BiegieGo, Jencks

Does every generation have its own set of rules that the society follows? According to Charles Jencks, “The only escape from rule-governed art is to suppress from consciousness the canon’s behind one’s creativity—hardly a comforting liberation.” So the rule that keeps people from moving on is their sacredness of hiding their creativity from the world. Although I feel our society does have some rule I was immerged into a film the other night called “taxi to the dark side.” Before the film was don’t I sat thinking to myself that every US military person goes off to work knowing how to handle themselves in that line of duty. I was all wrong. The documentary showed us that there are many people that have been sent off to war with no or little experience in training. Those are just simple rules that have been thrown out the window when we look at our military, the people who are representing us in different parts of the world.
At this point I am very confused on what to write next. One minute I feel like I understand the reading and the next I feel I have no clue of where it is leading me.

“Another credible subject is the historical continuum and the relation between the past and the present.” Does our society look at the past to make the present better or do we just skip the present and look at the future? Sometimes I feel like we just skip the present and look at the future because our society moves to fast. I think we need to focus on the here and now and not so much the future.