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In America, we value individuality and like to think that everyone is different.It is expected that most youth will be somewhat rebellious sometime around college age.Youthful rebellion is often seen as a healthy and normal groping toward individuality,especially as needed to become distinct from one’s parents.The rebelliousness may be related to major social issues —peace, or racial justice, as we had in the late 1960s.On the other hand, normal, healthy rebelliousness may be an individual test of the line between foolishness and trouble.Early teens may try to shock and worry their parents.
Tattoos, pierced noses, and brightly colored hair are examples.By college age, students may be expected to be testing broader social norms.Of particular delight are actions that point out the hypocrisy of older generations.Streaking, or “running naked through a public place”,is a fine example of that kind of testing.Public nudity is widely condemned by officialdom and can be punished.However, as long as the streaker escapes without being caught,streaking is clearly harmless;one would be sorry to miss seeing a given instance.Streaking is a fad.
A fad allows everyone to demonstrate how different he is — in the same way.Fads wear out. Fads come and go.Streaking became a fad in the fall of 1973,soon making national headlines.It faded out and then came back in the 80’s and again in the 90’s.On at least one campus (Princeton University, a highly respected school),a form of streaking has become a tradition.Each year at midnight on the night of the first snow,nude sophomores run around Princeton’s Holder Courtyard.The tradition has taken hold to an extent that it gets favorable treatment in the national press,and official attempts to end the practice get no public support.
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”.
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