• Human Nature
  •  how our survival instincts will affect how we react to certain situations
    • power--man seeks power
    •        leads to corruption--goes back to human nature
    • leads to manipulation and controlling people
    •        get oil not necessarily country's unity
    •             secrecy and betrayal
• its a simulation--human nature shouldn't be on top
  •  we are going to be analytical here
• power on top-> motivation to get power, money in government
  • if you have power, you have money which gives you the power to define your own fate
• bad things-> greed, oppression are used as mechanisms to keep the peace
  •     not everyone was happy, but it worked
• power is human nature
  • oppression is a way to get power
• peace doesn't really mean happiness
• people want power peace and equality: but there cannot be an equal balance
• balance of power is impossible
• motivation to get power isn't a primal urge, but the want to make decisions and be involved.  human nature isn't involved because it changes with society.  society doesn't always tell you that you need power.
  • if you have power you can lose it, if you don't you can gain it
• no matter where we are, we always want a say in thing s and be more prominent than the average Joe
• if you have power you have more control over your life : safety
  •    power = human nature

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• would you rather be a person in power who everyone depends on, or the one that doesn't have the burden of power?
• Human nature: hunger, aggression and the need for rationality and order
  • when idea was formed: the idea was tribe like and about surviving and getting by
• who lives a better life? the president or the garbage man 
• we are taking research and things that happened in the past, and we see patterns
  • why do these patterns continue if it doesn't have to do with human nature?
• people pay more attention to the deaths of the powerful, not so much the little people
• putting yourself in power puts yourself in danger--> human nature is the defining theme
• Cuborica- Will isn't driven by human nature

WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE??!?!?!?!?!

• power is human nature....equality will never exist--> we want power, but you don't want to give up your power
• you are defining human nature as how your trying to survive, instead of instincts that humans all have
• human nature and power are both in the simulation
• No one wants to have no power... and no one wants to be oppressed...but being on top is hard too (frustrating)
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Katherine's Notes

February 7, 2007

Collaborative Notes - Group Discussion

-Human nature à what our survival instincts dictate our reactions

-Power / governing à corruption

            human nature to seek power to further self

LEADS TO Corruption

-manipulation and controlling people

CUBORICA trying to get oil v stabilization

Lead to secrecy and betrayal. 

            NOT human nature à just as stimulation than it is more analytical thus power at top and motivation altered à

Human nature à survival

Exist without power than less to lose

                        à power not essential

Human nature à hunger and aggression

            Need for rational and structure

Only power was leader based on physical strength

            Surviving and getting by.

Cuborica not driven by human nature to do what they do

Still strongest and fittest in power just different form

Human nature à how surviving v. what they do

            Cuborica à actions and responses and how we deal as people in the stimulation

Powerà no one wants to not have power.

Oppression and revolt pattern à result of human nature /  makes up human nature

Why do these patterns occur?

Power à influence à decide own faith

 à class difference and money are brought on by power

POWER IS HUMAN NATURE

            Cyclical action

Beneath human nature is power

Greed and oppression are underlying sub genres of the tqo

Relationship between

            Greed

            Oppression

Mechanisms to maintain power and peace

Balanced prior to conflict, not everyone happy but was a working community

Peace doesn’t equal happiness

True equality hard ot achieve because of human nature want for power

There will always be somewhat oppressed

Balance of power is impossible

            If balance of power than there is a contradiction because everyone is equal

Motivation to get power à hunger to make decision and have influence

Human nature changes with society

            à society is told listren to the personin power … listen and adapt

Primal Urge à domination

Money from or not à advantage

Always have wants, want to be more prominent

The more you have a say the more you have control and thus feel safer

Human nature à makes you want to have a say and want to control things. 

Rather in power v. common person

Burden of power à have to help others as long as themselves

WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE? DEFINE

-human nature is power

            therefore someone is always oppressed

Power is human nature

Will

Mikey

Kelly

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Will

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Joanna

Rachael

Julie

Will

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