What's The Point If We Can T Have Fun Analysis

Many people in today’s society question their happiness, whether if it is real or if they just tell themselves that it is. In the article, “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun”, author David Graeber gives a descriptive scenario about the purpose of pleasure by analyzing the acts of insects. He argues what is the purpose of having fun and why do we need the pleasure and uses different philosophical viewpoints to make his argument understandable. Graeber uses the strategies of pathos, logos, and ethos to help support the argument in his article and to give the reader a clear understanding of his intentional purpose for the writing. The writer of this article uses pathos effectively by gaining emotion and interest of the reader. Graeber uses a scenario of a bug to make the article look appealing and adorable and after the reader feels comfortable, he addresses his main points …show more content…
He list facts from known, respectable and intelligent people such as Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Peter Kropotkin, Thomas Henry, Jack Haldane, and many others; All whose different ideas correlate with his own. He quotes a line from Taoist that says “You not being a fish,” said Huizi, “how can you possibly know what makes fish happy?” The students in his class had no response. He uses this strategy to gain the reader’s trust, to state intellectual ideas from respectable people so that the reader’s get a clear understanding that the author is serious about his argument. He targets different groups of people such as scientist, sociologist, naturalist, revolutionary anarchist and Marxist biologist. All different types of people who come from different areas of work, which makes the reader feel not limited to just one idea. As well, the author David Graeber, is a professor from Yale University. Again, a very respectable school which shows that Graeber must be a very intelligent