Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Media Cannot be ‘Neutral’ on Roe v. Wade
Let me set the scene for you: 6pm EST; my grandmother’s living room. We zoom in slowly on local newscaster Ryan Bonazzo: hair sharp, sporting an amazing shirt and tie combo. And then a rift into a Margret Atwood series opens.
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False Faultlines
An article written in response to the concept of Faultlines in 2022.
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Distorted Democracy: Wealth, Power, and Privilege in the 2019 Varsity Blues Scandal
This scandal holds the potential to be a devastating blow to educational institutions, however, the media is framing it as a celebrity story without sustained investigation and discussion. Changes in visibility and new media have led to a preferred storyline that is already reaching its denouement during the investigation.
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Public Health and Personal Autonomy: The Global Community in the Age of Pandemics
***Updated December 31, 2021 – now with better writing, and discussion of the racial disparities in diabetes diagnoses. Many thanks to Mandy for correcting my broad-stroked (and sometimes incorrect) medical claims***
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‘The World Will Be Better if You Share More’: exploitation, commodification, and docile bodies; a socialist conception of privacy on social media platforms.
**update January 2022 – further discussion about the distracting meta rebrand incoming**
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Tracking the Reproduction of Discriminatory Ideologies Through The Media
Media has consistently been created and disseminated by those in the ruling class, as they are the ones who own the means of producing it (Marx 9). Therefore, media will reproduce ideology that reinforces the domination of the working class and the ‘naturalism’ of capitalism, as those are the ideas that allow for those who…
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Confucianism, Climate Change, and The Power of Individual Lifestyle Choices
Given the current focus on effects of anthropogenic climate change, individuals may wonder what their moral obligations are to mitigate the issue. There has been little in the way of large-scale policy changes, and any personal changes in carbon emissions do not appear to make a large difference. In this paper, I will lay out…
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From Capitalism to Community: Individual Freedom is a Group Activity
In Capital, Karl Marx predicted that the fall of capitalism would come by the assembly of the large class of proletariat workers who would overthrow the bourgeoisie that became wealthier due to their hard work (22). However, this has not come to pass. In this paper I will show that capitalism relies on individualism in order to…
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Examination of the Principle of Unlimited Inquiry
To study something, it follows that one must first accept that it exists. Therefore, if we hope to gain knowledge of the outside world, it is epistemically reasonable to believe that it exists.
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Invisible Influences
We need not find the invisible hand of causation….[instead] we must write our own story of how the world works
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