1. Struggle For Personal Authenticity
... for behavior, thus no rules to reaffirm the self, a pheno! mena that Emile Durkheim called "anomie" or normlessness. In modern times we have become increasingly obsessed with the artifacts and material objects that surround us then the people that surround us. From this growing culture of consumerism and individualism we have tended to abandoned the concept of empathy and have opted ... of death. With consumerism and the growing impersonality of modern society we have shifted from relationships with other human beings to an artifact culture, placing more emphasis on artifacts and materi...
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