For the final project proposal I plan on expanding on my paper that I wrote two weeks ago, titled " When the motivation no longer exists". The thesis and argument will ultimately be the same, however I will expand more on the argument.
taken from my paper:
"So is there a limit? Yes,there is a max to what the human race can achieve in the terms of making things “better.” Better becomes the best and that is all it really can be. And once this maximum has been reached, all individuality is lost. What makes the human race, the human race, will be gone." I will expand on how the individuality of the human race will be gone, if things progress in the way they are. Also, I will do some more research on the exact meaning of the flow that I am arguing. Without this flow, humans will loose all motivation and essentially happiness.Genetically changing our bodies will not propose a challenge but will eliminate the flow all together. I will also look at the past and how changing the body has not created happiness, mainly focusing on sports. I will go into detail on the topic of steroids and how they have hurt the flow and not made it better.
The counter argument will be defending Silver and what he would say in response to McKibben. Saying that everything that human race makes or does genetically to themselves will be nothing but beneficial. The flow that we know of right now may be eliminated, but a new flow will be created, one that will be far better than the old one. Changing our chemical makeup may be able to stimulate our minds and our bodies not to eliminate the flow, but to enhance it. This new flow ill be so enhanced that the old one will no longer if be in comparison. There is no maximum for human achievement in human genetics. The best will keep on getting better. Also will argue how steroids has improved the flow and not damaged it.
Research will include further detailed reading of specific chapters in "Enough" and past papers about "the flow". Also, reading in depth these sources:
http://flowstate.homestead.com/files/csikszentmihalyi_four.html
The work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, specifically : "Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play" and "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience"
Also :http://academic.udayton.edu/jackbauer/CsikFlow.pdf
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To me, the big challenge here is that your main argument is obviously very close to some of the things which McKibben has to say - to such an extent that I interpret this as a kind of echo of part of McKibben's book.
This doesn't mean it won't work - but it means that you need to clarify (to yourself, and then to us) what you're adding to the conversation. Are you extending McKibben in some way? Strengthening his argument? How are you doing that.
I'm all in favor of it - but you need to show that you're doing something beyond what McKibben does, even if he's you're starting point.
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