{"id":13355,"date":"2015-03-24T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-might-this-situation-be-remedied-the-depth-of\/"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:22:40","slug":"how-might-this-situation-be-remedied-the-depth-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-might-this-situation-be-remedied-the-depth-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How might this situation be remedied? The depth of the problem, of the blindness of our ethos, may be seen in the fact that Governor Scott seems unaware that the actual economy of Florida has much less to do with STEM disciplines than it does with what I call the H\u2019MMM disciplines. Florida\u2019s economy has everything to do with Entertainment, Disney of course, but tourism and related leisure industries in general. The H\u2019MMM disciplines include Movies, Music, Media. We could appropriate the classic slogan for Campbell\u2019s soup to promote these disciplines: \u201cMmm mmm good!\u201d modified into the interjection \u201cH\u2019mmm,\u201d by addition of the Humanities, suggesting some perplexity or thoughtfulness about the nature of the popular arts. By most accounts the last area of true American dominance in the global economy is associated with Hollywood, and entertainment products in general. The blindness of the ethos is apparent here as well, beginning with the problem of piracy. There is a serious trade imbalance with China, in part due to piracy, the difficulty of enforcing copyright and the ease with which H\u2019MMM products may be stolen. Imagine what would happen if Walmart refused to pay Chinese factories for the warehouses full of manufactured goods that it imports. Yet Americans show a similar attitude. They are willing to stand in line to pay $500 for an iPad (a STEM device), but they expect the H\u2019MMM content to be free. I am using the term \u201cblindness,\u201d alluding to a feature central to Greek tragedy, At\u00e9, translated as \u201cblindness\u201d for an individual, and \u201ccalamity\u201d for a community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2012\/10\/04\/features\/the-editors\/teaching-in-the-margins-gregory-l-ulmer\/\">Teaching in the Margins: Gregory L. Ulmer\u00a0|\u00a0Full Stop<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How might this situation be remedied? The depth of the problem, of the blindness of our ethos, may be seen in the fact that Governor Scott seems unaware that the actual economy of Florida has much less to do with STEM disciplines than it does with what I call the H\u2019MMM disciplines. Florida\u2019s economy has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}