Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty BM | Judge: Sarah Lundeen
Contention 1 is Piglet

The Ego is the root cause of all forms of suffering and oppression, only by embracing the Te can we return to harmony that existed thousands of years ago
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 13-16,1992) {gender neutral phrasing added by JMU Debate in }
Thousands of years …only partially understood

Military dominance and furthering the militaristic ideologies that exist and are perpetuated by the President’s war powers, astronomically augment the ego, and result in economic and environmental devastation
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 216-220, 1992)
The Conservatives (being … ninety square miles.

Thus, JMU PP affirms the Te in an effort to criticize the war powers authority of the President of the United States in the area of introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities because it is a manifestation of the ego.

Contention 2 is Solvency

The Ego is responsible for all forms of pain and suffering, rejecting the ego on an individual level changes the way we react to suffering
Wells 2012 (Pamela J. Wells, spiritual and inspirational writer who writes¶ articles on spirituality, awareness, being selfless,¶ how to transcend the mind,  Spiritual and Inspirational Writers Blog, Ego = Pain + Suffering, January 28, 2012)
Our identity with … loneliness and separation.

Western ideals often create difficulties where there are none. Embracing the Te allows us to see things As They Are, preventing western ideology from clouding our better judgment
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 169-172, 1992)
One of the many … he'd broken his leg. 

Eliminating the Ego allows us to become the small, and attain perfect virtue
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 199-201, 1992)
Returning to Taoist … By becoming small. 

The Te is unique in that it uses philosophy and takes a solid action. Embracing the Te is a prerequisite to achieving any kind of real world change, because it necessitates effortless political action
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 155-157,1992)
Taoism is not … with effortless action.”

The Te is a bottom up approach. Addressing the ego at the individual level creates the best results, and combats the state’s egotistical tendencies
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 224-227, 1992)
The Taoist ideal … for toxic effect. 

Rejecting the Ego solves all worldly conflicts and allows for contentment, key to value to life
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 187-188, 1992)
The Taoist alchemist … hidden among men. 

Contention 3 is Framework:

Policy education is spiritually deficient. Tao education better creates harmonious learning in academia, and combats the social engineering of the constructs of the debate space
Attempts to socially engineer the debate space into 'predictable, manageable forms' fail--the joy of life comes spontaneously in accepting alterity as it is
Slabbert 1, (Jos, Taoist teacher, “Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering,” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm shree, ev under erasure)
If you open … damage we will do. 

Role-playing breeds interpassivity through addiction and feeds the ego. This is evident in the current status of policy debate: we talk about enacting some kind of government policy that doesn’t actually go into Congress, or we interrogate oppression through personal narratives, and therefore any action we take is corrupted by the ego. We must break away from the social engineering of the status quo and establish a fluid debate space
 Antonio 95 (Robert, University of Kansas, Nietzsche’s Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 101, No. 1 (Jul., 1995), pp. 1-43shree)
The “problem of … type of tyrant (Nietzsche 1986, pp. 137, 168; 1974, pp. 117-18, 213, 288-89, 303-4).

The aff is a pre-requisite to preventing cooption because we as individuals act in virtue. The Te calls for a transformation from virtue to virtue in action, which means the aff’s politics don’t get coopted
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 22-23,1992)
As we were … just such a transformation. 

Taoism directly challenges western ideals and is more productive than western schools of thought
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 18-19,1992)
Briefly, Taoism is … of flowing water.

Fiction is key to decisionmaking by training us to cope with complexity and ambiguity
Djikic et al 13 - Maja Djikic  Ph.D. is a Senior Research Associate and the Director of Self-Development Lab at Rotman School of Management , Keith Oatley professor emeritus of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu University of Toronto  (“Opening the Closed Mind: The Effect of Exposure to Literature on the Need for Closure”, Creativity Research Journal, 25:2, 149-154)
The need for … are still admired.

Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty BM | Judge: Sarah Lundeen
Perm do the plan and all non-competitive parts of the alternative.  The alt;s focus on the individual destroys communities that could sustain liberation and cedes the political.
Kirsch 2K (Max H., Associate Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies: The Public Intellectuals Program at the Florida Atlantic University, Routledge, “Queer theory and social change”, p121-123, http://books.google.com/books?id=Sfd82XETptUCandsource=gbs_navlinks_s)
Queer theory has … and collective opposition. 

The alternative is a coercive claustrophobia that totalizes queerness and is an abstract theorization that serves as a justification for future domination of the oppressed—takes out alt solvency.
Snediker 6 (Michael, Visiting Assist. Prof. of American Literature @ Mount Holyoke College, “Queer Optimism,” Postmodern Culture, Volume 16, Number 3, May 2006)
As I've made … claustrophobia unto itself.

Eeyore Effect DA: their starting point at personal oppression projects their individual fears onto the worlds and creates negativity to a degree that disillusions us from believing we are powerless. This will always crowd out the Te, and means we can never reject the ego. Means they can’t solve
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 55-58,1992)
The Eeyore Effect … powerless, they are.

The Eeyore Effect kills kindness, effectively destroying value to life
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 78-80,1992)
To close this chapter, we would like to quote from Hope Against Hope: A Memoir, in which Na- dezhda Mandelstam described … moment. But first . . .

Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty BM | Judge: Sarah Lundeen
We meet— Resolved is to reduce by mental analysis,
Random House 11 (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolve)
First, Resolved: re•solve  ri-zolv  Show IPA verb, re•solved, re•solv•ing, noun
verb (used with object)
5. to reduce by mental analysis (often followed by into  ).

USFG is the people
Howard, 2005 (Adam, “Jeffersonian Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People,”
Ideally, then, under … from the people.

Should is merely a persuasive recommendation, which is the 1AC
Words and Phrases, 2002  (“Words and Phrases: Permanent Edition” Vol. 39 Set to Signed.  Pub. By Thomson West.  P. 370)
Cal.App. 5 Dist. 1976.  Term “should,” as …mandatory but permissive.  West’s Ann.Pen Code, § 1538.5(b).---Cuevas v. Superior Court, 130 Cal. Rptr. 238, 58 Cal.App.3d 406 ----Searches 191.

Fiction is MORE effective at changing beliefs than non-fiction—we lower our guard and stories create empathy—numerous studies prove—key to politics and public interest
Gottschall, 2013 Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington and Jefferson College and is the author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Find him at jonathangottschall.com. Jonathan Gottschall: Why fiction is good for you ¶ http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20120525-jonathan-gottschall-why-fiction-is-good-for-you.ece
Is fiction ... interest after all.

Taoism teaches us to be observant in order to better educate ourselves
Hoff 92 (Benjamin, University of Oregon, B.A. in Asian Art at The Evergreen State College, The Te of Piglet, Penguin Group Publishers, pg. 149-151,1992)
Returning to Pooh … sort of Bear. 

Limits are impossible—the world is too ambiguous. We must be flexible in response to this ambiguity
De Cock 1 (Christian De Cock, Professor of Organizational behaviour, change management, creative problem solving, 2001, “Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities Organizing (writing) in our post-industrial society” in the book “Science Fiction and Organization”)
'As Marx might … to break loose' (McCloskey, 1994, p. 166). 

Forcing us to debate issues of “what should the government do” masks our individual relationships to violence and destroys individual agency towards being able to resolve these issues
Kappeler, 95
(Susanne, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, The Will to Violence, p. 10-11shree)
We are the … to human control. 12