The gap between rich and poor is widening in this land of the homeless and the imprisoned. Anger rises and massive denial, cornerstone of the system's survival, is now at least having a troubled sleep. But the social landscape seems frozen and the pain of youth is perhaps the greatest of all. Teen suicide is the response of a growing number who evidently cannot imagine maturity in such a place as this. The overwhelming pervasive culture is a fast-food one, bereft of substance or promise.
Postmodernism advertises itself as pluralistic, tolerant, and non-dogmatic.
In practice it is a superficial, fast-forward, deliberately confused, fragmented, media obsessed, illiterate, fatalistic, uncritical excrescence, indifferent to questions of origins, agency, history or causation. It questions nothing of importance and is the perfect expression of a setup that is stupid and dying and wants to take us with it. Attention getting, easily digested images and phrases distract one from the fact that this horror show of domination is precisely held together by such entertaining, easily digested images and phrases. Even the grossest failures of society can be used to try to narcoticize its subjects, as with the case of violence, a source of endless diversion. We are titillated by the representation of what at the same time is threatening, suggesting that boredom is an even worse torment than fear.