My last blog sort of touches on this topic already... I sorta went on a tangent last time, so perhaps ill talk about Cats Cradle instead of the Google thing directly. So you can check out my last blog if you want.
"We can see our forests vanishing, our water-powers going to waste," (Taylor). This reminds me so much of Cat's Cradle! Like hello! The whole end of the world thing?!?! The forests vanished and the water went to waste.... All because of ice-nine; all because of a thirst for knowledge and the temptation of men. We are our own worst enemies. Dr. Felix Hoenikker was in such a world of his own; in persuit of knowledge and only knowledge. That was his weakness. Once he made ice-nine, the rest of world had a new weakness. They could not handle the power of the weapon, just like Felix could not handle the power of knowledge. It's a vicious cycle that eventually ended the world! Pretty heavy huh?...
So I think Vonnegut structured the book that way on purpose. He seems to be sending a similar message like Taylor; the pros and cons of ever increasing technology. People are never going to be happy with what they have. Everyine is continuously going to want more and more and will not rest until there is something new to bsorb, something new to gawk at. Another vicious cycle.
Is there hope for us?? Can we ever be happy with the technology of the day? If not, can we handle what is to come??
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Post-Post Modernism??? What's Next?
Hmmmm.... okay, so i'm just now getting the hang of postmodern theories and now there's a next step?!
So the video we watched relating to these theories and technologies is quite mind boggling. But I can definitely believe it! There is just so much information out there and there are now so many ways to access it. Decades ago, the idea of the Internet was, WOW! And now it's just no big thang... So what is next"?? Someone is going to have to come up with a new way of organizing and accessing information. The Internet is great, but don't you think that some day it could get overwhelmed with information? That there will be so much to search through it will be inpossible to find what you need? And then when you did, how could you be sure it's true, when anyone and everyone can put their "information" on the world wide web? Just thinking about it is overwhelming... The many convenient ways we can access this information is awesome though. There's no way that everyone with Internet access can't find out the latest news, even without trying. However, it is a scary thought that everyone's lives revolve around this sort of technological lifestyle. From t.v. to ipods to cell phones and everything in between, the world is becoming less and less social. Well at least less and less physically social. Soon enough, people aren't even going to need to talk to each other face to face. Okay, that sounds a little extreme, like something we would find in one of our AP Lit novels, but you know what I mean....
So I pretty much got off on a tangent, but I hope you enjoyed my train of thought none the less.
So the video we watched relating to these theories and technologies is quite mind boggling. But I can definitely believe it! There is just so much information out there and there are now so many ways to access it. Decades ago, the idea of the Internet was, WOW! And now it's just no big thang... So what is next"?? Someone is going to have to come up with a new way of organizing and accessing information. The Internet is great, but don't you think that some day it could get overwhelmed with information? That there will be so much to search through it will be inpossible to find what you need? And then when you did, how could you be sure it's true, when anyone and everyone can put their "information" on the world wide web? Just thinking about it is overwhelming... The many convenient ways we can access this information is awesome though. There's no way that everyone with Internet access can't find out the latest news, even without trying. However, it is a scary thought that everyone's lives revolve around this sort of technological lifestyle. From t.v. to ipods to cell phones and everything in between, the world is becoming less and less social. Well at least less and less physically social. Soon enough, people aren't even going to need to talk to each other face to face. Okay, that sounds a little extreme, like something we would find in one of our AP Lit novels, but you know what I mean....
So I pretty much got off on a tangent, but I hope you enjoyed my train of thought none the less.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Circle of Life.......
Everybody has their preconceived notions about life and how it all is suppose to end up. In Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, there is a most peculiar idea about life. It takes a very postmodern stand and I find it very interesting...
"If you find your life tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons, that person may be a member of your karass," (ch.2). This whole idea of a karass can relate to the Lion King's "circle of life". Everybody is put on Earth to do God's bidding, but everybody helps or deters another person with everything that they do. It is almost overwhelming thinking that some random people could be very important figures in one's life... Postmodernists would find this idea of life very intriguing. Yes, it is true that one person can create a cause and effect type of thing in someone's life-say like bad manufacturing of a car could potentially create a future car accident- but it is something more to say that these things were meant to happen. The idea of Karass is almost like believing in fate. Fate is not too far off from what some people believe in, but it does veer off from the path of traditional thinking. Faith is a postmodern idea of expanding your mind to something that is hard to conceive, more than what the masses believe in.
These postmodern ideas bounce off of traditional thoughts and so called "facts" of the modern era, and they are stretched to new ideas and theories. These types of things can be seen in the first seven chapters of the novel. And one of the biggest postmodern ideas presented thus far is that of the religion explained above. Very interesting.... :)
"If you find your life tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons, that person may be a member of your karass," (ch.2). This whole idea of a karass can relate to the Lion King's "circle of life". Everybody is put on Earth to do God's bidding, but everybody helps or deters another person with everything that they do. It is almost overwhelming thinking that some random people could be very important figures in one's life... Postmodernists would find this idea of life very intriguing. Yes, it is true that one person can create a cause and effect type of thing in someone's life-say like bad manufacturing of a car could potentially create a future car accident- but it is something more to say that these things were meant to happen. The idea of Karass is almost like believing in fate. Fate is not too far off from what some people believe in, but it does veer off from the path of traditional thinking. Faith is a postmodern idea of expanding your mind to something that is hard to conceive, more than what the masses believe in.
These postmodern ideas bounce off of traditional thoughts and so called "facts" of the modern era, and they are stretched to new ideas and theories. These types of things can be seen in the first seven chapters of the novel. And one of the biggest postmodern ideas presented thus far is that of the religion explained above. Very interesting.... :)
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