[lit-ideas] Re: Irene's experiment...

Sounds great, as usual.  Now some examples.  From anywhere you choose,
television, radio, medical care, government, shopping malls, you name it. 
Give me some examples of how society, I think the word is appropriate,
affirms life.

Regarding success, saying people with half a brain resist prefab values
also sounds good.  But where are these people and what are they
substituting for prefab values?    


> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/28/2006 11:05:03 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Irene's experiment...
>
> Andy: I also stated that society straightjackets
> everyone with a very very narrow definition of success in 
> only one form: money.
>
>
> You talk about "society" the way Omar Khayyam talks about 
> fate. That's what gets me, this introjected "society" in 
> your discourse, like some white noise taken for messages 
> from the spirit world. "Society" is this faceless other, an 
> undefined dictator, a free-floating fog of authority.
>
> By "society," do you mean TV or other media? If you 
> substitute "TV" for "Society," and give people some credit 
> for being able to resist crass seductions, I wouldn't have 
> much truck with your comments.
>
> Jobs: they are meant to be simple so that everyone can do 
> them. That's why money is narrowly defined as success; it's 
> a tangible kind of success *simple* enough so that everyone 
> can appreciate it and strive for it.
>
> It's the lowest common denominator, not the amorphous fog 
> with the straightjacket. Anyone with half a brain knows 
> enough to resist prefab success or any prefab value. Anyone 
> with imagination will try to improve what they are given, 
> instead of merely accepting it.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html


------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html

Other related posts: