Summary
The Decline of Neatness, written by Norman Cousins, depreciates the sloppy clothes people wear now for the sloppiness virus will ruin our society, especially in clothing styles, speaking ways, emotions and human relationships. Norman Cousins, first of all, regards comfortable clothing as the most important things while there are more and more young people loving to wear torn blue jeans. These people have strong desires to be fashionable so that they can catch people’s eye; however, in Norman Cousins’ mind, their preference is just a kind of blind behavior and lack of individual characteristics. Secondly, Norman Cousins despises slovenly speech people use today for these fragmentary words are the symbol of incoherence and casualness.
The casualness, moreover, influences the emotion and attitude people have a lot. When people become casual, they are prone to be brutal and violent facing others; in addition, children living in the society will be affected a lot because they see and mimic people around them everyday. Lastly, untidiness is also related to human relationships, as it is seen in films that people’s feelings are removed toward sex. In conclusion, Cousins deeply hopes that Victorian attitudes can be brought to an end, and people and the society can go back to basics.
Response
Slovenly words are used frequently nowadays but I do not agree with the phenomenon. There are more and more people having the habit to use fragmentary words while talking to people, especially chatting on the Internet. They enjoy using sprawled words and abbreviation; however, their sounds are no more than grunts and murmurs.
I also deem that the casual attitudes affect people’s behavior a lot. When they use little words communicating with others, they will gradually become careless and informal. Facing people, they will care less and then do some impolite action; in addition, in their mind, they will feel impatient and then become violent. It is a continuous process.
I conclude that everyone should be reliable to the phenomenon of untidiness; celebrities should not wear sloppy clothes so that people will not follow suit. Elders should be good models because children are lack of judgments and directly learn what they see on the streets or on TV. We should listen our true feeling and do what we really want to do instead of being blind. I am deeply convinced that neatness is the priority. If everyone does not follow the fashion right away, our society or even the world will become quite better.
I think TV and celebrities have great power to influence public’s thinking and attitude toward things.
回覆刪除Take the fashion clothes for example, people will imitate popular singers or movie stars’ wearing. That’s why either you shop on the real story or on-line store, you can see the pictures which show the celebrities or the popular people have the same one. Furthermore, the effect of showing the pictures brings a big amount of money for people following the popular people.
For me, the popular singers or celebrities have big influence on my life; especially, the wearing or the fashion stuff they have. Some TV shows also discuss the fashion guide, which the popular singers or movie stars lead. After the program was broadcast, the stuff must be sole-out tomorrow. From that, it is not hard for us to image the mighty strength the celebrities influence our society.
The influence not only in wearing, fashion style, but also the attitude toward things. Now, there are many conversation or interviewing TV programs, which invite celebrities to talk about their life, or discuss a topic. Thought or attitude of the well-known people will be revealed during talking. People will be affected easily, especially the teenagers will remember what their adorable singers or movie stars talk about.
Therefore, the popular people have important social responsibilities toward the society. They should use their power to have good influences to the world instead of broadcasting some unmoral thinking to the world.