Beggar: Create a sense of pity in passers

Politician: Election day just pasted and for an entire month people where trying to hand me flyers before it got on  the LIRR. Representatives also came to my door.

Religious Group: The First that come to mind are Jehovah’s witness because everyone has had them come to their door at one point or another.

Subway Performers: There is this band that performs on the R going uptown and the lead singer is really aggressive. He says “the appropriate thing to do after a musical performance is clap” to which I respond “…” I hope everyone makes it minus him.

 

Manipulation is when your not aware of what your truly being convinced of. The speakers true attentions are not easily identifiable  Persuasion is makes the goal of the speaker known and uses tools to effect the listeners reasoning. Both aim to effect judgement but in different ways. Persuasion allows the listen to be aware of the majority of the variables involved in making decisions, it changes the perception of how these maybe viewed.

In the United States language is used to produce ideas that are key in the formation of “individual” opinions. Beliefs are reinforced through constant exposure. The public is conditioned to adopt values that promote class separation; as well as accept the criteria for which each of these separations is based on.

It is my opinion, rigid class divisions exist to benefit the institutions currently in place that allow 1% of the U.S. Population to control the majority (around 65%) of the wealth. Language is used to support the U.S. financial hierarchy, and protect the positions of those already empowered (the wealthiest’s) within it. “Financial Classism” makes upward mobility difficult by separating the rich from everyone else, and then separating everyone else from everyone else.

Noam Chomsky provides some insight as to how and why the systems mentioned above exist.

Economics teaches us that markets are based on informed consumers making informed rational decision. Advertising creates uninformed or misinformed consumers who in turn make irrational decisions. The public relations is a billion dollar industry, predicated on swaying public opinion. PR firms are in charge of running most of today’s political campaigns. They create uninformed voters who in turn make uninformed decisions undermining what is suppose to be the world “best democracy.”

Chomsky points out the PR industry developed in the “freest countries in the world” namely England and the U.S. Business understand it is getting more difficult to control people by force. The next step is control over ideas. He believes government and businesses do this in collision through policies and practices that “inform” people of where they rank and what that identity means for them individually and relation to the other groups. Attacks on education, propaganda marketing, and ideas perpetuated about peoples value and values based on inaccurate superficial indicators, determine their limitations. Thus the poor are exposed to fewer opportunities.

Lack of opportunity and little focus academic enrichment in historically marginalized communities make it difficult for members to envision themselves breaking this cycle (unless it’s through sports or entertainment)

Wealthy students graduate high school with an average of 30,000 more worlds than poor students, the message communicated to them with these 30,000 is one of endless possibility. Unfortunately, it is also one that induces a sense of entitlement and superiority. While interviewing Chomsky student Michael Dranove notes a discussion between him and his father. Dranove points out that wages in the U.S. are much lower compared to other industrialized countries, to which his father who is a professor of health economics at North Western University responded: “it’s not my fault people decide to blow their paycheck on a big screen T.V.”…

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Chomsky discusses the ideology behind class separation in the U.S. When the wealthy believe their way of life is being threatened they suppress those beneath them with policy and the spread of ideas. Chomsky believes that these ideas either created or catalyze divisions within the middle and lower class.  Media is used to influence as well as confuse the working class and the poor. False perceptions about identity and the intentional overcomplication of politics and other matters beneficail to the elite help keep the rich rich and the poor poorer.

 

Citiation

Lamont, M. (2017). How Culture Matters For Poverty: Thickening our Understanding. National Poverty Center Working Paper Series, 6-10. doi:10.18411/a-2017-023

http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/workingpaper06/paper10/working_paper06-10.pdf

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A study done by Michele Lamont and Mario Luis Small take a deeper look at the relationship between those in poverty and the narrative of these communitites within the context of American culture. The authors look at the messages communicated to the poor through the education system, popular culture, news, and so on. Small belives American culture instills an inferiority complex within the poor communities. This paper also touches on the demonization of the poor, particularly among the wealthy.

 

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Chris Hedges discusses his experiences at a wealthy boarding school and prestigious college. Being the only one to come from a working-class background Hedges talks about how being allowed behind the “closed door” of the rich provided him with context and perspective. Hedges notes the experiences of F. Scott Fitzgerland and his similar upbringing which Scott expressed through a series of short stories leading up to the Great Gatsby entitled “The Rich Boy.” Hedges says aside from more educational resources, the rich also receive lessons on how to recognize outsiders unworthy of opportunities for advancement and are instilled with a sense of entitlement that allows them to view those not as financially fortunate as less.

 

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Chris Hedges interview Noam Chomsky. In this talk know touch on fundamental economic theories being twisted for the benefit of the wealthy and the wealthies influence on the economist realize that although in theory, our system should work fine, in actuality today’s practices stretch far beyond a “balanced economy” which is why crashes have been happening more frequently. The two also discuss how language is overcomplicated in the financial and political word so regular people can’t understand and have to assume those who “understand” concepts beyond their comprehension are suppose to rule.

