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Do What You Love And The Money - College Paper

Do What You Love And The Money

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In this essay I will examine the meaning behind Jacob Needleman's statement "There is this idea: ' will follow'. I think that this is one of the New age Fantasies". First explaining this quotation, I will then look at some of the questions that this statement raises, using similar views from an anthropology background and scholars such as Karl Marx to investigate the authors ideas of self knowledge and the role of money in western culture that are in the related article.
Through this article the author is trying to express the inherent fallacies that are present in such a statement as " will follow". This statement originally quoted by Marsha Sinetar, in her 1989 book ...

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contends, that money is the "Chief representative of 'life on earth' " than money is what drives us, we chase it, money, in the author's eyes does not follow us. Therefore the statement " will follow" is contrary to Needleman's beliefs and in a sense would seem like a new age fantasy. Human life to him is money, to be human in this day and age is to require money and our own conciseness needs to accept this fact. To understand you're individual life, you must accept that money is the most important piece in our culture at this time in human evolution you must accept it and adapt to it in order to survive. To believe that you can do what you like and the money follow is incomprehensible.
In addition to Neeldeman's theory if you look at a similar hypothesis taken by anthropologist Meridith Small which serves to better illustrate the point of money being the decided factor in all of society through human evolution. Dr. Small uses the example of mating and sexual attraction in ...

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Added: 9/13/2005 10:42:38 PM
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