• Plato is the father of Idealism- somewhere there is an ideal for everything. Everything is perfect
  • people are flawed and need something to look toward
  • you have a model to follow
  • know oneself to be imperfect but will find a perfect somewhere
    • it is ones duty to seek perfection
  • Forget an individual’s ideal, there is only one
  • the ideal moves your soul
• Realist does not believe there is an ideal
  • we have no perfect example we are just here and then we aren’t
  • there is no ideal just something you have been trained to love
  • very skeptical
  • find terrible things moving
  • nobody is any closer to an imaginary ideal than anybody else
  • everyone is alike and not alike at the same time
  • It is a dog eat dog world and what one person does has nothing to do with anything another person does

I feel as though i am a realist. There is no perfect world or something to strive for except doing what we think, based on our past, to be good.

• the Cold War
  • US vs. USSR
  • US economy is booming and industrial nations are struggling
  • US goal is to keep communism contained
  • Military doctrine  “MAD” (mutually assured destruction
    • new weapons assumed we never have to use or will be used against us
  • US economy structure changes with large scale standing army
  • Central to the technological benefits we have today
  • Boats have lead to multiple advancements

Computers have become a huge part of our lives and we can thank militaries for our ability to have information immediatly