The Jool P.P.E (Politics, Philosophy, & Economics) Term5

The Jool PPE: Philosophy, Politics, & Economics (Term 5)

Why do empires collapse? Why does money have value? Why do people obey systems that clearly want to turn them into paperwork, organs, labour units, or cheerful little consumers with branded water bottles? And, most importantly: if society falls apart on a desert island, are you Team Hobbes, Team Locke, or Team “paint your face and start a cult”?

Welcome to The Jool PPE Term 5, a 12-week intellectual gauntlet for students who are ready to stop merely “having opinions” and start building arguments about the world’s biggest ideas: power, freedom, justice, wealth, identity, scarcity, control, collapse, and what it means to be human when the system would rather you didn’t ask.

This isn’t a textbook. It’s a thinking laboratory with literary explosives inside.

What’s inside the Term 5 Lab? 
A Dash of Futurism Peer into the next 50, 100, and 150 years.
Debate whether a multipolar world will bring peace, prosperity, and moral progress — or just more flags, drones, tariffs, and men in suits saying “stability” while panic-sweating into a microphone.

Wealth: More Than Cold, Hard Cash
Explore wealth as money, status, health, time, morality, culture, dignity, and possibly 46 goats named Linda.
Students examine Plato, Aristotle, the welfare state, the triple bottom line, and whether a billionaire who cannot spend money is actually rich or just trapped in a very shiny prison.

Social Justice and Civil Disobedience From Jim Crow and Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X and South Korea’s 1987 democracy movement, students investigate when it is right to obey, when it is right to refuse, and when the law itself becomes the problem. Naturally, they then design their own plan for civil disobedience. Peacefully. Mostly.
Power Without Permission Who really runs the world? Governments? Corporations? Algorithms? Lobbyists? Oligarchs? That one person who controls the school printer?

Students study hegemony, technocracy, surveillance capitalism, lobbying, consent manufacturing, and deep-state logic before building their own terrifyingly plausible “Shadow Government” card system. Educational. Slightly alarming.

Brave New World: The Economics of Contentment In Huxley’s dystopia, people are happy, sedated, productive, and gloriously unfree. Students explore consumerism, conditioning, planned obsolescence, social media dopamine loops, Soma, slogans, and the great modern question: if everyone is comfortable, distracted, and buying things, who needs a dictatorship?

The Politics of Stability
Still in Brave New World, students ask whether peace is worth the price of freedom. Is censorship more effective when it looks like entertainment? Is sedation more powerful than violence? Are we genuinely free, or have we simply clicked “accept all cookies” on the terms and conditions of our own obedience?

Lord of the Flies: Politics When Everything Goes Splendidly Wrong Do humans need rules — or rulers? Students throw Hobbes, Locke, Durkheim, Weber, Ralph, Jack, Piggy, the conch, fire, fear, face paint, and political legitimacy into one jungle-sized argument. Expect island elections, propaganda posters, symbols of authority, and the deeply uncomfortable realisation that “the biggest stick” has historically done quite well in politics.

Never Let Me Go: Ethics, Identity, and Personhood
Are you still a person if society only values your body? Through Ishiguro’s haunting novel, students examine Kant, Descartes, Voltaire, Marx, Keynes, Locke, Foucault, Mill, Bentham, Freud, Arendt, bioethics, exploitation, compliance, and whether kindness becomes dangerous when it politely keeps a monstrous system running.

Wool: Economics in a Coffin
In a closed silo society, scarcity is not just unfortunate — it is designed. Students explore Malthus, Marx, Adam Smith, labour hierarchy, rationing, opportunity cost, artificial shortages, centralisation, and the price of fresh air. Includes a survival budget, because nothing says “economics” like choosing between coffee, socks, and legally permitted oxygen.

Wool: How to Fix Broken Systems
Hayek, Schumpeter, Sen, and Mill enter the silo. Nobody leaves calmly. Students analyse censorship, system collapse, creative destruction, agency, utilitarian sacrifice, and whether patching the leaks is wiser than smashing the whole machine and hoping the plumbing has moral integrity.

Sophie’s World: Astonishment, Identity, and the Big Questions
Students return to philosophy itself: Who are you? Are you the same person over time? Is everything atoms? Is free will real? Can you step into the same river twice? Would Socrates survive a modern classroom? From Democritus and Heraclitus to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and the Enlightenment, students build their own philosophy of YOU.

Why JOOL?
Because smart isn’t enough. Structure wins. At Jool, students learn to handle huge ideas with precision. They don’t just say, “That’s unfair,” “That’s bad,” or “I think Jack is mean because he is mean, and also mean.” They learn to build proper arguments using T.E.E.A:
Topic.
Explanation.
Evidence.
Analysis.

That means students learn to think deeply, speak clearly, write analytically, and defend their ideas with the intellectual confidence of someone who has just discovered three philosophers, one dystopian novel, and a suspiciously powerful conch.

Warning
This book contains: shadow governments, social safety trampolines, invisible billionaires, philosophical goats, Soma jingles, dystopian marketing plans, face-paint politics, tribunal judges who are 46% impartial, organ-donor ethics, rationed oxygen, suspicious philosophers, and absolutely no tolerance for floppy, structureless thinking.

Are you ready to question the system, redesign society, and possibly survive the silo?

Grab your copy and start thinking like a polymath.