HW33- Closing I&D Comments

My comment on Casey's HW32-

lol with the formatting, not sure what happened there :P

Excellent job connecting the unit with the "Invisible hand", a term that wasn't uttered once in the last month! And you are completely right! The conservatives (the ones who have the military preferred view you cited) have this fetish with military spending so they can pulverize other nations and act as the "tough guy" while behind their backs our OWN people are withering away.

I wish it were as easy as spending in the right places, and maybe this IS the most practical way of doing things in our current situation. But I think overall we need a reassessment of what our biggest enemy is: sickness (and not the spending fetish kind, the physical and sometimes mental (which was surprisingly hardly discussed at all this unit... parenthesis in parenthesis ftw...) kind). People are acting as if money is all what has kept us advancing in science... when it's really only ALLOWING us to continue (because money has "stuff" value)- the KNOWLEDGE has been with us all along. If it weren't for corruption and research was free to do... we probably would be much further along.

Great post to cap off an awesome blog for this unit!
Evan

My comment on Eloise's HW32-

My goodness! I almost forgot about you Eloise! Sorry xD

You have some really strong ideas here (the structures of power Andy mentioned, game of fighting evils, neutrality, etc.) but your overall post seems like it was cut short! I would have really liked to read your thoughts on certain examples or more in-depth explanations (you deal a ton of absolutes in this post, before you make such statements you should dig deep). Anywho, your ideas themselves are concrete, and the whole thing was articulated well for the short length of the post- though it left me wanting more.

I look forward to reading you blog in the next unit (for the short time that I'll actually be here...),

Evan

Casey's comment on MY HW32-

Evan,
Your post raised some interesting questions. Why do you say that "When man is dropped into a world where time is limited..he brings suffering and doom upon the weaker population out of fear, not hatred." Who embodies the weaker population? What evidence from the unit led you to this idea of fear vs. hatred? You're first paragraph contains much potential for being very meaningful to the reader, but I do not completely understand your reasoning behind your insights.
My favorite sentence was "In a sense we all contribute to how the world turns out to be each and every day" because this knowledge is not only interesting and potentially encouraging, but also an inspiration for acting in a way that will benefit the world.

Eloise's comment on MY HW32-

Mom's comment on MY HW32-

I think what you meant by your opening is that what man fears most is death, and that man has the capacity for great cruelty when he feels his existence or well-being is threatened; I quite agree. I loved the way you expounded on the way each of us affects all of us. And I particularly loved the reference to music and poetry as some of the conveyors with which we transfer our knowledge, our feelings, linking the whole of humanity through generations and time. Mom

Aaron's comment on MY HW32-

I AM SO SORRY FOR POSTING THIS SO LATE! I didn't get your text message till today! I will try my best to never let this happen. Sorry if it is too late to comment! Anyway, the quote "People are acting as if money is all what has kept us advancing in science... when it's really only ALLOWING us to continue (because money has "stuff" value)- the KNOWLEDGE has been with us all along. If it weren't for corruption and research was free to do... we probably would be much further along." stands out to me. It shows that we aren't fully using all what we have. We have the money to advance in science, but not everything needs money. I agree we could get much more research for science if it didn't have a cost.