Pols 3301 exam 2

• 1984


  Surveillance, control, propaganda, children spies, Father
• A modern utopia


  The samurai
• Player Piano


  Divided classes, secret society infiltration
• Fahrenheit 451


  Burning art, redemptive woman
• The Matrix


  Characters and similar scenes
• After WWIII, survivors knew mankind wouldn't last a fourth
• Creation of the Tetragrammaton cleric, meant to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man: his ability to feel
• Purging emotion


  • Destruction of anything that night evoke feeling
  • Views of nature
  • Mona lisa
  • Yeats poetry volume
  • Beethoven's music
  • Withheld book
• Suppressing emotion


  • The purpose of prozium: The great nepenthe
  • No emotion and no war
• Prozium


  Prozac?
• Costs of prozium


  • Joy, excitement, delight, desire, love, etc: GONE
• No emotion and war


  Or both emotion and war
• Contradictions of emotion


  • Dreams
  • Trust, partnerships
  • Ambition
  • Intuition
  • Outbursts/exasperation
• The equilibrium center is the production center for prozium intervals
• Equilibrium


  Designed to keep humans at a resting point between emotions in either direction for pure rationality: GAME THEORY
• Gun kata


  • Clerics' martial arts training explicitly implies expected utility
  • Actually based on big dates and statistically projected trajectories
• Logic


  Empirics
• Strategic behavior


  Tactical prowess
• Rational choice theory


  • A heuristic that assumes that whatever one does, it must be for a reason that case be derived by logic
  • Intentionally oversimplified
• Applications of rational choice theory

  • Formal/game theory
  • Bargaining models
  • Selectorate theory
  • Principle-agent theory
• Assumptions of rational choice theory

  • Rationality
  • Preference orderings
  • Actors behave strategically (experimental learning or simulated introspection/probabilistic cost-benefit calculus leading to expected utility)
• Game theory


  • Cooperative and non-cooperative
  • Players
  • Strategies: dominant, pure, mixed
  • Sequences: single-shot or repeated, simultaneous or sequential
  • Information environments: (in)complete, (im)perfect
  • Risk attitudes: averse, neutral, acceptant
  • Payoffs
  • Equilibria: resting points in strategic interactions
• The way Preston wins is by destroying the origins of the propaganda proliferation machine