Big Government Energy
This word describes when powerful groups prevent new ideas or discoveries from spreading.
What is suppression/censorship
These corporations dictate fashion trends and personal identity, shaping consumer culture today.
What is Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Adidas, Zara, Prada, etc?
What is one effect of suppression through social media?
Limits diverse standpoints, silences minorities, changes public opinion through visibility, threatens 1st amendment, etc.
Bertolt Brecht believed in this system of governance.
What is Marxism or Communism
Galileo’s telescope helped him discover four moons orbiting this planet.
What is Jupiter?
(100 more points if you can name 2 of them)
Governments sometimes suppress renewable energy technologies because of their ties to this traditional sector.
What is Fossil Fuels/Oil/Gas
These corporations use many different algorithms to determine and even limit what everybody sees online.
What is Google, Amazon Services, YouTube, etc?
What are social media algorithms?
It is when the platform chooses which posts to show more and which to hide.
Bertolt Brecht originally made Life of Galileo in this format.
What is Theatre or Play?
In both history and the play, Galileo’s ideas threatened the Church because they undermined this worldview.
What is Anthropocentrism or Geocentrism?
This country's government banned private encryption research for years, claiming it was equivalent to “military weapons.”
What is The United States
These corporations influence global economics through investment strategies, lobbying, and even occasionally falsifying research.
What is Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Vanguard, Well Fargo, etc?
What are filter bubbles?
Algorithms that reinforce selected posts but hide other posts, creating a type of “bubble,” where people can only see those posts.
Bertolt Brecht wrote Life of Galileo in this nation.
What is Denmark?
Virginia’s devotion to the Church contrasts with Galileo’s scientific pursuit, symbolizing this broader struggle.
What is tradition vs progress?