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  1. Nov 2020
  2. www.whatsoproudlywehail.org www.whatsoproudlywehail.org
    The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society
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    1. jpackman7 02 Nov 2020
      No democracy can survive with a middle class so insecure that it is willing to accept any authoritarian option in order to provide some sense of normalcy and security in their lives. It also opens the door for significant segments of that middle class to scapegoat those who are most vulnerable.

      I find it interesting that people with any type of economic stability can be so ignorant to what people without it have to go through to survive. If everyone had gone through a period of their life living paycheck to paycheck, like so many do, we would live in a very different world.

    2. jpackman7 02 Nov 2020
      One percent of the population owns 48 percent of the total net financial wealth. The top 10 percent owns 86 percent of the wealth, while the top 20 percent owns 94 percent of the wealth. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the population is experiencing stagnating and declining wages.

      If this trend continues, the rich continue to get richer and the poor continue to get poorer, I hate to think what will happen.

    3. jpackman7 02 Nov 2020
      For most of history ordinary people have been viewed as “weeds and rain drops,” as part of a mob, a rabble, all of which are ways of constituting them as an undifferentiated mob.

      I think that it is important for all of us to remember that while we are part of the whole, we all still have the power to enacted change and that we don't have to do just as everyone else does.

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  3. Sep 2020
  4. nautil.us nautil.us
    The Deep Space of Digital Reading - Issue 32: Space - Nautilus
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    1. jpackman7 06 Sep 2020
      It’s true that studies have found that readers given text on a screen do worse on recall and comprehension tests than readers given the same text on paper.

      I agree with this statement that people read and understand better when they read a physical copy rather than on a screen, but I also think that there may be another reason for this rather then what the author talks about. I think when you are reading on a screen there are way more distractions. You will have notifications popping up, and you are also just one click away from something to take your focus away from what you are reading.

    2. jpackman7 06 Sep 2020
      “rotary reading desk” which allowed the reader to keep a great number of books at once, and to switch between them by giving the wheel a turn

      This is similar to how nowadays we can have multiple tabs or widows open on our computers, looking at two or more different things at the same time.

    3. jpackman7 06 Sep 2020
      To read silently is to free your mind to reflect

      I think this is a very interesting idea, because now that I am thinking about it when you read aloud you do understand what you are reading, but you don't get the experience of feeling like you are actually there

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  5. Aug 2020
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    The Case Against Democracy
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    1. jpackman7 30 Aug 2020
      If I do not vote, your vote counts more

      I have seen this topic around lot lately with current election. A lot of people do not like either Trump nor Biden and are considering not voting for either, and a majority of the responses from the left to this are "not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump"

    2. jpackman7 30 Aug 2020
      Fairness alone didn’t seem to be enough. If it were, Estlund wrote, “why not flip a coin?

      I found this statement interesting because if the decision is just between two people, logically flipping a coin would be fair, but no one would want any leader to be picked just at random. The voter is very important at picking who is the most qualified and will make the best decisions

    3. jpackman7 30 Aug 2020
      aw required new voters to take a test if they couldn’t prove that they had an eighth-grade education

      This was just one of the many places that had laws like this to keep minorities from voting. A lot of places in the United States had basic literacy test to keep people from voting.

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