Everyone gets a puppy
Essay question regarding Occupy Denver (200 words or less): If Occupy Denver were a success, what would this look like?
Answer (my vision of immediate utopia): We'd have an informed and engaged citizenry, rather than the ignorant, alienated voters we have now. People would want to understand concepts such as "cumulative advantage," "liquidity trap," "IS-LM curves," and the like (not all of which I understand, btw). Economic and social structure would be a matter of experiment and at least partial choice rather than "this is the way things are" (and no, I don't know what this looks like). The power of Big Money could be checked and countered from within and without government (I don't know what this looks like either, but I doubt that "No More Bailouts" and "End The Fed" are wise or get us there, though I don't know, being ignorant and alienated myself). People's ideas wouldn't always match their hairstyle. Everyone who wants one gets a puppy, but you have to take care of it. People who sing "We Shall Overcome" would develop better rhythm, or would respond to police action with a livelier song, such as "Hold It Against Me." Not only would HyunA have raps and dubstep breaks, which she already has, but dubstep producers would also sample HyunA.
[Someone at the Tuesday 7 PM GA asked us to answer this question (though I don't remember his exact wording) and to bring him the answers at the next GA, which I had to miss. He said something about providing a place to answer on the Facebook page as well, or the Webpage, though I haven't seen it at either site. So I'm posting it here.]
Answer (my vision of immediate utopia): We'd have an informed and engaged citizenry, rather than the ignorant, alienated voters we have now. People would want to understand concepts such as "cumulative advantage," "liquidity trap," "IS-LM curves," and the like (not all of which I understand, btw). Economic and social structure would be a matter of experiment and at least partial choice rather than "this is the way things are" (and no, I don't know what this looks like). The power of Big Money could be checked and countered from within and without government (I don't know what this looks like either, but I doubt that "No More Bailouts" and "End The Fed" are wise or get us there, though I don't know, being ignorant and alienated myself). People's ideas wouldn't always match their hairstyle. Everyone who wants one gets a puppy, but you have to take care of it. People who sing "We Shall Overcome" would develop better rhythm, or would respond to police action with a livelier song, such as "Hold It Against Me." Not only would HyunA have raps and dubstep breaks, which she already has, but dubstep producers would also sample HyunA.
[Someone at the Tuesday 7 PM GA asked us to answer this question (though I don't remember his exact wording) and to bring him the answers at the next GA, which I had to miss. He said something about providing a place to answer on the Facebook page as well, or the Webpage, though I haven't seen it at either site. So I'm posting it here.]