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Today, in the diverse city of Durham, a microcosm of these diverse United States, children will go to bed hungry. Cars will be stolen, houses broken into and fresh graffiti will mar the faces of walls and buildings.
I have wasted some time the last few months wondering whether I should have spent this semester abroad. I arrived in August confident in my decision to stay here, even though many of my friends are abroad, but for the longest time, every conversation I had eventually led to the same question: "So why didn't you go abroad?"
Greed refers to excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness. As one of the seven deadly sins, greed is associated with the extreme yearning to accumulate wealth. Despite its near-evil denotation, society has continually sought ways to substantiate greed and transform it from a vice to a virtue.
Is nothing real anymore? Nothing has been sacred for quite a long time, as the old adage fears. But today, the societal quest to undermine things that are traditionally sacred and hallowed is on the backburner in deference to a far more devastating mission-the questioning and denial of reality.
In his masterpiece Man's Search for Meaning, philosopher and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl tells of several paths that man takes in his endless quest to find purpose in life. He found meaning through the extreme suffering imposed upon him at Auschwitz. While other inmates lost hope, Frankl managed to maintain a sense of purpose, all the while not knowing his wife's whereabouts or whether she was still alive.
Napoleon, though surely not the greatest of listeners, employed a noble practice in hearing complaints. Despite being very short and bitter, like certain chronic complainers in The Chronicle, Napoleon refused to hear a gripe from anyone-from subjects to close counselors-without also hearing two viable solutions for the problem presented. I have no doubt that this not only limited complaints (and beheadings), but also kept an extremely efficient state.
Animal House is a funny movie. John Belushi was at his best with gratuitous vulgarity and lewdness. All of the movie's elements combine to make the film a great comedy, but that's all it is-a comedy, a witty spoof.
