Mixmaster Blog on Earth Democracy

Here, we will grow an initial response to the text. We all will speak to the intro, and to the chapter our respective group, or "band," has chosen to tackle first. Then, each band will tackle one chapter. Teach the other groups what your chapter is all about. What's her thesis? What's her strategy? Ethos, logos, pathos? Does she define her terms? How does the argument make you feel? What, if anything, resonates with your daily life? Feel free to pick apart the arguments you find--distinguish premises from conclusions, analyze the claims you find in the text.

Ok, so, as you compose your Earth Democracy blogs, be sure to weave them into the thread that will grow, below, by responding both to the text and to what your peers are saying about the text, too.

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I was not a big fan of the intro to Earth Democracy. The lady was a bit too far left for me to take her seriously. She made a few claims, such as on page 3 "...terrorism, extremism, ethnic cleansing, and religious intolerance are unnatural conditions caused by globilization and have no place in Earth Democracy.", I think that's an incredibly ridiculous statement just based on the fact that humans have been participating in ethnic cleasing for centuries. Religious intolerance such as the persecution of jewish people has been going on for thousands and thousands of years. I will say that i do understand that she is from an area of the world that is being exploited for it's cheaper labor and less strict environmental laws but it's still a bit to liberal for me. I like to take middle ground in my political thoughts, sometimes I lean more to the left but this lady is at the end of the spectrum and I have a hard time taking it very seriously or accepting her point because I feel if i sat down to have a conversation with her, there would be no wiggle room. Almost as if she was a Bill O'Reily to the liberals. Also, without globilization, she would have never had any of us reading her book because there would be no way to get her message out, so globilization is actually helping people hear what she has to say.

-Dylan