Culture and Tradition - revision
USA and slavery
1492 - Columbus gets to America
1619 - James Town, VA - White Lion (dutch vessel) comes with 20 africans and trades for them
- Indentured servants - ~7 year contract
- Slaves - for life.
1620 - Slavery legalized
1660 - King Charles creates Royal African Company, trading black gold
1799 - End of French Revolution
1807 - Britain outlaws slavery
1860 - Around 1mil of slaves traded
Slave types
Buck - strongest
Prime hand - field worker
Breeding Wench - breeding
Fancy girls - master entertainment
1861-1865 - Civil War
1865-1877 - Reconstruction of the south (freeing slaves)
Civil War
North (Union)
Abraham Lincoln - president of the US
Ulysses Grant - general
Sherman - general
South (Confederation)
Jefferson Davis - president of the Confederation
Lee - general
Jackson - general
Civil Rights
Papers and laws
Emancipation proclamation (Jan 1, 1863) - all slaves of south are free and can join the Union (north) army
Three-Fifths compromise - Slaves are counted as ⅗ of a person for population count
Jim Crow laws - racial segregation laws (until 1960). Separation of schools, transport, restaurants. Separate but equal
People
Henry Thoreau (Walden) - transcendentalist (unity with nature)
Emmett Till - boy whistled at a white woman, tortured and killed by her brothers. Mamie Till put photo of open casket in press.
Ruby Bridges - first black child in 'normal' school
Rosa Parks - bus ride. Didn't move for a white man, arrested. Non-violent disobedience
Thurgood Marshall - black lawyer, won 29 cases. First black Supreme Court judge.
Martin Luther King Jr. - "I have a dream". Religious. Father of CRM
Malcolm X - islamic churches. Wasn't violent but said threatening stuff
Media
5 filters of media
- Ownership - profit first, truth second
- Advertising - YOU are the product
- Elite - the "Truth" comes from few groups - govenrmnents, experts
- Flak - organized groups criticize media, need for self-censorship
- Dominant ideology - sets good and bad (anti-communist, pro-security)
Astroturf methods
Creating fake 'grassroots', groups, labeling - ex. "Moms against ..."
Funded by actor with cause
Bot networks, sockpuppet accounts, paid influencers, promotions, review manipulation, fake surveys
Reason - people trust peer opinion more, so lets fake it
Charged language
Name calling - nazi, supremacy
Catch-phrases - 9/10 recommend, ask your doctor
Orwell 1984 - censorship, burning books, information depravation
Huxley Brave new world - conditioning, sea of irrelevance
Drugs
Substances having physiological effect on body
Types
- Stimulants - Meth, Cocaine, Nicotine
- Depressants - Fentanyl, Ketamine, Marihuana
- Psychadelics - LSD, psylocybin, DMT
Addiction types
- Physical - body deteriorates by craving (ex. alcohol)
- Mental - only feels good when under substance (ex. weed)
Marihuana
1920's - grown as cash crop (used for other purposes)
1937 - made illegal
2010 - decriminalized in Colorado
2012 - legalized in Washington
California is the 'turnover' state
Government
Forms of government
- Monarchy (dictatorship) - power of one
- Oligarchy - power of few
- Republic - power of the Law
- Democracy - power of the majority
- Anarchy - power of none
Branches of US government
Executive - president (4 year turn)
Legislative - Congress
Senate - 100 people (2 per state)
House of Representatives - 435 people
Judicative - courts
Supreme Court - 9 judges
Courts of Appeals
District Courts