ABSTRACT
In 1994, a survey of 1,200 people, aged 15-35, found that most of those polled could name no more than two Commandments, and as the essayist Cullen Murphy writes, "they weren't too happy about some of the others when they were told about them". Naturally enough, some insist that any new set of commandments should be called the Ten Tentative Suggestions. A tireless reporter, Murphy interviewed Charlton Heston on the subject and was told that up-to-date commandments might include "do your best" and "keep your promises". In his book, The Second Ten Commandments, Orion Moshe Kopelman says the original set of ten is an outmoded unicultural guide. The first of his new multicultural, worldwide commandments is "Maximize your time spent in flow and happiness". This rule may not make a lot of sense to people in southern Sudan or Kerala, unless they keep up with theories of personal growth or have spent some time in a California beach community.
