Angela Blair is a role model for sexual integrity. She won’t force her views on you, but she will share how she navigated college (UT Austin), fame (Miss Texas USA 2012 contestant), and Hollywood (Ready For Love, reality dating series winner) with complete integrity.
We all need community – people to live life alongside for better and for worse. For young adults, the transition between childhood and settled adulthood can be fraught with concerns about community. Despite attending college and landing their first jobs, young adults are still often unsure of where they wish to live and work in the long run, let alone whether or with whom they want to start a family. They are often painfully aware of the fact that until they discover their spouse or lifelong career, most relationships and jobs are not “the one.” This is exacerbated by what has been described by some as a lack of commitment (especially when the promise of better prospects call members of a would-be community elsewhere). Unfortunately, this state of affairs makes it difficult to stay rooted in place, and thereby to narrow down one’s options.
Since the 1960’s, an increasing number of mothers and fathers have favored “time-intensive, child-centered” parenting approaches. Intensive parenting is a favored approach for parents who want to be involved with their children’s lives by guiding them, spending time with them, and preparing them for adulthood, with the understanding that these are also lifelong relationships. Though this hands-on vision of parenting has at times strengthened family unity, the stakes have been so raised much for family relationships to succeed at a time when there is a rapidly-expanding generational gap in values, politics, and expectations.
I begin this email with a NSFW warning. The content and images below are not suitable for work and, most likely, you may find them inappropriate and offensive. Of course, Princeton’s University Health Services finds them valid and reasonable and worthy of campus-wide distribution. Read on to catch a glimpse of the social environment students must navigate in order to obtain a leading education in American.
To celebrate Veteran’s Day in 2021 with William Wyler’s The Best Years of our Lives is to regain the sense of community and shared humanity that was once taken for granted in the decades of mid-twentieth century America. This is the cultural period when the great films of the Golden Age were created in Hollywood. What we have lost, as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt points out in The Happiness Hypothesis is that “I believe that we have indeed lost something important–a richly textured common ethos with widely shared virtues and values. Just watch movies from the 1930s and the 1940s and you’ll see people moving around in a dense web of moral fibers.”
Many of us have felt the sparkling allure of pura vida, the simple life, and hygge, the feeling of cozy contentment. Our culture urges us to keep what “sparks joy” and to “live your best life” through curated spreads and marketing campaigns. Each image, slogan, and promise represents a fragment of the kind of life one might call good – a life marked by joy, simplicity, and authenticity – but what does it mean to actually be happy, and what really is the elusive “good life” we always seem to want but can’t have?
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