With respect of knowledge, people often search for purpose behind everyday experiences to rectify meaning. The problem is that everyday objects, actions, and people come from endless diverse backgrounds resulting from both positive and negative intention. General practices such as religions or sports originate from centuries before and accumulate greater purpose as they continue. Every purpose behind rituals holds moral value that shape around the best optimal perspective. A person may find a certain aspect that they find morally good to be actually immoral when they model the situation in the ideal context. In “The Naked Citadel” by journalist Susan Faludi, an academy of male military men face diversity in the acceptance of their first female
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The convention of human behavior forms a impulsive mental attraction that unknowingly persuades individuals to increase involvement. When excessively influenced by a group, the mental persuasion of behavior, begins to control moral expression much like the The Citadel’s fourth class system that completely replaces identity including morality. In her essay, Faludi writes of an argument between a well known Citadel official and his wife of moral views. Lieutenant Colonel T. Nugent Courvoisie— or the Boo, as Faludi refers to him as, exemplifies the effects that convention of behavior has on ethics. The argument begins, “The Boo interrupted, ‘I have the correct view.’ She resorted ‘No one has the correct view.’ She turned and addressed me. ‘You have to understand him.’she said of her husband of nine years. ‘This is a man who went to military prep schools and a church that was male-dominated, naturally’,”(95). It is never said that the Boo had ever experienced the fourth class system himself but his wife implies that he has been surrounded by male-dominance influence. The Boo grew accustomed to the convention of male dominant behavior which clouded his ethical judgement over time along with the other males targeted by it. In settings more generic like the Ivy League universities, the magnitude of group mindset’s effectiveness is significantly reduced. People who are in these generic settings aren’t easily as influenced and are able to form their own moral views based on the extensive knowledge they have. Karen Ho has first hand experience with this in “Biographies of Hegemony” when This explains why individuals like Ho are not clouded by the attractions presented by Wall Street investment firms and financial jobs. Ho writes “The particular biographies experiences, and practices of
The convention of human behavior forms a impulsive mental attraction that unknowingly persuades individuals to increase involvement. When excessively influenced by a group, the mental persuasion of behavior, begins to control moral expression much like the The Citadel’s fourth class system that completely replaces identity including morality. In her essay, Faludi writes of an argument between a well known Citadel official and his wife of moral views. Lieutenant Colonel T. Nugent Courvoisie— or the Boo, as Faludi refers to him as, exemplifies the effects that convention of behavior has on ethics. The argument begins, “The Boo interrupted, ‘I have the correct view.’ She resorted ‘No one has the correct view.’ She turned and addressed me. ‘You have to understand him.’she said of her husband of nine years. ‘This is a man who went to military prep schools and a church that was male-dominated, naturally’,”(95). It is never said that the Boo had ever experienced the fourth class system himself but his wife implies that he has been surrounded by male-dominance influence. The Boo grew accustomed to the convention of male dominant behavior which clouded his ethical judgement over time along with the other males targeted by it. In settings more generic like the Ivy League universities, the magnitude of group mindset’s effectiveness is significantly reduced. People who are in these generic settings aren’t easily as influenced and are able to form their own moral views based on the extensive knowledge they have. Karen Ho has first hand experience with this in “Biographies of Hegemony” when This explains why individuals like Ho are not clouded by the attractions presented by Wall Street investment firms and financial jobs. Ho writes “The particular biographies experiences, and practices of