Do you feel our society is collapsing under the weight of innate savagery?

Yes

explanation:

Innate savagery is no way to run a society. A society needs to have rules and order. If every society was run like this then we would be iving like the Lord of the Flies.

i don't really know the circumstances. i personally think not due to it not being fair for all parties and how hated i'd become if i thought it was a good thing.

"why don't you like me the way i am? " i cried. "i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano, and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! "

explanation:

the conflict between jing-mei and her mother is over jing-mei's piano lessons since her mother wants her to become a prodigy but she does not want to play it any more.