American Ethos and Culture by https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137 How do American Media and Culture affect our decisions about how we take care of our health and communities? en-us 2022-07-13 22:19:23 UTC 2022-07-13 23:54:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Thesis Statement: Your neighbors' needs need to be yours in turn. We cannot survive in a paradigm of individualist success. lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242872288 2022-07-13 22:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242872288 Main Topic: Where does the commonly accepted definition of an Ideal American Family come from? What is success? lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242875913 2022-07-13 22:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242875913 Main Topic: Why doesn't the Nuclear Family structure work? lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242876142 2022-07-13 22:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242876142 Does not actually represent how the majority of Americans live, based on an economic boom that will never return lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242876593 2022-07-13 22:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242876593 Enables and reinforces unhealthy dynamics lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242877079 1: There is no way Mom and Pop can adequately take care of all of a child's needs, let alone their own.
2: Individuals cannot adequately be a secretary, a cook, a maid, etc. (further develop this idea: just how many things do YOU have to do, day to day? how many of them are YOU good at because you've had the privilege to develop them? how many of them do YOU struggle with that you have experienced stigma due to?
3: Everyone is burnt out! Our success stories hinge on "great" individuals who sacrificed practically everything. Sacrifice and restriction is an unhealthy paradigm that does not build positive change.]]> 2022-07-13 22:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242877079 Main Topic: Why can't basic necessities be handled for-profit? lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242877556 2022-07-13 22:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242877556 Collectively addressing needs is the foundation of community lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242878936 1: Conversely, making our individual needs obscure sabotages the community at the root
2: Recognizing mutual interest is essential to mutual aid.
3: It is expensive and inefficient to have everyone maintain, say, a washer and dryer rather than collectively using and administrating a laundromat. ]]> 2022-07-13 22:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242878936 Main Topic: In what ways do household systems reflect economic systems? In what ways are Just-in-time systems fragile? lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242879911 2022-07-13 22:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242879911 Ethics of personal success, determination, and responsibility lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242883620 2022-07-13 23:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242883620 Economic and legislative incentives and punishments lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242883755 1: Suburban development around industrial centers (related to "why can't basic necessities be handled for-profit?" - the design of for profit systems perpetuates boom-and-bust cycles around these industrial centers)]]> 2022-07-13 23:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242883755 Source: Where does the Nuclear Family Come From? -Bainbridge, Danielle lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242885403 "PSAs and How-To videos broadcast across the country were specifically designed to teach families how to behave appropriately and what to do if they were going to achieve this stylized ideal. But, these realities were marked heavily by divisions of class and race, as the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was occurring simultaneously." (Bainbridge 5:04)

"According to the US Census Bureau in 2012 sixty-six percent of households were family households down from eighty-one percent in 1970 and in those same years, married couples with children 18 dropped from 40 percent to 20 percent. Black and Latino children were more likely to live in single-parent households, and households with only one person jumped from 17 percent to 27 percent." (Bainbridge 5:48)]]> 2022-07-13 23:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242885403 Source: Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske "The Nuclear/Nuclear Family: Moralities of Intimacy under COVID-19" lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242894570 2022-07-13 23:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242894570 Not only is the "demand" side of the economic equation unpredictable, but the "supply" side is also inherently wasteful due to excessive concentration and specialization lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242897816 1: Biomass lost before harvest accounts for 80% of all agricultural losses (Alexander 193)
2: You must outproduce your competitors. If you outproduce, you must limit access to your goods and services in order to keep them profitable. (this economic metaphor can probably be carried further but i'm tired and have to think about it a bit more)]]> 2022-07-13 23:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242897816 Main Topic: What options do we have to challenge this paradigm? My argument is mutual aid, so in what ways is mutual aid fragile? lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242898106 2022-07-13 23:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242898106 Source: Alexander, Peter et al. “Losses, inefficiencies and waste in the global food system” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242898481 2022-07-13 23:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242898481 Source: Bradley, Lucy “Research and Benefits of Community Gardens” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242898793 2022-07-13 23:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242898793 Miranda, Dana, “Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242901885 2022-07-13 23:48:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242901885 Source: Meadows, Donella H.. Thinking in Systems: A Primer lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242902166 1: What is a system?
2: What is a household's system? What is an economy's system?]]> 2022-07-13 23:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242902166 Source: Lewis, Helen, “How Panic-Buying Revealed the Problem With the Modern World” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242902977 2022-07-13 23:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242902977 Source: Yaffe-Bellany, David and Michael Corkery, “Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242903187 2022-07-13 23:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242903187 Source: User “u/namesrue”, “Big Tuna and the inherent inefficiency of the capitalist mode of production” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242903565 2022-07-13 23:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242903565 Source: McKevvit, Fraser, “Accidental stockpilers driving shelf shortages” lamb_of_dog https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242904679 2022-07-13 23:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lamb_of_dog/8ne47b6qop3zt137/wish/2242904679