Tuesday, July 19, 2011

From Notes To Thesis: Assignment Two

104 – monopoly on violence ends because states end :

Regional values / regional enforcement of crimes

Keyword: community protection

122 – potential for demographic competition : group competition rivalry (US & THEM)…

Gift economy – equality

128 – reptilian brain – fight or flight…
Help determine future actions

Life will be different after fossil fuels become expensive. I believe that some of the most important aspects of the future will revolve around community protection, a gift economy, and a new reliance on the reptilian brain for everyday survival.

The chapter “Overshoot” from the text Limits to Growth sheds some light on how we’re going to transition from a cheap to expensive fossil fuel economy.

[claim: a sentence that also makes an argument AND acts as a topic sentence for the paragraph]. Community protection will be an important part of the future.

In the future, a gift economy will replace the current market economy. Part of this replacement will involve changes in government. …

Even though the reptilian brain perhaps got us into the mess we’re in, in the future it will help us survive.

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