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...reality, they’re nothing but capitalistic parasites: they find what’s popular, make waves about how terrible it is—especially for our youth—and then, once that popularity has waned thanks in part to their attacks, they move on to society??s next trendy craze...
...genre’s implicit message is that society??s background conditions can never be equal; underserved advantage (and disadvantage) will persist indefinitely. The only solution is taking control of one’s life. The upshot of this outlook is an attachment to earned wealth. Why else should 70 percent of Americans support the abolition of the estate tax (according to The Economist), when barely one in 100 pays...
...feel neither satiated nor hungry; he just eats because he knows he has to. In a world of dieting and exercise where being slim is sought after with drastic measures, these guys have the opposite goals in mind: to get bigger, to get stronger, and to become unsurpassable. Does society??s perfect weight affect these men striving for their own perfect weight? “Linemen develop these complexes,” Rodger says. “There are two types: either embracing it, or just doing it because you have to.”But fighting...
...Society is still an unofficial group, but is applying for official recognition from the university. “We’re trying to build a Harvard-wide community in which vegetarians can come together, share food and talk about animal welfare issues,” says Hoopes. The Society??s motive is “not to recruit people to become vegetarian,” says member Amary K. Wiggin ’09. It is to “get Harvard to adapt a more humanitarian approach to food,” she says...
...mass society is likely more true of Americans grappling with Cold War conformity than the YouTube and MySpace culture that we live in today. But Igo ends her book with a consideration of the attempts made by contemporary journalists and social scientists to understand segments of our society??the Soccer Moms, Young Literati, and Red and Blue Staters—who we live with as fellow citizens.Though the era of searching for that “Average American”—representative of the country’s culture, attitudes, and practices—may have...