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24 Nov 09

…My heart’s in Accra » From compassion to action, from action to knowledge

  • Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing “we” can do – but who is that “we”? – and nothing “they” can do either – and who are “they” – then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.
  • Here’s my question: does it matter if action is effective or ineffective if we can demonstrate that action leads to more interest in a topic and more knowledge acquisition?
24 Oct 09

It's Only A Theory: Examples of Suggestive Evidence

  • philosophers tend to cut off the product from the process and then focus exclusively on the former.
11 Sep 09

Anthropology, ‘Internet Addiction’, and Care | Savage Minds

  • I will say one thing, though, that particularly bugs me about this discourse of Internet addiction: it seems at times to rely on an underlying model of human desire and commitment that I am not very happy with. It seems to imply that a proper human life is one in which you chose freely and autonomously what will make you feel happy and fulfilled. I would even go further to say that in the case of the rise of ‘spirituality’ as an idea and its subsequent marketing in the form of scented candles and white yoga clothing, Americans are increasingly urged not to care about anything at all. This sense of ‘bliss’ or ‘serenity’ or ‘calmness’ is seen as what people naturally want.
  • This sense of choosing freely—the ‘vending machine’ theory of well-being—or simply doing your best not to care at all offends several of my sensibilities, only some of which I’ll discuss here. In particular, I must admit that I think there is something wrong with a society that increasingly understands commitment as ‘addiction’. Many things in life—the most important ones, I think—are things that we commit ourselves not because we chose them, but because they chose us. Partially this is the appeal of craftsmanship—the idea that good work is worth doing for its own sake: that you are drawn into a project because of the worlds it discloses to you. But partly it is because human beings exist in webs of meaning and caring that they themselves have not spun, and this communal nature of life is too often overlooked American society today. Are we making passion, commitment, and dedication dirty words? Are we turning them into illnesses?
05 Sep 09

A Life Best Ordinary: Social Reproduction of the Status Quo « Generation Bubble

  • “status quo bias,” a force that leads us to need more than what would constitute a rational incentive by economists’ rules in order to prompt us to alter our established behavior. Rather than questioning who stands to benefit from the status quo, the status quo bias lets us pin the blame for reproducing things as they are, with all the existing inequities, on irrational, short-sighted individuals (i.e., us) who are wired to resist change and can’t really be taught what might be better for them. The best we can do is to not rile them out of their rut.
  • might the status quo bias itself be encouraged by the beneficiaries of an existing order to preserve their advantages?
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09 Aug 09

jerome bruner and the process of education


  • Bruner, J., Goodnow, J., & Austin, A. (1956) A Study of Thinking,
    New York: Wiley.

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