I never play video games and so I knew I was going to be bad at the Millennium Village Simulation before I started playing. I had trouble playing the game because the help button sent me to an error page. But because it was a video game, I did think it is really interested that it exists. I had not thought about video games being about this kind of thing, so I found that interesting.<\/p>\n
I really appreciated Dr. Bezio\u2019s metaphor for systemic issues as nerves. It was a great way to talk about how complex they are and how much they intertwine in people’s lives. A couple of her best points were that when she said one\u2019s nervous system gets messed up it either shuts down or fights back through pain. This is synonymous with systemic issues in the US because oftentimes people feel so defeated by the systems in place they just shut down, and other times they have the energy to fight back but it does not end well for them. The podcast obviously made me think of the University of Richmond\u2019s current situation because she addressed how humans feel threatened by change. And I think that more than actually thinking it is the correct decision to keep the names our Board of trustees believes change is unnecessary and feels threatened by the idea of it. But change is necessary and without change, we would not be the evolved society we are today. One thing that stood out to me in the reading was when Dorner said that we fail because we make lots of small mistakes that add up. Therefore, the little things do matter, which sometimes we all struggle to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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