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...cheated another of his place." The U.S. is far from living by any such absurd, upside-down ethic. Yet, in the light of today's trends, it can do no harm to ponder the price society pays for the incessant abuse of trust. -By Frank Trippett...
...sacred. Twenty-six years ago, in fact, French Sociologist Jacques Ellul, in The Technological Society, forecast: "Our deepest instincts and our most secret passions will be analyzed, published, and exploited." The great is of secrets is, finally, more than amazing. It is also a bit ominous. -By Frank Trippett...
Each week, the last page of the magazine features the "Time Essay." This week, Frank Trippett used the space to discuss "The Human Need to Break Records." Pointing to gigantic games of musical chairs and quick consumption of jalapeno peppers a proof, Trippett concludes,"Only humans striving for more than mere survival have elaborated competitiveness into the cultural imperative that it is . The obsession with setting records is finally inextricable from the human determination to rise above the past." Consider, in closing, another Trippett observation, "The act of dying," he says, "is one of the very few human activities that...
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