SHS Philosophy Club
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Politics of Control/Stimuli/Behavior: FlackCheck.Org
You might enjoy an entertaining look at "truth out of context"... dare we call them lies? Manipulative for sure. For more, visit flackcheck.org or listen to an interesting interview [here click listen on "Political Ads of the 2012 Race].
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Take Control of P-Club!
Post your suggestions/directions/topics/questions...
...where does P-Club go in December?
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Milgram Experiment
Here is a longer video of a contemporary confirmation of Milgram's results. Sorry about the commercial inserts.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Control, Stimuli, Behavior
The control and introduction of stimuli such as information into our environment that can or may influence our behavior or behavorial patterns or normal behavior of a person.
Supermarkets and Store Organization
Sunday, October 23, 2011
C/S/B: Propaganda (Part III)
Friday, October 21, 2011
First Topic 2011
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Welcome to P-Club 2011-12: (Winning?) The Salt and Pepper Game
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Welcome to P-club 2010-2011
Monday, June 07, 2010
WAR, WORKING OUT: What is it good for?
The production of weapons of mass destruction has always been associated with economic "waste." The term is pejorative, since it implies a failure of function. But no human activity can properly be considered wasteful if it achieves its contextual objective. The phrase "wasteful but necessary," applied not only to war expenditures, but to most of the "unproductive" commercial activities of our society, is a contradiction in terms.
"... The attacks that have since the time of Samuel’s criticism of King Saul been leveled against military expenditures as waste may well have concealed or misunderstood the point that some kinds of waste may have a larger social utility." [13]
In the case of military "waste," there is indeed a larger social utility. It derives from the fact that the "wastefulness" of war production is exercised entirely outside the framework of the economy of supply and demand. As such, it provides the only critically large segment of the total economy that is subject to complete and arbitrary central control. If modern industrial societies can be defined as those which have developed the capacity to produce more than is required for their economic survival (regardless of the equities of distribution of goods within them), military spending can be said to furnish the only balance wheel with sufficient inertia to stabilize the advance of their economies. The fact that war is "wasteful" is what enables it to serve this function. And the faster the economy advances, the heavier this balance wheel must be.
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilized world.