https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu Social criticism en-us 2020-11-04 01:06:29 UTC 2020-11-05 01:03:01 UTC hello@padlet.com 8034625 https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/888313451 “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.”
― H.L. Mencken

“It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.”
― Alastair Reynolds

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
― Albert Einstein

]]> 2020-11-04 01:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/888313451 8034625 https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/892170793 https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/global

This article details how the Chinese government has restricted freedom, employed mass censorship and also increased surveillance to an obscene amount. It also explains how these restrictions of rights for the citizens of China poses a threat to other countries as well.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/methane/#close

This article explains how the methane from the meat industry can exacerbate the climate crisis in the environment.

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-pollution

This article discusses how plastic in the ocean and other pollution has a massive effect on the world at large.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-nuclear-clean-and-sustainable

This article explains how nuclear energy 
is overlooked in the search for green energy, and why it should be put more into use because of its lack of a carbon footprint, space efficiency, and how nuclear waste can be handled much safer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44234505

This Article explains how North Korea also has numerous severe human rights violations, from just censorship and propaganda to full blown work camps and kidnapping of foreigners.

]]> 2020-11-04 23:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/892170793 8034625 https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/892243349 Why has the American education system not improve much even after massive investment?

Is national security more important than personal privacy?

Should professional sports players be paid so much, when people who are doing arguably more important jobs for society are paid so much less?

Why so do many places invest much more into stadiums rather than things more helpful to their citizens, such as public transit or homeless shelters?

Should the exchange of culture and art be accepted as cultures of different places changing as time does, or should it be seen as modern society wiping out older traditions?]]> 2020-11-05 00:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/892243349 8034625 https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/892264675 This is America by Childish Gambino 
tackles gun violence and police brutality in America.

Quiet by MCILK addresses anorexia and domestic abuse.

Love and War by Brad Paisely criticizes the treatment of veterans in society.

Call to Arms by Strigill Simpson comments on how social media distracts society while politicians can force thousands to die for their interests.

You've Been Cancelled by Dan Bull criticizes how social media leads society to jump to ruining a person's life with little evidence.]]> 2020-11-05 00:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/8034625/xddgkm4wc9ou2cfu/wish/892264675