Wednesday, March 14, 2007

"Why make simple entertainment...if you do not fear so many USA's cannot make the enlightened choices?"

Marathe comments that the U.S.A. tries to bring happiness through freedom, though there is no way to make everyone happy all the time, we have to use a utilitarian system to determine happiness. Though, no one can ever be happy all the time. Some people gain pleasure from what may be painful to someone else. How do we know who is more deserving of pleasure than others? And then he asks whether being pleased is a choice. If we think of the Ennet House or ETA, all of them are manipulated in a way to achieve pleasure. At Ennet House, drug abusers are pleased by whatever their addiction is, but it doesn’t last forever and eventually they can’t gain pleasure from pot or heroin, but become dependent on it just to achieve a most basic sense of satisfaction. They are no longer happy because they are enslaved by their vices and undermines the American system.
Marathe also questions whether freedom is good for society, assuming that freedom means that people learn from their mistakes to improve themselves. Ennet House shows us that this may not be true. Here we see people who have become addicted to various drugs and in the rare case that they do want to improve themselves they can’t because they’re physically dependent on it.
I also liked when Marathe says that Freedom has been generalized and abstracted. Steeply has some trouble saying precisely what freedom means, perhaps due to the face that freedom is a word thrown around so much that it’s meaning has been lost. The definition of freedom differs from person to family to region and is so hard to grasp due to the fact that it’s never rightly defined. I don’t know, maybe I analyzed that one wrong. But that’s what I thought when I read it.

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