Eos : The Corruption Of Humanity In The World

Present-day American society is fast-paced and constantly moving forward. With so many things to do in such little time, busyness and stress seem to take over our lives. In “The ‘Busy Trap,’” Tim Kreider’s position as to why the audience should strive to avoid busyness is very well thought out, however, some of the points in the essay have faulty reasoning.

Man must be able to take up his ability, time, and knowledge to change the future to the best of his abilities in order to stay clear from the claims of societal values. David Brooks’ article “The Child in the Basement” and Tom Shadyac’s film I Am both basically had the same idea of society. They both claimed that you should always put others before yourself and not focus too much on themselves, but they both had a bit of a twist to it. Brooks shows that sometimes letting people go can really affect their lives, but it 'll make a good cause for a large group. Or how some objects can make some happy, but a human is behind the making of it and it takes them a lot of effort. While Shadyac is all about how in today 's modern society the value and importance of materialistic objects and wealth is reserved to maintain high status and it often makes us forget about the ones who don 't have anything in their lives.

In the article “ The Busy Trap” Kreider tries to convince readers to chose time over money. He makes numerous points including how boasting about busyness takes the form of a complaint. He insults those who voluntarily take on obligations by remarking that they are obsessed with always being occupied. However, the basis for such a conclusion is founded on only a few examples of individuals who were negatively affected by the burden of work. In Kreider’s opinion it is wasteful to be busy all the time because life is too short to work more than 5 hours per day and not spend enough time in one’s happy place. What is your happy place? Picture it and stay there for a while letting your thoughts flow. Notice that your thinking becomes more positive and somewhat out of reach. Next, imagine a life with minimal stress that includes little to no work and much enjoyment; now you 're floating back to reality because that type of life is not in the grasps of most. Similarly, Kreider writes his article as if most people have plenty of time to waste, and to enjoy themselves, as he has. Kreider’s overall point that people keep themselves busy to escape the feelings of emptiness is both ignorant and a reflection of his narrow perspective of the world. His opinion that people feel apprehensive when not working, along with the fact that most people wouldn’t be content living the lifestyle Kreider is promoting, plus his support towards the propositions of full unemployment and a

In the article "Finding Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi he communicates that we have to look over now to when our time is done whether to live or to kick the bucket. He discloses that we have to take control of our own way and not let outside sources act as a burden. Csikszentmihalyi communicates that being alive is to live without limitations. By this he implies not to waste time or any potential. In a study Csikszentmihalyi did with his class at a production line he found that most laborers detested their employment other than one man named Joe. Joe wanted to do what he did. By this Csikszentmihalyi is clarifying that despite the fact that the vast majority loathed working at the processing plant, one man was carrying on with his life how

Roszak makes a point in his essay about jobs being our salvation, where he describe there is no end to a working life. Roszak describes the waste of time in people’s jobs and that most employees don’t even put all of their effort into them. He figures

Stephen Covey, an educator, author, and businessman, once said “most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important”. A lot of people are so focused on work that has to be done, even though it’s not what they should be prioritizing, for instance, family and friends. They are not appreciating living in the moment and instead are rushing around, not making time for the things they should be. If people are determined to get work done, they will soon take actions they wish hadn’t occurred. In the short story, “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets”, the main character, Tom, faces a similar problem in where ambition to do work is overtaking him and he can’t see what is important in his life.

Today, most people look to grow economically. With work days lasting anywhere from eight to twelve hours, we dedicate our time to making money. Time not doing a job is time without money. We recognize the importance in giving up our time so much that we came up with a standard social belief. Time is money.

This leads into the final point Carr makes in chapter one that automation is changing society’s perception of work and leisure. Many people would agree that work is not pleasurable and humans like leisure. However, Carr argues that, “thanks to our bias for leisure over work, ease over effort, we overestimate automation’s benefits” (19). Not only does he argue at the end of the chapter that most people are searching for a blend of life and work, but also he argues that people actually enjoy work over leisure because of the sense of accomplishment and productivity they feel afterwards. Carr argues that we overestimate the benefits of technology, when it may not even be what we really want as human beings. Furthermore, the his skeptical beliefs regarding automation, tacit knowledge, and work versus leisure are central to his argument throughout this entire book.

Work. It seems like an insignificant part of our day. You clock in, then clock out. But on average, Americans work 43 hours per week out of a total of 120 hours, take out the recommended sleep time and we work 43 out of 80 total hours. Therefore we work more than half the time in our daily lives. The larger part of Americans believe in The American Dream. so employees believe in working excessively for the chance of being rich, having expensive objects and being successful. The problem The American Dream is getting less and less possible each and everyday.

The problem is that it only makes them feel better for a short while and eventually leaves them feeling empty. We are now said to be a “harried leisure class starved for time. Economic growth entails a general increase in the scarcity of time.” They say it is as simple as this: increased susceptibility to affluenza means increasing headaches from time pressure. The pace of work has seemed to increase dramatically and we are working much faster today than we were in the past. This contributes to our sense of being overworked, frenzied, harried, stressed out, and burned out by our jobs.

Agreeing with Singer’s solution, one could argue we have become too materialistic in today’s society. Our wants have overcome our needs as we try to keep up with friends in having the most. This selfish desire can be theoretically eliminated by focusing that energy on ending world poverty.

The human race is so inconsiderate to the world, and even others around them. We want one thing; a quick and easy solution to every problem we come across. Not always will things come to us as we suspected they would. Terminal illnesses such as cancer can happen to any of us, and take our lives for a turn. Us as human never know when something is going to happen. It can occur now or later; fastly or slowly. We never look twice to stop and think how lucky and grateful we should be for just being alive. Our lives are more than just simply more than the state of breathing every step we take we affect someone or something. Simply walking past an animal or person in need and not stopping is affecting the world. Time is all you have; use it to your

America today is a very lazy place; people have become too accustomed to their ways and will not even consider what it is doing to them. Everyone constantly praises our wonderful technology; what they don’t realize is what our tech has done to us. As we depend more and more on gadgets to do things for us we lose ourselves to apathy and our personal interests completely forgetting the common good. When it becomes so easy to satisfy our wants we totally forget about those that actually need help. We drive a car 5 miles instead of taking the bus, we use the microwave instead of cooking a meal, and we take the easy way out. This American laziness brought about by dependence on

We are a nation obsessed with doing more in less time: we worship productivity and efficiency. The word "workaholic" suggests an addictive compulsion to constant productivity. Yet American society sees it not as a vice or an escape like any other addiction, but an ideal to strive for. We want workaholics on our team to ensure success, yet we are apathetic to the toll it takes on their personal lives. Dr. Manhattan takes this idea to the extreme, as he is a slave to his research, working round the clock and requiring no food or sleep.

The concept of human nature has been questioned numerous times throughout history. Debates on the issue have come and gone, but the underlying question still remains on the mind of societies across the globe: Are humans generally filled with an innate sense of goodness and light or are we debase creatures at heart continuously tainted with the stains of vice? Though some texts in literature would prefer to prattle on about the exclusive and rewarding wonders that being a human provides, others tend to focus on humanity’s capacity for corruption and blatant savagery. The texts Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, and an A Satire against Reason and Mankind by Rochester are quick to showcase the corruption that plagues the English human nature while displaying society’s role in masking this corruption with a perpetuating sense of nationalism and egotism.