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found this comment posted on a live book discussion at washpost very intriguing:
"The "hooking up" approach is showing up at work -- think of all the contracting out and job insecurity. And housing. How absurd to see a house only in resale terms, and not as a place to live and put down roots. "Hooking up" is a symptom of our destructive, capitalist culture. It is not liberating for women or men. But we can't go back to the 1950s either. We need new models of mutual, loving relationships."
the discussion was about this book, "Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both," by laura sessions stepp, who happens to be the wife of one of my favorite journalism professors from college park, carl sessions stepp.
so the discussion is interesting, the book sounds like it might have some good insights too - might check it out at the bookstore - but i am interested in how this commenter extended the issue to the rest of life in our fast-paced culture. i blogged about this before, but it reminds me of the idea that after decades of mass mediation (i.e. television mostly) we are a society of people who need instantaneous gratification and grow quickly bored with what we have, wanting to move on to see if we can get something better or easier.
is "hooking up" - the practice of having short flings, usually sexual, in place of meaningful relationships - the symptom of this kind of culture? i think it's more than that - also the devaluation of hard work and commitment (i mean on a mass cultural level, i know there are plenty of hard working committed people out there). but young people, the vibrant future of the country, with each generation are focused on getting, achieving, finding satisfaction (usually materially and sexually). why is it always the older community that is wise enough to realize what is truly meaningful in life? i know plenty of young people who have the same awareness, but on a societal level it's just not there.
i can't help but feel it's the absence of God in the outlook of the youner generation. i'm not arguing for the merging of church and state or anything... i just feel like having Something else to yearn for makes life so much more meaningful. and i'm sure plenty of other people do too... i guess that's where capitalism comes in though, because the projection of the image of american youth - beautiful, thin, virile or sexy, loaded, etc, and all for the purpose of convincing people to buy things - erases the possibility of that meaningfulness on a cultural level. maybe.
i'm just babbling. musa is sleeping on my lap and my leg has completely fallen asleep, i must move...
"The "hooking up" approach is showing up at work -- think of all the contracting out and job insecurity. And housing. How absurd to see a house only in resale terms, and not as a place to live and put down roots. "Hooking up" is a symptom of our destructive, capitalist culture. It is not liberating for women or men. But we can't go back to the 1950s either. We need new models of mutual, loving relationships."
the discussion was about this book, "Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both," by laura sessions stepp, who happens to be the wife of one of my favorite journalism professors from college park, carl sessions stepp.
so the discussion is interesting, the book sounds like it might have some good insights too - might check it out at the bookstore - but i am interested in how this commenter extended the issue to the rest of life in our fast-paced culture. i blogged about this before, but it reminds me of the idea that after decades of mass mediation (i.e. television mostly) we are a society of people who need instantaneous gratification and grow quickly bored with what we have, wanting to move on to see if we can get something better or easier.
is "hooking up" - the practice of having short flings, usually sexual, in place of meaningful relationships - the symptom of this kind of culture? i think it's more than that - also the devaluation of hard work and commitment (i mean on a mass cultural level, i know there are plenty of hard working committed people out there). but young people, the vibrant future of the country, with each generation are focused on getting, achieving, finding satisfaction (usually materially and sexually). why is it always the older community that is wise enough to realize what is truly meaningful in life? i know plenty of young people who have the same awareness, but on a societal level it's just not there.
i can't help but feel it's the absence of God in the outlook of the youner generation. i'm not arguing for the merging of church and state or anything... i just feel like having Something else to yearn for makes life so much more meaningful. and i'm sure plenty of other people do too... i guess that's where capitalism comes in though, because the projection of the image of american youth - beautiful, thin, virile or sexy, loaded, etc, and all for the purpose of convincing people to buy things - erases the possibility of that meaningfulness on a cultural level. maybe.
i'm just babbling. musa is sleeping on my lap and my leg has completely fallen asleep, i must move...
posted by Ayesha | 1:53 PM
1 Comments:
I liked the last sentence the most, however, all the post is interesting and thought provoking. A person becomes materialist after drifting away from God. A person faithful to God tries to follow His command which is for betterment of society including him / her. The cause of behaviour of present day youth, in one word, is materialism. After becoming materialist, a person automatically becomes greedy in all respects (sexual lust including). He / she wants to gain every thing at high speed with least effort which habit, in the end, drags him / her to becoming a beast.
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