The idea of Post Modernity has been a difficult idea for me to grasp. It seems to be the state in which we are living in, and have been in for a while. With the proliferation of Capitalism along with the explosion of technology and media we usher in a post industrial society of people disconnected from classic ideas of purpose and disconnected almost entirely from nature itself.
Our pursuit of civilization has brought about hunger not for good nature, wholeness, or egalitarian living, but a hunger for material riches and unsustainable growth. This pursuit has no philosophical grounding and thereby no moral foundations. So, in this pursuit the individual thinks not of any concerns beyond their own idea of successes and security. As technological advances grow we lose more and more of our innate abilities and instincts, we become more and more separated from ourselves and nature. Our selves become an image built by media. Our institutions press us into their ideas of 'citizen' and consumer. Our nature is the concrete canyons and asphalt grids that we overlay our trees and grasslands.
Post Modernism must be our trek from humanity and nature into becoming a race of technologically dependent cyber-organisms. Our connection in nature that transcendentalist claimed is becoming a connection through technology. Collectively our society is dependent on conglomerated corporations for our food and provisions of survival. In this state stratification is necessary to keep 'order' and the supply chains going that prevent our society from deteriorating, quickly, into a fight for scarce resources.
Yes, in this state, propaganda is rampant; art is not supported and loses its integrity; technology drives--everything now; people are becoming more and more alienated from nature; food is a business commodity; and education is losing out to ideologies and apathy. Is this the post modern condition? Is it the dehumanization of our being? Is it the dominance of technology over nature?
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