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...only reservation I have about participating in studies is that they frequently enlighten me to my ineptness—in a test where I made $38, I did the math incorrectly and gave my partner six dollars more than I should have. The time I got money for negotiating, I would have gotten more if only I have been better at getting my way. The time I listened to an artificial language for a half-hour without being able to understand any of it? My self-esteem took a hit with that...
...moral ills on campus. The argument goes that if only students felt at home in a campus-wide or house-based social group, they would cease to be workaholic/alcoholic wrecks, and become happy social creatures. Such an environment, so they say, would draw the geeks out of their shells, enlighten the rich kids, integrate the internationals, and most importantly, broaden everyone’s horizons. Advocates propose various methods of establishing this social Eden, including more administration social planning (usually via the house system), scrapping the blocking system, and increasing house dining hall restrictions—anything to get students...
...crime in their sprawling exurbs—need leaders and products that make them feel safe. A candidate’s party affiliation or his opinions are less important to this lonely American society than his ability to make individuals feel familiar and secure. This book can greatly enlighten those shocked by John F. Kerry’s 2004 defeat, as it gives a fascinating in-depth look at the tactics of the Bush campaign to target new voters. “LifeTargeting” mines consumer data (purchased from credit card companies) to pair with voter lists, creating...
...Golden Age of the '30s and '40s, the industry was often accused of escapism. And certainly the films in Hollywood's war effort portrayed the conflict in terms and tones that would comfort as much as enlighten the audience. A neutral eye might see them as propaganda. But there was no neutrality in movie theaters. So the Germans were painted as sadistic dandies, the Japanese as deranged barbarians. And the American GIs, in a platoon of varied ethnicities (all white - this was before the integration of the Army), were steely men of purpose, risking their lives, sometimes dying, to defend...
...incendiary documentaries. The most notable nonfiction political film was An Inconvenient Truth, starring Al Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and near-President. Essentially a slide show on the looming disaster of climate change, the movie is like its front man: both committed and muted, hoping to enlighten as much as arouse. And since the film was shown out of competition, it could not capture the Palme d'Or and bask in the resulting limelight. Poor Gore: again the noble nonwinner. There were no Molotov cocktails in the handful of Cannes fiction films with political undertones. Not that...