to share information with a large group of possibly a diverse community. However, most of the information shared has some sor of hidden agenda it seems and therefore make it very difficult to trust or really think about the information. Likewise, the anecdotes of information are usually just present in the mind for as long as you are looking at the screen and disappears as you scroll down with two fingers. I think that social networking and the internet in general have the potential to do a lot fo good in our society by spreading knowledge the hard part is getting that knowledge to make a difference in peoples lives and their ideologies which directly effect the country as a whole when it comes to voting.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Facebook and other social networks perform this function in a way by making it possible to share information with a large group of possibly a diverse community. However, most of the information shared has some sor of hidden agenda it seems and therefore make it very difficult to trust or really think about the information. Likewise, the anecdotes of information are usually just present in the mind for as long as you are looking at the screen and disappears as you scroll down with two fingers. I think that social networking and the internet in general have the potential to do a lot fo good in our society by spreading knowledge the hard part is getting that knowledge to make a difference in peoples lives and their ideologies which directly effect the country as a whole when it comes to voting.</div>
  
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McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker - 4 views

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Dan Dennett: Dangerous memes | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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- Finn Sukkestad on 05 Nov 12
  
  I really like Daniel Dennett and his movie the four horsemen, this was not his best performance speaking wise and he is definitely not the speaker that Christopher Hitchens was or Sam Harris is. However, I like this talk, I like that he uses his knowledge of science to help explain the severity of the take over of the mind that these memes have on people just like the parasite he talkes about in the beginning.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I really like Daniel Dennett and his movie the four horsemen, this was not his best performance speaking wise and he is definitely not the speaker that Christopher Hitchens was or Sam Harris is. However, I like this talk, I like that he uses his knowledge of science to help explain the severity of the take over of the mind that these memes have on people just like the parasite he talkes about in the beginning. </div>
  
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Data & Design How-to's Note 1: Where is your evidence? | Drawing by Numbers - 2 views

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Can we bridge the worlds of theory and policy? | Stephen M. Walt - 1 views

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- Finn Sukkestad on 16 Oct 12
  
  I think that Mr. Walt has it sort of right, at some point the research that is done in Academia becomes self indulgent of the scientist, they are just feeding their own curiosity rather than actually finding answers to questions held my many people and instead just a few who live their lives in the same area of academics and therefore have the same interests.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I think that Mr. Walt has it sort of right, at some point the research that is done in Academia becomes self indulgent of the scientist, they are just feeding their own curiosity rather than actually finding answers to questions held my many people and instead just a few who live their lives in the same area of academics and therefore have the same interests.</div>
  
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Uzodinma Iweala - Stop Trying To 'Save' Africa - 3 views

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pick out children to adopt in much the same way my friends and I in New York take the subway to the pound to adopt stray dogs.
- Finn Sukkestad on 11 Oct 12
  
  This really illustrates the majority of the college liberals who say they want to save africa, I think that if we just gave the same sympathy that we give to africa to the destitute in our own country then more people would help because it would bring that same fame and self fulfillment as someone who is making a difference for someone.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This really illustrates the majority of the college liberals who say they want to save africa, I think that if we just gave the same sympathy that we give to africa to the destitute in our own country then more people would help because it would bring that same fame and self fulfillment as someone who is making a difference for someone.</div>
  
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Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt - 9 views

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morality is any system of interlocking values, practices, institutions, and psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate selfishness and make social life possible.
- Finn Sukkestad on 09 Oct 12
  
  I rally like this definition of morality. I think that is considers most peoples goal despite having different morals. I say most because I cant try to say that i know every set of moral standards held by each individual on this planet. But i think that this is a very non discriminating definition of what morals are really for and it takes away the maliciousness of some morals by giving them a goal of grater good.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I rally like this definition of morality. I think that is considers most peoples goal despite having different morals. I say most because I cant try to say that i know every set of moral standards held by each individual on this planet. But i think that this is a very non discriminating definition of what morals are really for and it takes away the maliciousness of some morals by giving them a goal of grater good. </div>
  
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"the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."
- Finn Sukkestad on 09 Oct 12
  
  This could be taken a long way by applying it to today. You could say that the government in raising taxes for the one percent in order to prevent unhealthy and harmful lifestyles for those less privledged. Just a thought.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This could be taken a long way by applying it to today. You could say that the government in raising taxes for the one percent in order to prevent unhealthy and harmful lifestyles for those less privledged. Just a thought.</div>
  
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The Road to Serfdom - Readers Digest, April 1945 Condensation - 7 views

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in the democracies the majority of people still believe that socialism and freedom can be combined.
- Finn Sukkestad on 24 Sep 12
  
  I understand the connection he is trying to make between slavery and socialism but which is better or easier and less expensive for a government to run? I think that our "free democracy" is just a cheaper version of slavery which according the the article is one and the same as socialism. I feel like our government has found that efficiency point where people here are paid just enough to do what we want them to without having to actually care about the well being of the workers. Think about what it took for an american slave owner to keep his or her slave working. They had to make sure that the slave had a place to sleep, cloths, enough food to make sure they could do all the work they were asked to to. Today nobody worries about how their gardner or house cleaning is living, they pay them just enought to do teh work you asked and then they go back to wherever they can afford to live and eat what they can with the small amount of money they made from cleaning or mowing as many houses and lawns as the time in one day would let them. I am not saying that I am pro slavery I am just asking the question, which one provides more for the work?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I understand the connection he is trying to make between slavery and socialism but which is better or easier and less expensive for a government to run? I think that our "free democracy" is just a cheaper version of slavery which according the the article is one and the same as socialism. I feel like our government has found that efficiency point where people here are paid just enough to do what we want them to without having to actually care about the well being of the workers. Think about what it took for an american slave owner to keep his or her slave working. They had to make sure that the slave had a place to sleep, cloths, enough food to make sure they could do all the work they were asked to to. Today nobody worries about how their gardner or house cleaning is living, they pay them just enought to do teh work you asked and then they go back to wherever they can afford to live and eat what they can with the small amount of money they made from cleaning or mowing as many houses and lawns as the time in one day would let them. I am not saying that I am pro slavery I am just asking the question, which one provides more for the work?</div>
  
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What Makes Us Happy? - Joshua Wolf Shenk - The Atlantic - 0 views

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- Finn Sukkestad on 24 Sep 12
  
  i like the direction of the video how he talks about why getting old isn't as scary as everyone thinks it is. That being old can be just as much but different fun as being young. I cant say that after this I am looking forward to being 60 but I can say that I can understand not wanting to be sitting there thinking about how boring it is when the time comes but rather find the little things in life that really make you happy.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">i like the direction of the video how he talks about why getting old isn't as scary as everyone thinks it is. That being old can be just as much but different fun as being young. I cant say that after this I am looking forward to being 60 but I can say that I can understand not wanting to be sitting there thinking about how boring it is when the time comes but rather find the little things in life that really make you happy.</div>
  
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views

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