Life in the Twentieth Century is Characterized by Changing Patterns of Choice
             The above statement is, indubitably, true. Life is based upon an individual's choices; upon their concept of the world. Beginning with the time of birth to the time of death, everyone spends every minute in life making a choice about one thing or another. One could imagine life as a long, winding road with infinite roads branching off in infinite directions. Robert Frost wrote in The Road Not Taken, 'I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.'
             Allen Jesson described it best in his poem Change, saying 'When the world is changing, why should people say the same?' He depicts life as a wave we can not possibly hope to stop. We must learn to go with the flow because 'those who won't move forward, will perish and are surely doomed.' Sure, we may get hurt along the way, but, if we do not continually strive towards perfection, we may as well lay ourselves in the ground.
             Through greater knowledge and understanding of our world, its people and how it works, people's perceptions have changed. We have moved away from the predominant 'herd mentality', brought about by the subjugation and manipulation of government and religious groups, and sought our own purpose in life. Therefore our choices have become more individual, because we are not following someone else's traditions and beliefs - be it learnt from family, teachers, peers or national creed - but a doctrine we have made or chosen for ourselves.
             Since the day we are born, we are bombarded and besieged with information from television, radio, books and magazines. The world is awash with a vast amount of information and each individual is responsible for obtaining, understanding, and making value judgements on this information.
             During the last century, we have begun to abandon our conventional values, which are primarily derived from Christian and Greek philosophy. F...