Karl Marx Quotes

• "Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

• "Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

• "Democracy is the road to socialism."

• "Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

• "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."

Conformity

From Bad to Worse? US Face of Poverty

A revolution without a plan

Marx told them to have a plan but . . . ok so now you know a little more about Karl Marx & Emile Durkheim.  Look over to the right here & see the "poll" - vote for movie(s) you want selected for the mid-term paper which is due 2 weeks from today.  I'll report choice by Saturday morning, giving you 1.5 weeks to get the ONE movie you choose from the 2 highest vote getters.

Next week, four things:  1) chart on Raging Bull 2) everyone read "The Stranger" and write 1/2 to 1 page on it.  3) Group B people read Chapter 5 in the book "Knowing People" (on reserve in library).   4) comment on this post 
AND LOOK also to the Right:  I finally posted the link to the great 6 part, 5 hour series on Civilization from the Harvard Professor.  Just try Part 1 and see if you love it. 

This article shocked me... Could accused Norway killer land in luxurious prison?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/accused-norway-killer-may-land-luxurious-prison-173329040.html

Should the punished deserve luxury to better build them up, give them confidence through education and work and have them leave as better people? That's what the region's governor, Are Hoidal, said at the prison's opening ceremony last year.
He believes that prisons should focus on "human rights and respect." What do you think?

video showcasing a montage of how powerful symbols can be used for the better of good or bad

A high school group created this video to show the different cliques they found at their school

Did anyone hear about this one in the news (2 weeks ago)? This is sick... Florida Teen Allegedly Kills Parents, Hosts Party Afterward

Comment here (assigned for this week) GOOD KARMA - BAD KARMA

Do you believe in it? Does people's behavior come back to haunt them or help/serve them in the end?

Social Experiments

Hey everyone,  Very sorry for joining so late. I've been quite busy prepping and shooting my thesis project for CCH, but now I'm all ears and ready to be a part of the topics of convo.

I wanted to share a pretty interesting social experiment done by ABC, which shows a staged situation in which a black woman is being discriminated by store clerks, and the reactions of the customers.

It seems that so many people claim to not be racist but when they're put to the test in public scenarios in which others are being discriminated by the majority or authority, they become passive and would rather have nothing to do with it, or even side with the discriminators when under pressure.

Check it out and think about the next time you're faced with a situation like this and how you'd react, really..

Gang Mentality in Apes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1288367/Chimps-violent-killing-sprees-land-neighbours.html

Whenever I hear someone talking about gang life in a positive light, I always recall a lecture I heard about the similarities between Ape and Human Gangs. I found this article but it does not list the similarities, it just explains that chimps form gangs. What I was told, gangs are formed amongst weak apes in order to rape female apes. In human gangs, when a girl wants to join, she must have sex with everyone in the gang and likewise for the apes. In both species the weak less dominate males join gangs in order to become stronger and loose their virginities. What does that tell you?

~Dr. Doom out

OK let's hear it for Amy