Word: conscious
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...such a setting, Australians - Sydneysiders in particular - have evolved a natural ethos as pleasure seekers in all areas of life. As the writer David Malouf points out, we don't even think of ourselves as hedonists, because that would be too self-conscious. Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook...
...congratulated themselves on the idea that, whatever their technical imperfections, they have richer personalities (turbulent with love, laughter, passion, envy, etc.) than the merely rational/mechanical robot? Maybe, next to the sleek artificials, we messy biologicals (requiring deodorants and bathrooms and toilet paper and all the rest) will grow self-conscious and ashamed...
...sigh] I don't know. If you'd asked me that question about two years ago I probably could have given you a really self-conscious, carefully - constructed answer. There is something about the medium that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might...
...Census Bureau, 32% of all births today are to unmarried women, up from just 5.3% in 1960. While teenage pregnancies have declined, there has been a dramatic upsurge among college-educated career women like Marianne. Some got pregnant by accident. But many more have made the conscious decision to have a child on their own because they haven't found Mr. Adequate, let alone Mr. Right. "Now almost everyone seems to know someone firsthand or secondhand who has done it," says Jane Mattes, founder of Single Mothers by Choice, a 4,000-member international support group. "That's a huge...
...child alone is far from easy. Marianne first began considering single parenting in her late 30s, after she broke off a four-year relationship. "I decided I wasn't going to turn 40 without at least exploring having a child," she says. "I wanted it to be a conscious decision, as opposed to something that just didn't happen to me." Money was not an issue--she was part owner of a thriving software company and owned a condo in Cambridge, Mass., and a house on Cape Cod--but she still underwent two years of therapy before she made...