Tag: self-selection
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Power and self-selection
He who is active in politics strives for power either as a means in serving other aims, ideal or egoistic, or as ‘power for power’s sake,’ that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives. —Max Weber The “crisis of our times” is that those driven by ideals and those driven by ‘power…
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Activists in Google’s N-gram viewer
I learned about Google’s N-gram viewer from reading Eli Pariser’s book The Filter Bubble. The tool queries a “database spanning the entire contents of over five hundred years’ worth of books — 5.2 million books in total… [Pariser].” So you can see how often different phrases have been used in print, over many years. I…
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Your relentless political Facebook posts…
Haha. For more on this topic, read: Activists Caught in the Filter Bubble.
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What’s wrong with activism?
Originally published at BeyondtheChoir.org. Over the years I have often been asked how I became an activist. The question of how individuals as individuals become involved in social change movements, fascinating as it may seem, can carry equally fascinating assumptions about activism itself. It may imply a voluntary and self-selecting enterprise, an extracurricular activity, a…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 