As our first seminar came to a close, I couldn’t help but feel like the whole thing had been for nothing. That after a 60 minute period of talking, the question “Is capitalism so deeply flawed that all attempts to ensure the public good is doomed to failure” wasn’t sincerely answered.
This is not to say that we did not have a smooth flowing seminar interspersed with valid ideas, but rather that quite a few people got too caught up with the data and quoting that they forgot to put their own two cents in.
I feel like overall everyone learned a lot. I myself have never dug so deeply into an article about economics. I had usually simply given up after a couple of minutes but this activity really forced me to suck out every last penny out of the articles.
I hope that we can do another seminar sometime in the future where people will feel more encouraged to voice their own opinions and be willing to take risks and be a little original.
