Indecision with Choosing Majors
Camille Paglia is telling the population of young Americans who are going through the higher educational system that they are not going to be happy by choosing a high paid non-artistic career. She says that because they will not be working with their hands, “They bear little relationship to the liberal arts of broad perspective and profound erudition that I was lucky enough to experience in college in the 1960s,”and that the young people of America will become machines. Every person is meant to do something with their life; someone must pick up garbage on the side of the road and someone with too much money will give away free cars on television. The social structure cannot work properly without all of its niches being filled. The indecision many college students face is, exactly, whether to go for the moneymaking career--to go straight into the working field, or to major in a subject they enjoy yet end up pursuing a career that has nothing to do with their chosen degree. Indecisiveness does not prevent happiness, humans change their minds literally all the time, but not utilizing their powers of mind makes them unhappy. I plan on becoming a nurse practitioner, but that is not keeping me from having a hobby on the side that makes me happy. Ironically enough, my hobby is to be artistic in every form, I love to draw and paint, but I will not be unhappy just because my career is not as fun as my hobby. The cynical nature of Paglia’s article strikes me as nothing more than the words of an irritating old woman stuck in the ways of her past.
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