There are people who worry about how our world has become, how trivial we have become. So many hours are spent in front of the television, watching hollow comedies, hollow dramas and hollow action. People spend on clothes, beauty products and drugs. Few people have creativity to share in science, philosophy and art. Comparisons are made to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where Ford is worshipped and humans have become little more than machines on an assembly line, created to be happy until they must be recycled.

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Here is a man that has chosen to take his wife’s last-name. I understand his reasoning. He felt a personal want to share family names with his wife, but did not want to make her change her last name, since men often expect this on the part of women and some believe this to be unfair. Anyways, his wife did not want to changer her last name, and if he was the one who wanted them to share a last name, then he was the one who should make the sacrifice of changing his name. This seems perfectly sound.

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