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There's an exercise that I often do with my first-year students
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Interreflections

There's an exercise that I oftendo with my first-year students

There's an exercise that I often
do with my first-year students

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There's an exercise that I often do with my first-year students.
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4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:16:35
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Genres
fantasy, sci-fi
Production
Gentle Machine Productions LLC

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In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as w
I have them research mainstream economic publications - Interreflections 00:09
I have them research mainstream economic publications
And each year the students come back stunned - Interreflections 00:08
And each year the students come back stunned
Such things were considered external - Interreflections 00:07
Such things were considered external
Here you had an entire global civilization - Interreflections 00:07
Here you had an entire global civilization
That's literally what drove their economy as absurd - Interreflections 00:09
That's literally what drove their economy as absurd
Hence more circulating purchasing power - Interreflections 00:06
Hence more circulating purchasing power
And to think any part of that would be workable - Interreflections 00:08
And to think any part of that would be workable
To make matters worse, the system was rooted - Interreflections 00:13
To make matters worse, the system was rooted
Racism, xenophobia, sexism and other forms of bigotry - Interreflections 00:14
Racism, xenophobia, sexism and other forms of bigotry
And when you put it all together, - Interreflections 00:05
And when you put it all together,
A pathology that not only severely limited human potential, - Interreflections 00:15
A pathology that not only severely limited human potential,
By the time we reached the 21st century - Interreflections 00:06
By the time we reached the 21st century
We're talking massive global inequity and poverty, - Interreflections 00:14
We're talking massive global inequity and poverty,
And while it seems obvious to us today, - Interreflections 00:07
And while it seems obvious to us today,
The culture was so conditioned - Interreflections 00:09
The culture was so conditioned
So by force of this, they engaged in very superficial activism - Interreflections 00:10
So by force of this, they engaged in very superficial activi...
Attempts at social change - Interreflections 00:08
Attempts at social change
Their so-called democratic process - Interreflections 00:10
Their so-called democratic process
A true democracy as we now know allows for public consensus - Interreflections 00:09
A true democracy as we now know allows for public consensus
That's simply a watered-down version of authoritarianism, - Interreflections 00:06
That's simply a watered-down version of authoritarianis...