Small Group Discussions
February 14th, 2006 - Eric, Shev, Vincent, Ray
The discussion today revolved around wealth inequality. Amazingly enough, the ethnicities in our conversation, who were Shev and myself found it to be a horrible thing which shouldn't be. Eric disagreed with this and held firm on his belief that without wealth inequality no one can be rich--exclaiming that "if the niggers and spics aren't kept down the white people can't rise up." This didn't strike me as odd.
February 16th, 2006 - Eric, Ray
On the train today Eric and I continued a discussion we began in class about Epistemology. We weren't exactly sure of if we had been dwindling things down to the correct truths ourselves. Eric believed that he spent most of his life disregarding what most people referred to as common truths to find his own meanings for what went on in the world. I believe I can certainly relate to that. I didn't say that, though. I wonder why.
February 17th, 2006 - Eric, Ray, Shev, Vincent
The small group discussion today revolved around the different systems of power in our world. Eric mentioned capitalism. Vincent mentioned comics for some reason and I concluded that one of the most affluent of them was religion. It was saddening to see no one contest my ideas. Have my friends become complacent?
March 10th, 2006 - Eric, Shev, Vincent, Ray, Andy
We discussed the spectacle today. "What is it?" was the discussion question. We all agreed with Eric when he said that "anything that is mass produced and becomes popular with people who don't understand or care about the implication." This meant that those who do understand the spectacle were not subject to the direct of the spectacle, but were still forced to deal with the idiots who were part of it.
March 20th, 2006 -Eric, Ray, Vincent, Shev, Andy
Today was a lackluster day for discussion. It seems like we couldn't be too creative with what we were saying. I think I can say without ego though that I saved our discussion by explaining that in the Grapes of Wrath, that the creators of the original bank system were to blame for the problems the town had. They put into place a means by which workers were forced to do things they didn't want to do to maintain their jobs. Since the workers at the bank were in charge of inflicting harm on others in the form of financial destruction, they were harming others who would then perpetuate hatred.