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Quadratic irrational (numbers that never resolve like π) equations are rooted in complex numbers (which are both real and imaginary). This means that there are an infinite number of iterations possible. This produces an infinite number of patterns that seem to have some similarity. π = 3.14159265
Colors in fractals change as the formula moves away from 0 at a faster rate. -22 = -2 x -2 = 4 -23 = -2 x -2 x -2 = -8 -24 = -2 x -2 x -2 x -2 = 16 -25 = -2 x -2 x -2 x -2 x -2 = -32 Etc.
√2 = 1.414 √1.414 = 1.189 √1.189 = 1.091 Etc.
Communication and Theatre 4/516 Communication and Leadership Materialism as a Form of Critical Theory
Point #1: the physical, the social and the individual are interdependent.
This means that we are dependent upon nature and society for survival.
At the same time humans form and transform their environment.
Thus, materialism privileges the society over the individual, but is dependent upon embodied individuals to be enacted. “Guns don’t kill, people do.”
Televisions don’t “do” anything. • Must be turned on. • Programs must be created. • Viewers must choose whether/what to watch, etc. • Thus, the dynamic interaction between technology and social norms enables and limits what is communicated.
Point #2: Ideas are “real” only in their material expression.
Illustrations: • A lie: the world is flat. • A novel: the physical object only. • A government: the behaviors of the involved.
Dialectic = the tension among “what has been,” “what is” and “what could be.”
How can “cool” be “hot?” How can “bad” be “good?”
Point #3: Leadership tends to be used more for control than emergent creativity.
Leaders tend to privilege receiving over action and create subordinants more as “respondents” than “agents.” This limits opportunity for more democratic uses of leadership. Otherwise put: power is used more for control than participation.
Example: in 2004 the Secretary of Education labeled the National Education Association as a terrorist organization. This label was used because the NEA opposed federal education initiatives (no child left behind). The NEA is an organization of 400k public and private school teachers.
What is a “free marketplace of ideas?” Again, Deetz has told us that citizens have become consumers. One outcome of this is that democracy becomes popularity in the marketplace.
Illustration: Madonna: “I am a material girl living in a material world.”
Public information, public interest, and cooperative citizen action receive little attention in a context of new products that promise personal freedom and exciting cultural experiences.
Consider the following: • Text messaging • Youtube • Myspace • Attending a city council meeting • Contributing $$ and working for change • Running for office
Another illustration: In 1934 the Federal Communication Commission issued regulations that granted exclusive licenses to commercial organizations to broadcast to the masses. How is the BBC different?
RCA, NBC and CBS also influenced the FCC to require that radios be built as receiver-only technology. Implications?
Conclusion: What all of the previous leads up to is that materially (really) there are rulers and the ruled. The powerful decide what gets communicated and who must listen.
For example: how might the USA have a two-headed one party system? How does this political system “stage” nonissue campaigns?
Finally, as part of the economic, educated elite you will tend to become more powerful. I hope you do better than this guy.
One possibility is “give permission” for alternative narratives to gain voice.
When doing so you are leading in the direction of emergent social change(justice).
