Dr. Tabakian’s Political Science 1 US Government – Summer 2014

Power Point # 18

COURSE LECTURE TOPICS

Today’s Lecture Covers The Following: • Development Of The Elite Consensus • Rise of the Counter Elites

• Past, Present, And Future • Primary Goal Of Elites • Legitimacy • Economies of Scale • Discussion: Look Into The Crystal Ball

• Six Future Campaign Issues That Will Blow Your Mind!

THE ELITE CONSENSUS

• Liberty • Pursuit Of Happiness • Limited Government

• ELITES ARGUE OVER THE MEANS TO

ACHIEVE THESE GOALS (ENDS)!

PRIMARY GOAL OF ELITES

Elites Strive To Maintain And/Or Enhance Their Positions Of Power!

ECONOMIES OF SCALE

• LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS • Infrastructure • Human Capital • Resource Acquisition

• SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS

• Tax Cuts (sometimes) • Pandering • Graft

ISSUES TODAY – MARIJUANA

ISSUES TODAY – RACISM

ISSUES TODAY – GAY MARRIAGE

SOCIETAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR

• You may think you are very tolerant today.

• Imagine society 100

years into the future. • Your, great, great, great

grandchildren may think you are intolerant.

• What future issues do you

foresee?

CRYSTAL BALL

ISSUE #1 - THE RIGHT TO LIVE

NEVER HAVING TO DIE

BACKING UP YOUR BRAIN

• Back Up Your Brain • Microsoft’s Media Presence

Research Group • Store Every Second Of Your

Life • “MyLifeBits” or “Surrogate

Memory“ • Transference

• What Exactly Is Transference?

TRANSFERENCE – LIVE ONLINE

WHO PAYS FOR IMMORTALITY?

FUTURE GENERATIONS PAY

ISSUE #2: EXTINCTION

• 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid

• 450 meters or 1,480 feet • Probability of striking Earth in

2029 – 2.7% • 2020, Apophis may pass

through gravitational keyhole • Region in space no more than

about a half-mile wide • Possible future impact on April

13, 2036

99942 APOPHIS

ISSUE #3 SPACE COLONIZATION

THE SPACE RACE CONTINUES!

• Harvesting Resources From Space • Planets, Asteroids, Debris

• Stephen Hawking’s Warning • Abandon Earth Or Face Extinction!

PROJECT CONSTELLATION (1)

PROJECT CONSTELLATION (2) • Project Constellation Would Be

The largest Payload Rocket In History!

• Three Times The Payload Capacity of Ares V!

• Colonization Of Moon & Mars • Why Did President Obama Kill

Project Constellation?

• Answer: Albert Einstein’s Dimples In Time Space!

ISSUE #4 DIMPLES & TIME SPACE

DIMPLES IN TIME SPACE

ISSUE #5: QUANTUM TRANSMISSION

• Quantum transmission between the islands of La Palma and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

• Quantum teleportation uses the peculiarities of entangled quantum states.

• Changing the quantum state of one entangled photon reflects in the other photon regardless of its physical distance.

• What does that mean? • IMAGINE INSTANTLY SENDING AND

RECEIVING DATA ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM, GALAZY, OR UNIVERSE!

ISSUE #5: QUANTUM TRANSMISSION

IMAGINE INSTANTLY SENDING AND RECEIVING DATA ACROSS THE SOLAR

SYSTEM, GALAXY, OR UNIVERSE!

ISSUE #6: SUPER EARTH

• Seven times more massive than Earth

• 42 Million Miles Away • Water = Life! • Earth Like Climate • Day-Night Cycle

EMBRACE THE TRUTH

EVERYTHING YOUR

INSTRUCTOR HAS BEEN DISCUSSING IS 100%

VERIFIABLE!