ANT322H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Teleology, Anomie, Divine Providence
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Having no religious foundation (?) materialistic culture leads people to become anomie suicidal. Who am i? can"t be answered when in state of anomie. The world with younger people is better. Simon and garfunkel skid row: i am a rock/an island, at seventeen ugly girls left out, i am nobody! Who are you? : thanatopsis ~ reflection on mortality, hey, you can you feel me, no one"s there to all these meaningless feelings i can"t deal with in my life, youth gone wild. Experienced the world, not thought of it emily dickinson and her poems. Music was a lifestyle back then ~ pink floyd, procul harum. We need the profane in our lives (danesi: elvis brought it. ~ kurt cobain: criticized world, full of hate, skid row glam rock (?) Nihilism ~ alexei tolstoy ---- there is nothing! Meaning structure determined if in a group. These songs question ethics, morality/structure of modern culture.
