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8th Wave International Seniors -- 1st Semester, Spring 2005:
Guidelines for Final Term Paper -- Due one week before Test Period -- Topic:
Morality, Sexuality, and Globalism
How do current discourses on the following issues and 'dichotomies' affect
"Minjok Juche-Seong" (and/or your own personal future) ? Where are 'we' headed:
By What Authority; To What End?
Absolute Values / Intensifying Sexual Revolution(s)
Homosexual "Marriage" / Heterosexual "Open-Marriage" (or Co-habitation)
Gays in the Priesthood / Clergy as Models of Moral Rectitude
Homophobia / "Traditional Family" Values ... Hedonism / Continence
Pre-marital Chastity / Pre-marital Sex ... Monogamy / Polygamy
Petting / Masturbation / Oral Sex ... "Going all the way" / Fornication / Adultery
'Free Sex' / Paid-for Sex (Prostitution) / Incest / Paedophilia
Rape / Statutory Rape / Snuff-movies / Bestiality
Abortion as Birth-Control / Reproductive "Rights"
Eugenics, Genetic-Marketing, Trans-humanism
'Jung' and 'Familiarity' -- in the context of the onslaught of:
Western 'Freedom' / 'License' / 'Sexual Liberation'
Considering the balance between Individual Rights / Social Responsibilities : What guidance or hope would you offer your generation based on your research into the variance in these constructs, over time and cultures? By what authority--using what standard(s)--do you support your opinions, conclusions, and recommendations?
In Addition to an in-class viewing and discussion of the PBS Documentary,
1) The Lost Children of Rockdale County ;
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004R8UI/
... afterwards consider the article on Rockdale, Revisited
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3781/is_200110/ai_n8989077
... sincerely consider, as well, all of the following references:
2) Excerpt On: Erotic play between children
From Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
http://www.geocities.com/leapinghope/9V/PointsBNW.html
In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who may have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.
... erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed. A look of astonished incredulity appeared on the faces of the listeners. Poor little kids not allowed to amuse themselves? They could not believe it. (excerpt from Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley; Chapter 3)
3) Obsessed With Sex : Alfred C. Kinsey and the Sexual Revolution of the Sixties
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41368
4) Aldous Huxley on: The Sexual Revolution
Excerpted from the introduction to Brave New World
http://www.geocities.com/leapinghope/9V/PointsBNW.html
The release of atomic energy marks a great revolution in human history, but not (unless we blow ourselves to bits and so put an end to history) the final and most searching revolution.
... The really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. Living as he did in a revolutionary period, the Marquis de Sade very naturally made use of this theory of revolutions in order to rationalize his peculiar brand of insanity. Robespierre had achieved the most superficial kind of revolution, the political. Going a little deeper, Babeuf had attempted the economic revolution. Sade regarded himself as the apostle of the truly revolutionary revolution, beyond mere politics and economics--the revolution in individual men, women and children, whose bodies were henceforward to become the common sexual property of all and whose minds were to be purged of all the natural decencies, all the laboriously acquired inhibitions of traditional civilization. Between sadism and the really revolutionary revolution there is, of course, no necessary or inevitable connection. Sade was a lunatic and the more or less conscious goal of his revolution was universal chaos and destruction. The people who govern the Brave New World may not be sane (in what may be called the absolute sense of the word); but they are not madmen, and their aim is not anarchy but social stability. It is in order to achieve stability that they carry out, by scientific means, the ultimate, personal, really revolutionary revolution.
... Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. There are already certain American cities in which the number of divorces is equal to the number of marriages. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months, with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
5) Dennis Prager -- Judaism's Sexual Revolution:
Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/PragerHomosexuality.shtml
... The family is not a natural unit so much as it is a value that must be cultivated and protected. The Greeks assaulted the family in the name of beauty and Eros. The Marxists assaulted the family in the name of progress. And today, gay liberation assaults it in the name of compassion and equality ...
The acceptance of homosexuality as the equal of heterosexual marital love signifies the decline of Western civilization as surely as the rejection of homosexuality and other nonmarital sex made the creation of this civilization possible.
Note: in pursuing this assignment, you may choose as broad a range or as narrow a focus as you care to address. You may cover one of the issues introduced at the top (a "particle"); you may address several in conjunction (comprising a "wave"); or you may stand back and address the aggregate concern, in wide-angle (considering the larger "field" vis a vis globalization).
Everyone, however, should access the 5 references numbered, above. The Final Term Test may pay particular attention to these 5 concerns, and the notion of the several instances of "Sexual Revolutions" these links introduce.
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