Category: Essay
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Democracy and Majority Rules
Most people might agree that there are plenty of benefits to having a say in how things are run, but the same people may also tell you there are limits to how much say individuals should have. Americans love the principles of democracy, but they question its role in the workplace-namely when it comes to…
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Expert Consensus
Yes, the internet is an amazing tool, but now we face an endemic of self-appointed experts. It allows people to say crazy, unsubstantiated things, but is it better to “say” and embarrass yourself, or to have never “said” anything at all? One of the main ways messages were spread before the advent of the internet…
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Reframing Art
One of the worst things that’s happened to artists is commodification. Artists are conditioned to see their work as products for marketing and consumption, but who could blame them? Even though people enjoy art enough to spend money on it, making a living from making art is difficult. Artists treat their art like a business…
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The Social Media Paradox
The internet can do for us what the printing press did for the protestant reformation: we can learn to communicate, work together and solve problems that affect our communities, especially problems that relate to power. So why hasn’t it? Why is it that even with a technology as equalizing and revolutionary as the internet, does…