the disenchanted generation
fifty percent of us are reported to have some form of depression. less twentysomethings are voting each year. and if the problems of a generation can be garnered from popular culture, we are starting to see a culture that says, i don't care, i will not conform. of course we don't conform by purhasing clothing with spikes or dog collars creating a subculture as well as a not-so-niche market of mall goers. everything seems relative these days, the lines between rights and wrongs have become sinusodial and ever-so-permeable. "she's a slut! she sleeps around with everyone!" "no, she's just expressing herself. she is freeing her body". to be a purist, an idealist, a priest, is just not kosher anymore. we must turn 1000s of yrs of a flawed history of excluding and persecuting homosexuals because being homosexual is not "wrong" anymore. i tell ya, it's a time of real confusion.
why, you might ask, is it so hard priests, or devout religious dudes of all faiths having such a hard time now? sure, there's the whole seperation of church from state, and western imperialism hoo ha and such, but i think it's more abstract that that. values. absolute values. to be religious requires you to live by strict moral standards and your values are supposedly unwavering.
our generation is a generation in transition. take a snapshot, we are the pendulum at 40 degrees. we are liberal, we hold on to values of individualism, freedom of expression, free markets (some of us). these are important values, and agreed on quite readily in our societies, but where is the morality?
morality, man that's a harder one. we get into issues of universal truths and cultural relativism. how can we seperate them? must we? should we could we? wee...
it's quite a pickle this morality. we're back at the start. or are we? how do we reconcile morality? priests and preachers can't do it any more man, it's a tough gig judgin what is moral and what is immoral.
children and parents are confused. what bit of truth can we really hold onto? what do you teach your children. is it okay to have picture books where gay couples live happily ever after? or do we just ignore that reality.
ours is a generation, disenchanted. very much like the beat generation after the war, the lost generation. the bomb the bomb thebomb. living in fear.. more so disgust at the previous generation. the generators of the bomb. the bomb the bomb. us, we're disillusioned by politics, by the media. at least the forlorn looking ones. i'm sure others have accepted the thin description of life. they water ski on the pond in the cave imitating each other's shadows, without a care in the world, refusing to look down into the depths of the pond. unable, unwilling, undisenchanted, to see the schools of fish in entropy.
although the media is ostensibly a liberator, our generation is starting to realize that it is a generator. ourbombourbombourbomb. so we become disenchanted. lacksidaisical.
our academics, yours truly, baudrillard, foucault, derrida, lay in bed (seperately) and find it hard to get up into another day to be shaped and molded by the electrons and whipped into shape into a simulcratic game of pillsbury doughboy. no tahnk you. i'll stay in bed if it's fine with you. where do we go from here.
more later.
why, you might ask, is it so hard priests, or devout religious dudes of all faiths having such a hard time now? sure, there's the whole seperation of church from state, and western imperialism hoo ha and such, but i think it's more abstract that that. values. absolute values. to be religious requires you to live by strict moral standards and your values are supposedly unwavering.
our generation is a generation in transition. take a snapshot, we are the pendulum at 40 degrees. we are liberal, we hold on to values of individualism, freedom of expression, free markets (some of us). these are important values, and agreed on quite readily in our societies, but where is the morality?
morality, man that's a harder one. we get into issues of universal truths and cultural relativism. how can we seperate them? must we? should we could we? wee...
it's quite a pickle this morality. we're back at the start. or are we? how do we reconcile morality? priests and preachers can't do it any more man, it's a tough gig judgin what is moral and what is immoral.
children and parents are confused. what bit of truth can we really hold onto? what do you teach your children. is it okay to have picture books where gay couples live happily ever after? or do we just ignore that reality.
ours is a generation, disenchanted. very much like the beat generation after the war, the lost generation. the bomb the bomb thebomb. living in fear.. more so disgust at the previous generation. the generators of the bomb. the bomb the bomb. us, we're disillusioned by politics, by the media. at least the forlorn looking ones. i'm sure others have accepted the thin description of life. they water ski on the pond in the cave imitating each other's shadows, without a care in the world, refusing to look down into the depths of the pond. unable, unwilling, undisenchanted, to see the schools of fish in entropy.
although the media is ostensibly a liberator, our generation is starting to realize that it is a generator. ourbombourbombourbomb. so we become disenchanted. lacksidaisical.
our academics, yours truly, baudrillard, foucault, derrida, lay in bed (seperately) and find it hard to get up into another day to be shaped and molded by the electrons and whipped into shape into a simulcratic game of pillsbury doughboy. no tahnk you. i'll stay in bed if it's fine with you. where do we go from here.
more later.
