Well, after watching the Story of Stuff, I thought it was interesting and powerful, but still somewhat extreme. Annie Leonard showed clear distrust towards the government and corporations. She raised interesting viewpoints, about how the government were "making" us to shop, how our-or United State's, whichever-economy works. But still far from being objective. What kept me listening to her was her statistics. That made her persuasive, that backed up her opinion. After watching Dobb's critique, however, I saw that the statistics were wrong. Misinterpretations of some numbers are not always the problem, but it is when an argument is very much dependent and supported by it. Of course, Dobb also rebutted very unimportant mistakes, like president Bush also said to grieve and to pray. But Dobb seemed to correct the video from going biased. Well, but he too wasn't exactly in the center. For example, "the rest of the world can live because the US consumes 30 percent of the world's resources"? That's a cowardly excuse. The companies are collecting resources because they want to get rich, not to donate to people who live there. In conclusion, even if I agree of Leonard on the idea(not the video, since now I watched the critique), this shouldn't be shown in school, at least elementry schools.
Okay, and here's my three motions.
1. THB schools should only teach evolution, not creation in biology class.
2. THB the government should include communism and socialism in education, with great detail.
3. THB teachers do not have the freedom of speech when they are teaching to young students who are prone to influence.
