Ma.gnolia: Mark Paschal's Bookmarks Tagged With "society"

WorldChanging: The Outquisition

markpasc — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:49:04 PDT

“And we got on this riff about heroes who got the paradox of the moment: that abandoned people and places are sometimes the ones who most need radical innovation; that, these days, new tools and models are practically scattered all over the ground, just waiting for people to pick them up; but that those who most need them are those who least know how to find them.”

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Tags: green, society, technology

potlatch: gift-theft economies

markpasc — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:32:35 PDT

“Publishers seem to believe that economics explains almost 'everything', but what would the rational choice brigade make of this incident? Ideally I would put this on a wiki, so that the mini-Stephen Levitt's could annotate it, explaining just what the fuck was going on.”

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Tags: economics, society, story, will davies

slacktivist: More on subsidiarity

markpasc — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:49:48 PST

“Subsidiarity is a key aspect of Catholic social teaching's critique of both of those extremes [communism and libertarianism]. It corrects a major failure of both -- the tendency to overlook and exclude every aspect of society other than the individual and the state. That not only fails to account for every other actor and agency in civil society... but it also distorts the true nature of individual and state, rendering the first as falsely atomistic and disconnected and the latter as falsely monolithic and removed (capable only of ‘interference’).”

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Tags: catholicism, subsidiarity, mutualism, capitalism, society, agency

Why We Banned Legos - Volume 21 No. 2 - Winter 2006 - Rethinking Schools Online

markpasc — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:40:46 PST

“These children seemed to squirm at the implications of privilege, wealth, and power that ‘giving’ holds. The children denied their power, framing it as benign and neutral, not something actively sought out and maintained. This early conversation helped us see more clearly the children's contradictory thinking about power and authority, laying the groundwork for later exploration.”

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Tags: legos, school, teaching, children, childhood, learning, capitalism, society, mutualism