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This-essay is a7807064.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %PLENTIFUL COMMERCIAL TOYS 780706 Our supply of plentiful commercial toys has important cultural consequences. Young people learn at a very early age that play properly focuses upon toys which are supplied by adults in finished form. The child is unaware of who made the toys or how the toys are made. They are disposable. The toys are seen as a product of the technocratic society. Play is made possible because of the toys generated by the technocratic society. The child's fulfillment is made to be dependent upon an adequate supply of the technocratic toys. The child starts to learn very early that fulfillment is dependent upon possession of a full share of the fruits of the technocratic society. This is a lesson which is reinforced many times over---by advertisers as the child becomes accultrated into the adult consumption patterns of the technocratic society. Commercial toys are manufactured to be used in a limited number of ways. For each toy there are a limited number of approved uses. The child is taught the proper way to play with each toy. Specialization is taught---to generate the need for more toys. The child thus learns technocratic social conformity---which focuses upon the fruits of technology. As the child grows up, the toys of social conformity grow bigger and more complex---involving more people: bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, cars, boats, airplanes; houses, lawn mowers, cameras, recreation centers, home computers; guns, cannons, bombs, missiles, submarines, ships; organizations, institutions, armies; etc. The technocratic culture teaches the new member that the fruits of technology are an essential ingredient to their security and fulfillment. The new member thus becomes technologically addicted. Relatively few of the technological addicts are drug addicts. In the absence of may commercial toys, children pick up sticks, stones, bits of grass and plants, and other natural objects and use their imagination in play which is not technocratically dominated. They ask their own questions and formulate their own responses; have their own feelings. They have no right ways to play with the natural objects. There are no institutional guidelines to mold the child into patterns of conformal behavior. The child learns that there are varied ways of playing---none of them exclusively RIGHT. The child learns by experience which ways are personally most satisfying---without having to fight cultural messages which say which way should be most satisfying. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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