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Tuning Out. Academic experts are sharply divided on both the merits and authenticity of the series. Anthropologist Margaret Mead finds that the Louds share both the problems and the rewards of many other American families. Boston Psychiatrist Norman Paul sees something more disturbing. "It is not just the Louds being depicted," he maintains. "The series shows how people tune out the guts of their lives. That's going on today in epidemic form...
...only is the fetus not truly human, but according to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, neither is the newborn, until molded by social and cultural influences. Presumably then we may take the life of the newborn any time before this molding is complete. After how much molding? One hour? One week? One year...
...Anthropologist Margaret Mead has hailed "An American Family" as "a new way in which people can learn to look at life, by seeing the real life of others." But the documentary fails to provide anything "new" except the idea of filming a real family. In fact, one wonders what the point of all this effort is. Real life is all around. We may expect more from television than "Leave It To Beaver" or "Days of Our Lives," but we also expect that if we won't be entertained, we will be enlightened. For all his skill, and luck, Gilbert shows...
Most behavioral scientists, however, do not believe that viability marks the beginning of humanity. In their view, a fetus is not a person but a coherent system of unrealized capacities, and humanity is "an achievement, not an endowment." Anthropologist Ashley Montagu concurs, arguing that the embryo, fetus and newborn do not become truly human until molded by social and cultural influences after birth...
...women whose sexual activities provide distraction but no solution to basic problems. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other, and use wife-swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Anthropologist Gilbert Bartell believes that "sensitive" people find group sex "too mechanistic," that "there is a loss of identity and an absence of commitment," and that "this total noninvolvement represents the antithesis of sexual pleasure and satisfaction...