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Fallacies are errors in reasoning; there are two classes, formal and informal. Formal fallacies are arguments made invalid due to ineffective structure, classified by errors in logical form. Informal fallacies are arguments that lack reason in relation to content and context rather than form, although this may also be incorrect. To put it simply a fallacy is a bad argument. You’re going to make some bad arguments. Each person has a unique set of experiences, and way of experiencing the world. Differences in perspective yield basis. Often, basis go unnoticed and are accepted as fact. Is difficult for people to recognize these errors in logic because the relationships present in their argument may be based on ideas they didn’t conciously adopt but identify as true (custom, culture, superstition, religion, upbringing, etc)

“Camel”
Whether it is true or not, I’m not going to argue against this advertisements claims Doctors enjoy Camel cigarettes opposed to other brands. This advertisement assumes that because doctors (medical health professionals) prefer Camel cigarettes, smoking cigarettes doesn’t pose a threat to your health.

“Silva”
First, this argument assumes women are like cigarettes women without providing any parallels. I have no two reason to believe women share anything with cigarettes. Second, It is stated both cigarettes and women are at their best when “rich and skinny,” without providing any backing. What if I prefer my women fat and broke?

“Coca-Cola”
Although Coca-Cola is partially held by Berkshire Hathway and Warren Buffet is one of my idols, I’ll need to ask for forgiveness in advance on this one. This add makes absolutely no sense. The product as absolutely nothing to do with the athlete or her (impressive) personal bio. The arrow is pointing to the Coke, but when you read the caption its another “fun fact” about Michelle. It’s like the team in charge of advertising and promotions for Coca-Cola at the Olympics made this so philosophy professors teaching an undergraduate course would have something to talk about (for a while) if they forgot the flash drive with the classes powerpoint on it at home.

Project 2 Final

 

My draft for Project 2 is one of the worst drafts I’ve ever done. I wouldn’t even call it a draft. My first stab at Project 2 is more like a somewhat concentrated stream on consciousness, emphasis on somewhat. I can’t remember the last time I’ve struggled this much with a writing assignment. I did however gain some insight as to why I might code switch, during my internal dialogue. I’m worried most about structuring these ideas.

The methodology portion wasn’t that difficult to be. I reffered back to my daily planner to see the time frames I scheduled each activity knowing there was is difference in my langugae based on what I’m trying to solve.

Gee says “using language we must say or write the right thing in the right way while playing the right social role and (appearing) to hold the right values, beliefs, and attitudes.” In Gees essay Literacy Discourse and Linguistics we are forced to look at language from a different perspective.

This experiment has forced me to recognize the majority of conversations I have are within my own head and try to understand analyze the nature of these “conversations.”

Learning is extremely context based

The majority of my time is spent actively learning. In order to do this

I’ve also found that when focused although my body may be present what most would recognize as the “self” couldn’t be any farther. This intense focus and an innate passion for abstraction are why I believe I adopt these languages.

As I said before learning is extremely context based. The purpose is what drives these different languages. When I’m faced with a difficult task I try to understand it from the perspective of someone who’s already mastered it.

In order to do this, I need to create context. I do this in two ways, by learning the basic level of knowledge just under what it is I’m actually trying to learn. By trying to understand how people who’ve excelled at I’m tackling think and making adjustments to own way for processing.

I think this is my way of tricking myself into believing I’m a full member of a discourse. This is comforting and makes attacking my goals much less intimidating.

It is much scary to think about advanced calculus as a college student trying to understand advanced calculus as opposed to a mathematician who has a problem to solve. This context also gives me more of a reason to invest in my learning. Obstacles now become problems that test my intellectual ability as opposed to arbitrary hurdles that don’t really matter in the greater scheme of things

I find purpose in learning by relating the subject to personal goals. If I can’t relate it to a specific personal goal that in goals in the category I’ve classified as “cognitive excise” these activities or problems don’t have any correlation to actual goals but I see them as a way to strengthen my ability to think in an abstract way and process information.

I create this language to turn myself into the type of person able to attack these problems. Much like people adopt discourses to convince others they belong.

These different “internal discourses” are also fine-tuned through apprenticeships. In its most basic form is probably mimicking aside from writing an email. Those two although began with mimicking my mother have been influenced by so many because I’ve had the privilege of knowing so many who have a greater understanding of the English language and use it beautifully and I’ve also come into my own as a writer and speaker

The purpose of peer talk I’ve found is mostly to comfort, inform, and motivate (majority of the time in that order)

I may not have that many conversations throughout the day depending on the setting. It is difficult to differentiate between the small amount of data I do have. Most of the conversations I had outside my own head were brief, polite, and superficial.

“Good Morning”

“Enjoy your weekend”

“Take care”

You get the idea…