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Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Contact Us Store. In the s, the Klansmen numbered at least 8 million. In the 50s and 60s, however, the Klansmen experienced another revival in Atlanta.
Morality and Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Thinking. During the s, a man named Stetson Kennedy was born in Atlanta. Kennedy belonged to a long line of Klansmen, dating all the way back to the Reconstruction era.
Yet Kennedy himself was a fervent opponent of racism, and spent much of his adult life collecting the folk tales of African Americans in the South. One way to study the history of the Ku Klux Klan is to look at the number of lynchings in the U. Another striking fact about lynchings in the U.
Levitt and Dubner describe how the KKK murdered black men for decades. One hypothesis for the low number of lynchings each decade is that lynchings were intended to intimidate the black population. The Klansmen wanted to prevent black people from voting, riding the bus, etc. Kennedy began passing Klan passwords along to radio stations. Radio hosts across the country continued repeating Klan passwords, infuriating Klansmen.
Kennedy understood that information is power—once secret information becomes public, the people who controlled the secret information lose much of their power. Another example of the power of information: in the s, life insurance policies became considerably cheaper. The reason for this change was the rise of the Internet. People could now search for a cheaper life insurance policy, whereas in the past, people would sometimes spend an unnecessarily large amount of money on a policy that could have been purchased for a lower price somewhere else.
With the help of online searches, ordinary people could find information on their own instead of trusting in so-called experts who would often give them the wrong information, anyway. Furthermore, Enron executives were trying to keep information as asymmetrical as possible: they wanted to keep stockholders in the dark about the realities of the company.
The business world is full people who abuse their special access to information. During the Enron Scandal, the powerful Enron Corporation, which provided and traded energy, went bankrupt, and tried to defraud stockholders. Enron executives understood the importance of the information they guarded i.
Therefore, they prevented this information from reaching stockholders. Related Quotes with Explanations. In many different walks of life, so-called experts use their monopoly or near-monopoly in information to help themselves and potentially hurt their customers and clients.
For example, an insurance salesman with a near-monopoly on information about the prevalence of heart attacks could create fear in the minds of his customers, and sell lots of overpriced life insurance policies. Consider a textbook example of information asymmetry: selling a house. When a person sells a house, there are two major dangers: 1 setting the price too low and 2 setting the price too high.
The agent scolded K. This is one of the few first-person anecdotes in the book, since, for the most part, the authors seem to prefer to deal with unbiased mathematical analysis. However, the example is important because it shows how, in practice, real estate agents with economic incentives might persuade their clients to act in a certain way.
He chose a comic radio station that children listened to, told the creators all of the KKK's personal information and passwords so that all of the children across the word would know, and the KKK would be humiliated. It's all about info baby and how different groups use it. Joshua Finger. The main theme of the chapter is that groups or klans in this case have knowledge that they keep within each other.
Information that other people don't have or know. So they have advantages of knowing things. What I found interesting is how The KKK started as a harmless group and it evolved to bigger threatening group. The main theme of chapter two was the incredible power of information. By using powerful information in the right way or wrong depending on how you look at it you can expose and ruin a company, corporation, business or anything for that matter that holds a serious importance or power.
Reading about the comparisons between the Ku Klux Klan and real estate agents was truly terrifying. On page 74 it talks about the ten terms real estate agents use in their ads. As an example if you see a billboard or sign with the word "fantastic" on it to describe a house stay away. It is usually code for not a very interesting house that's not really worth it. Just like the Ku Klux Klan they used words that were always code for something else. Information is power and by withdrawing or holding that information you can manipulate and control almost any situation within your power.
Individually from this chapter I gathered that the theme has quite a few possible directions it may be divided into. The theme happens to be a comparison between the Ku Klux Klan and mainly the way our system of dealing with most issues at hand.
Most interesting to me was that in an early section, Kennedy makes a statement that sums the issue all up The writers were against the Klan, all right, but they had precious few inside facts about it.
The power of words, the power of education, and the power of numbers. The theme of this chapter was that information or the use of information can be used as a weapon in a number of ways.
Information can be used to lower or raise prices of insurance or houses. It can be used to bring down a racist organization. Information can be altered to get a date online. The use of information is incredibly powerful in our society. There were a lot of interesting facts in this chapter. I think it's interesting that people remember lynching as an awful everyday experience in the South but in reality lynching were very rare. I also think that super man being part of the end of the KKK is hilarious!
Also, all the specific words that a real-estate agents use when selling a house is interesting to me- I'll definitely look for those if I ever buy a house.
They lie about how they look and who they are actually willing to date- like seriously? I LOVE this book! Please write a thoughtful response the following prompts. Anonymous September 20, at AM. Jesse K September 20, at AM.
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