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Anyway, from what I understand POSTMODERNISM to be is a movement that is being driven by technology. With technology and the answers it has helped to discover, the human population can manipulate life, cause death and watch as the world changes. Technology even seems to erase boundaries. Travel no longer is the only way to see the world. The internet and televisions have became a window, an open door.
If the human population is attempting to utilize the resources that are available on earth in order to make life better, it is best to understand what better is. But being better in one aspect of something, say being more efficient in correspondence through an e-mail, creates a sterile environment free of the complications of waiting in line at the post office or even conversing with a person in real life. Human interaction has become an inconvenient annoyance. The improvements that have been made and the concepts that have been scientifically determined have highlighted the laziness of humans, as well. There are too many fat people for as much as is known about diet and genetics. There is too much pollution for all that is known about global warming, or even just the preservation of the earth. Being better at these things is a personal perception. Partaking in the useful information available to anyone in the world is a choice. But we all have different ideas of better. And the postmodern movement is telling me to do what I believe is best based upon any information that I would like to believe. What should I believe to be true…
And so the POSTMODERN movement also creates confusion. While defining a time period, the things and events and ideas that will come about during that time are indefinable. Chaos might explain it best. Everyone is doing his or her own thing. Being an individual is fashionable. Making a scene is artistic. The internet and television continue to provide the familiar window into others lives without actually interacting with anyone, however eccentric they might have become with inspiration provided by the postmodern aura.
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Post-it note-You made some excellent comments and posed some very interesting questions as well. I really liked your comment on how technology erases boundaries. "Travel no longer is the only way to see the world. The internet and televisions have became a window, an open door." You can link this to what Dr. Rog said in class about people preferring things that are simulated over reality. The internet and TV provides you information faster than travel can and we discussed in class how faster is better. You also brought up some great points about technology and how we as a culture have become lazy. We will go into detail about this when we read one of our theorist and I think you will find it interesting.
-Starfish
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