{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"CAPITALISM HAS AFFECTED ME"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Capitalism has given me greater freedom. Coming from Enlightenment thought which gave us the ideals of unalienable rights of man including life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Adam Smith expanded on this to argue, \nCapitalism has provided greater choices (selection of goods, career, etc.)\nCapitalism has provided a good standard of living and improved conditions.\nCapitalism has created a number of middle-class jobs making it more likely I may be employed.\nBecause capitalism allows for innovation, labor unions formed to provide collective force of employees to overcome unsafe work conditions, low pay, long work hours, etc. meaning the free capitalist market has provided me with safe work conditions, acceptable pay (and freedom to go someplace else is the pay is not acceptable), and standardized work hours. \n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"COMMENTS ON THE PODCAST"},{"attributes":{"align":"center"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"“It’s true because I want to believe it” with relationships. It seems we have to want it to work in order to make it work. If this is related to “It’s true because I ‘need’ it to be true so I can be happy,” the concept likely is unreasonable.\nThe opposite of “we do it because it’s what we’ve always done” is as unreasonable as “we’ve always done it that way so it must be obsolete, let’s change it.” People have said the Constitution is obsolete because it does not consider modernity and its ramifications. However, the Constitution allows for amendment which would provide for that change. If people choose not to go through the effort of the amendment process it is a failure of the people, not of the document itself. Another reaction to that is that it is obsolete because we have outcomes we don’t like therefore, we can legitimately bypass it. \nSocio-centric thinking leads to a situation such as that articulated in the Shirley Jackson short story "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"The Lottery"},{"insert":". The last words of the victim were, “It isn’t fair. It isn’t right.” One of these statements is apparently false while the other is arguably true. This story was an attempt by Jackson to point out the danger of blindly following tradition.\nIf we engage in socio-centric thinking and we are aware of that fact, are we to accept the beliefs of other societies as no better nor no worse that ours? In other words, are there absolute truths? This question comes from some recent reading in which it appears that males in a number of cultures accept rape as legitimate. I can’t believe that action can be considered acceptable because I don’t want to believe it. I can’t imagine it to be legitimate. Is this an error in thinking? I can form a cogent argument against this act based on the rights of all people but if women, in the subject culture, are considered lesser, that argument will not convince any men in that culture to change.  \n"}]}