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This 5 page paper argues that the 'unsituated self' as presented by Bellah is a false presumption. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to influence society, and in many ways, each individual on the planet, regardless of conscious affiliation. A quick summation of the problem, as Bellah lays it out, is that modern
society has lost some very important components of its earlier cultural context. There is a longing for the good old days without an understanding of what made them good. There
is a certain hope for better things, but no plan for reaching the goal. There is struggle, but no tangible reward. In the end, he states, this is a type
of cancerous society, one that cannot sustain the human psyche for long. This, then, is what impedes the development, according to Bellah, of the true self. This leads one to
wonder if the true self actually exists, and if it does exist, is it possible for one to become detached from it? "In the course
of history, the self has become ever more detached from social and cultural contexts. The nervous search for the true self and the extravagant conclusions drawn from that search are
probably relatively recent in our society. But the current focus on a socially unsituated self from which all judgments are supposed to flow is a development out of aspects of
American selfhood that go all the way back to the beginning"(Bellah 55). Given this, then, if one accepts what Bellah is stating, then one must also accept that if one
loses sight of what it is to be American, then one will lose, by association, what it means to be true to ones self. According to Bellah so much of
what makes one understand ones place in the universe is an understanding of who one is by virtue of birthright and birthplace. "Americans are increasingly
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