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JoeyMampillyFirstPaper 3 - 03 May 2025 - Main.EbenMoglen
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< | It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | The Solution to Indifference in the Surveillance Era | | | What politicians understood back in the 1880s, and have since forgotten, is that getting people to vote requires machinery, not ideology. For someone looking to change the way things work, their attention should turn to structures instead of people. Sometimes changing structures involves mass mobilization, but only in an ancillary way. The execution of a policy will almost always be shaped by a small number of people. That an inherently conservative institution, 9 life-tenured justices confirmed by senators who are elected every six years, ended up being the face of some useful digital reform, shows that nothing is predetermined. History depends as much on contingencies as it does on grand social forces. One looking to make change must simply focus on the right places. | |
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Making this better involves basic editorial rebalancing: less wind-up, more pitch. You spend too much space setting up the premise. Okay, indifference is your subject. You can say that quickly and get to the question the insight demands: how do we connect people to their mental and political lives more actively? Treating this as a subject of sociobiology, the human brain unchanged since the Ice Age, is also superficial but not analytically appealing. The human mind has done some serious evolving in the last 2,000 generations, actually. Had it not, would the Ice Age brain be doig well driving automobiles at 70mph, or playing the piano, or writing Tolstoy's novels, I wonder?
We evolve human minds all the time, including in this so-called law school. How human beings think and what they think about are plastic, which is precisely why we would want to think so carefully about what happens when we change the nervous system of society. Stripping out the preparations and going straight for the matter of the question, what are we trying to achieve by new educational departures and how should they work, will take your thinking where you want it to go.
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