Readings (Please read the following 3 texts before writing the paper):
– Anand Giridharadas, The Critic and the Thought Leader, from Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018)
– Naomi Klein, Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet, from This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014)
– David Treuer, Digital Indians: 1990-2018, from The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (2019)
In your first analytic essay, you used Anand Giridharadass The Critic and the Thought Leader and Naomi Kleins Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet to discuss whether or not it was possible for individuals to enact societal change in a world governed by profit-seeking logic. When looking at the big picture, both Giridharadas and Klein seem to be pessimistic about how efforts for real societal change will clash directly with our reigning economic orthodoxy at every level (Klein 228). In Digital Indians, David Treuer brings out stories of individual Native Americans working to make change at the grassroots level, and focuses on the cultural and economic progress that the Native American community has made over the past thirty years. He challenges the reader to take a different view of societal change, arguing that when we situate ourselves in a position of powerlessness, we make ourselves subaltern. Not only that: we absolve ourselves of our complicity in how the world of power around us has been shaped (439).
Prompt:
For essay #2, utilize ideas, terms, and quotes from Klein, Giridharadas, and Treuers essays to address the following question:
How are we as individuals complicit (or not) in the world of power around us”, and to what extent are we responsible for enacting change?
Questions to get you started:
How does Treuers focus on grassroots organizations and community challenge Klein and Giridharadass big picture understanding of society?
What does it mean to be complicit in how the world of power around us has been shaped?
Use these questions to focus your thoughts and generate ideas as you work to answer the central question of the prompt.
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