Rubber Soul, 2/5/09

Total metanarratives. Lyotard says we should wage war on them and destroy them. According to Lyotard, they are structures that offer certain moral codes to live by and cause people to not think for themselves. I think it's important for everyone to be taught to question everything, but some people just aren't taught that. And these are the people you'd be waging war with. Religious folks don't want to hear that everything they know and devote their lives to is a farce, American Dreamers don't want to believe that merit really doesn't matter in succeeding in life when their nation's political system is designed to benefit the wealthy instead of the majority of the population. I definitely believe that we are evolving. Higher levels of consciousness are reaching further and further in this age of globalization. Eventually more and more people will stop following and start thinking for themselves, but I don't think waging a war with the ones that don't want to believe is the answer. My father is a psychologist and helps people through the use of hypnosis. He says that the hypnosis only works for the people who are willing to believe it's going to help them. We can find better means in getting the word out, but not in a war-like manner. Even though most of our war's are due to total metanarratives, I'm not convinced that waging more is the answer.