The extent of this schizophrenia should not be overdrawn, but the potential existed for conflicting positions to reify. |
The philosophy of modern medicine has been diverted from attention to the sick and has begun to reify the sickness. |
I'm not sure it would be so much relieving boredom as providing youth with youth examples that would not reify the use of alcohol. |
Others, myself included, have discussed celebrity as a kind of art, providing narratives that reify themes and ideas in the culture much the way myths do. |
They would be forced to consider their own values and the sort of actions necessary to reify those values in the world. |
Moreover, it is important not to idealize and reify traditional culture. |