Comments on: Did We Mortgage Our Identity? The 1960s Worries About Conformity http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/08/21/archives/post-perspective/mortgage-identity-1960s-worries-conformity.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mortgage-identity-1960s-worries-conformity Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Kay Knapp http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/08/21/archives/post-perspective/mortgage-identity-1960s-worries-conformity.html/comment-page-1#comment-18292 Kay Knapp Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:35:53 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=27241#comment-18292 “Big, better, best – never let it rest.” If you’re concerned about a swankier house or car or the latest tech toy, that’s not necessarily “conformity” – that’s a deeper problem.

]]> By: Ima Ryma http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/08/21/archives/post-perspective/mortgage-identity-1960s-worries-conformity.html/comment-page-1#comment-18268 Ima Ryma Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:25:38 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=27241#comment-18268 Conformity – that’s what my shrink
Maintains makes me a mental case.
Conforming what I do and think
To feel I fit in the rat race.
I’m hitting my shrink’s couch so much,
My body imprint’s on display
From all of my conforming touch.
My shrink says I’m making headway.
In order to pay my shrink’s fees,
A second job I’ve had to take.
But my shrink says that my disease
Means never getting a couch break.

My shrink says that I’ll never be
Fully cured of conformity.

]]> By: Bob McGowan http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/08/21/archives/post-perspective/mortgage-identity-1960s-worries-conformity.html/comment-page-1#comment-18151 Bob McGowan Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:07:43 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=27241#comment-18151 There is a lot to think about and ponder in this week’s Saturday Evening Post leading e-mail story about our thoughts and ideas being our own, and the illusion of such, when in fact it’s a calculated veil of illusion cleverly designed to give that very impression.

What was true in the early ’60s (in this regard) is still true today in this regard even though the time periods are drastically different otherwise in too many ways to mention here.

I will ask this timely question here. Is it really YOUR idea to go out and buy the the latest telecommunication’s company overly loaded “cell-phone-of-the-moment” (which in fact is barely a “phone” at all anymore) or are you buying into the multi-billion dollar telecommunication companies’ “nuclear arms race” of one upmanship with each other, trying to make it “appear” it’s about you, and your “need” of their latest, ridiculous gimmick, when it’s all about THEIR greed need to sell the cell!

Primetime TV is overwhelmingly dominated by these brainwashing ads. To them, one of their own products from April 2010 is already “ancient”. My cell phone from 2003 works as great as ever, and I definitely don’t need a phone with any more features than this one has. Life HAS gotten a lot more complicated since ’03; and one of the main reasons for THAT is that TECHNOLOGY has made it that way, people! Today’s overkill technology is a lot like the drug ads you hear on TV. It’s supposed to fix one problem, but has so many drawbacks otherwise it’s unbelievable. Not to lessen the severity of the drug disclaimers, but it is hard to believe they can say it with a straight face! Any of the ads for men are perfect examples, I’d say. Scary.

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