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The Answer Is a Click-Away Can’t decide whether to dump your boyfriend, move house or sell your car?The answer may be just a click-away.Two British men and three women will let the Internet play God for 15 days by handing over their daily,sometimes life-changing decisions, to a potential jury of 12.7 million people,Internet news portal MSN said in a statement.The five people were chosen as part of a project to give the Internet a chance to help ordinary people make important daily decisions.
This latest venture comes three decades after the publication of Luke Rhinehart’s best-selling book “The Dice Man”,the story of a man who gives up his control of life to the dice,and follows the worldwide success of reality TV show “Big Brother”.Each of the five will put a decision a day to the Internet community and will have to act on the outcome of the decision,although they will be given a “joker”—meaning they can back out of one decision —during the period, MSN said.Internet users around the world will be able to vote on the decisions each day by visiting www.liveyourlife.msn.co.uk.
A dedicated site has been created around each participant,giving information about their backgrounds,their loves, hates, hopes and daily diary updates.At the end of the 15 days,web users will decide which of the five has let the Internet live their life to the maximum and he or she will win 10,000 pounds.In the past people tended to rely on dice or some fortune books to decide their next action.Nowadays it seems a popular trend to express their problems on the Internet to seek help.But is it really beneficial to make decisions based on the Internet?Or we’d better depend on ourselves and be responsible for our own lives.
Technology and the division of labour have done two things:by eliminating in many fields the need for special strength or skill,they have made a very large number of paid occupations which formerly were enjoyable work into boring labour,and by increasing productivity they have reduced the number of necessary labouring of the population,that is to say, its labourers,will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy.It seems interesting and relaxing good news at the first sight,but when one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved,the prospect is not cheerful.
The past aristocracies invented a lot of activities to make fun out of boredom,however, the problem of dealing with boredom may be even more difficult for such a future mass society than it was for aristocracies.The latter, for example, ritualized their time;there was a season to shoot grouse,a season to spend in town, a season to hold a lot of parties, etc.The masses are more likely to replace an unchanging ritual by fashion which it will be in the economic interest of certain people to change as often as possible.Again, the masses cannot go in for hunting,for very soon there would be no animals left to hunt.
For other aristocratic amusements like gambling, dueling, and warfare,it may be only too easy to find equivalents in dangerous driving,drug-taking, and senseless acts of violence.Workers seldom commit acts of violence,because they can put their aggression into their work,be it physical like the work of a smith,or mental like the work of a scientist or an artist.The role of aggression in mental work is aptly expressed by the phrase “getting one’s teeth into a problem”.
Within my group of friends,when one of us is struggling with a recent breakup after a long-term relationship,the castaway will be sad and depressed.The response to sadness takes one of two courses —either appetite fails totally,or we eat excessively to quell our yearnings over lost loves.If one of the girls in my dorm wants to indulge her appetite for food after a breakup,we all join in.We all eat terrible food in terrible quantities.For instance, ice cream, cakes, cookies and potato chips all become comfort foods that we consume in excess.
I think this happens for a variety of reasons.To begin with, at my age — nineteen —we are all very concerned with our physical appearance.We want to be attractive,to have the kind of body image our society values.To that end, we moderate what kinds of foods we eat,how much, and how often;22.and we often overexert ourselves at the gym trying to burn off extra calories.We maintain good habits to keep up good appearance and thereby maintain a good relationship.However, when anyone experiences something as stressful and emotionally draining as a broken heart,he or she tends to disregard healthy habits and takes some pleasure in consuming those formerly forbidden foods.Of course, it is all a vicious circle.We lose our boyfriends,we become depressed,we eat, we gain weight (which, in turn, depresses us),we struggle to regain our self-respect, we enter into another relationship, and the cycle goes on.
Food is not the only recourse for a sad lover.One friend of mine soothes her broken heart by going shopping —buying new clothes and new shoes, maybe a piece of jewelry —to make herself feel better.Whether it’s food or shopping,self-indulgence is often good medicine for the blues,if it is not carried to excess.The worst response is turning to alcohol or drugs.
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