1. As we try to understand Insurrectionism, one way to approach it is to think about the aspects of an anti-government ideology that we find appealing. What appeals to you about an anti-government view?
2. How do we organize to solve complex problems without a functional democracy? What recourse would we have to corporate power, for example, without the ability to organize as a collective?
3. Thinking about all that you’ve learned this semester, what are some ways that our society can emerge from this pandemic with a stronger sense of “we-ness”?
4. What are some examples of other issues in our culture where meanings are contested? What do these contestations reveal?
5. Given what we have learned in the second section of the lecture, how might we respond to someone who tries to minimize the number of people who have died in this pandemic?