Centers and the force

Today (11/29/09) there is/was a star wars marathon featuring the orginal trilogy and something that Obi-Wan said to Luke during episode six reminded me of what we've been studing. The line, “Many of the truths we cling to depend richly on our own point of view” reminded me of the "flaw" for lack a better term, with centers. Mind you these are the good guys we're talking about but the point still stands.

In the next life...

... I'm going to ask for more memory, or so goes the old tech joke. In a sense the article is right, if we follow actual knowledge of facts as inteligence then maybe google is unitentionally making us dumber by increase the occurences in which we just "google" something instead of relying on what we know. This is a side effect of psuedo-modernism, we are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data in the world we withdraw. Look at some of the most sucessful works in recent years, most of them are escapist fantasy. For those into video games take the most recent teamfortress game, there is no reason for anything, no story, no canon(barring the bit about the RED spy being the BLU scout's father). Another example would be the predominance of shoot 'em up movies and while that alone is nothing new, the bloodless fight scene Transporter 2 where in the title character beats down eight pseudo kung-fu-ish masters by standing in one spot and letting eight of them charge him one by one. Yes, hollywood has been doing this for years but it has become quite prominant lately, though in all kung-fu or other martial arts movies the Conservation of Ninjutsu is in full effect, but it's only gotten worse.





Only you can prevent psuedo-modernism

Post-post-modernism

If we take Postmodernism to be what we have been studing, that is to say the lack of narratives, lack of a center, and a realization that knowledge is infinite and by that token we will never know everything, then we might be entering a post post modern age.
Post-post modernism by that token would either result in people retreating into various fantastical stories, their own center in a way, as the writer of the passage argues, and something I have noticed in my own experience. To some including myself depending on the work will decry books, tv shows, and other media as lacking in redeeming social value. however true to postmodern ideas it is all relative. As for all the facts being sent out it iswhat has always been going on, but we have reached a time where we have more than most if not all of the generations previous.