we now consider the powerful aspects of collective unconsciousness in the formation of judgements and opinions with respect to ourselves and others.
it is highly unlikely that if we were put in a position to state or evaluate our position in terms of racial, gender, ageist ethics and equality, that we would consider ourselves unfair. i have always thought of myself as an
ethically minded person that views all people as being of equal value and worth in the greater society...or at least, i think that i am. well, at least as long as i am in a situation where i do not feel outnumbered or threatened or anxious....perhaps, it is in these situations that my conditioned responses come out as biases, in these moments i have a glimpse of my mind and begin to know it a little better.
through harvard university, a team of therapists and psychologists developed a method that measures our conscious-unconscious reactions to specific stimuli, thereby allowing us to know our minds better. these methods are called the Implicit Association Tests and attempt to measure and calculate just that: our implicit responses to stimuli that form conditioned associations or a codebreaker to the unconscious?
please refer to the Harvard Implicit Association Test website: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/ and go to the demonstration tests, there will be 15, please choose 10 to take..take each one twice to compare your results. i hope that you are surprised by your findings and good luck.
also, i hope you enjoy the first of our featured artists for the section: antony hegarty. please refer to his interview on fresh air
with terry gross. the download or listen is available at:www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyld=100162285
happy listening and learning.
time checking into. If her work looks familiar, it is no wonder, she designs a few products and lines that end up in IKEA and are featured regularly in magazines that appreciate interesting lines and inventive design.
insight into pack mentality...and approach the conversation as a consumer of mass culture, having an awareness, at least somewhat, of culture and commonplace and normative behavior within groups. A group, one that may have the makings of a small enclave of like minded people brought together by work or play, is essentially the
makings of a larger cosm and eventually a subculture.... as more participants declare allegiance to the subculture, the essential qualities and components that brought a core group together become slightly watered down. So, you have a large group of people that really no longer know why they are aligned, but they have accepted certain rules about their appearance, habi
ts, hobbies, and conversation basis. It is a safe zone by which allegiance to a loosely fitting ideal becomes a newer, larger (sub)culture, then a mass culture. And mass culture acceptance becomes a tool by which to communicate with enormous amounts of people, a sales tool in many cases, a simple way to identify your target market, a trend. Trends have a lot of velocity. So, and you can probably see where this conversation is going, the microcosm becomes that macrocosm and the result is a very large cross-section of people having similar desires in respect to goods and services. It is a lovely grand schemata for business. Why do we allow this to happen? And how does our ambivalence and acceptance contribute to a greater cultural shift? 
