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Show K3 Modern era brings uncertainty, a lack of humanism dm I give support without advice or stop nuclear weapons which will destroy all we gossip in its trades. I seldom defend a belief have built, I know is unpopular because I don't went The nuclear weapon controversy is a to "waste my time, (which is a euphempost in auxaasexvsasm I find ism for not wanting to be a dissenter in the we recently elected s man who how many things we are able to acquire, how much power we are able to exert on our lives and the lives of others. But what are things and power? Do they give anything to ding to when you wake up in the morning, when you lose your best friend? Materialism has taken the place of human contact and the quest for power has reinforced my conviction. replaced human responsibility. Often I We need, today, workable ways to hear that only the strong survive as a educate people about establishing justification for ruthless behavior such as permanence and security rather than betraying a business partner to make a lot accepting the mindless propaganda we of money on a secret deal, or reinforcing hear that advocates all sorts of uncertain big business with money that should go to things like money, power and winning. support unemployed or underemployed people. Where has the tug of responsibility for I lost my best friend recently, and as I sat in tears over the last words we exchanged, I wondered how it could be that what I had thought was the most permanent thing in my UTe could be gone with the dick of a telephone receiver. I think the alienation from our modern world is one of the biggest problems we face; this incident OPINION BY ir.viTtfig-inAmeri- face widespread behavior the young generation is cynical before its time. Cynicism is at best boring and at worst intenuliy .destructive. Cynicism denies spontaneity (when was the last time you didn't do something crazy because it was immature?). Cynicism denies dreams and hopes (charges of 'idealist these days are equivalent to 'Communist or 'Nazi'). Cynicism denies vulnerability because somehow we're supposed to make wisecracks instead of showing pain and other people gone? Why have the unemployed become lazy, the Soviet people become (again) a conglomerate nuclear threat, the teenage and adult drug abusers irresponsible and the homosexual has taken a stronghAIDS victim a social outcast? Who has in old the '80s; designer labels, BMWs, given us this Godlike right to judge people who are no different than we are? Perhaps militarism, short hair and abounds. For those of us in college we seek to condemn ourselves in a way. I I think the message is particularly hope not. remain consistently energetic and successful when all we really want is for someone to pick up the pieces. Erin Edmonds But worst of all, cynicism denies quest for creativity; in our Neo-conservati- sm dress-for-succe- ever-prese- I find the loss of human contact appalling, and I am more guilty of it than anyone. I have become afraid to reach for help weakness is not tolerated in this competitive decade. I nt has given us overwhelming empirical proof that he believes in nudeer armaments, yet the threat of war nuclear because domestically he create weapons makes us better off. Here is the most we rationalize poignant example of the sense of permanence we lack. An incredible majority chose happiness over s long-ter- m threat that can destroy all the happiness anyway, not to mention life itself. Why? Have we grown so cynical that we create our own murderer? Something must be done if we are to glorify our history rather than annihilate it. I think we must begin with educational institutions, because our society is short-ter- m admittedly too large to be reached in very many other ways. The humanities must be encouraged and rewarded and we need to teach small children (especially boys) that it is OK to hurt and feel pain. Of course, we success, our emphasis must almost always be on the technical. Art, history, literature, philosophy and music are not practical; to do not need to advocate playing the be sure, very few people in these fields wounded soldier, but I seriously doubt, at succeed, and sometimes even survive, in this point, that sensitivity will become a' modern day society. But these are the areas We need to educate teachers that make us human, that force us to come problem. about supporting students rather than in contact with our race and its accomplishthreatening them with failure. ments, that actually demand that we be Each of us needs to laugh and cry more, emotional and understanding. scream and whisper, question ourselves Don't get me wrong technology is and own up to others. I guess, in a sense, we important but it is not God, neither is need to learn to live again, with a sense of money. And without creativity we become security rather than fake bravado. Perhaps no better than the machines we so furiously then we may overcome this alienation, study and invest in, no better than a bunch develop permanent solutions and.. .maybe of reproducing robots who drive BMWs even pick up the phone and give an old and support a bigger machine called friend a call. ss destructive ours is a formative age, a time of inquiry and the only answers we seem to be given are those that pertain to the material. We look for human structure, human contact, and instead we get status symbols. There isn't much safety or security left in of conservatism.) This is becoming am afraid to apologize even when I know I am wrong; the message we have been getting lately is this institutionalized, nuclear world; I'm OK, you're not (we're all supposed to whether we are accepted by society, family be very confident and secure.) 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