The essay "Sweetness and Light", written by Matthew Arnold, blindly overemphasized the significance of the pursuit of perfection and downright disregarded the reality of our material being. Having seemingly lived in a closet his entire life, Arnold talked about an ideal world that I believe would work except for the fact that we are human beings, and we tend to make mistakes (Arnold 98-113). The human race is greedy, coveting to acquire more and more material objects to our already huge collection. Although I wish this method would work in today's contemporary times, the notion of culture as "sweetness and light" will never be able to properly function in this material-oriented world.

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