Addressing the dilemma

In a world dominated by advertising, consumer fetishism, manufactured values, media hype, truth mongers, irrational opinions and dictates from on high, sometimes the best statement a writer can make is no statement at all.

We are all inundated with information, every day bombarded. But sometimes all this created vastity collapses into a straight line.

Josh Wickerham This post-modern world

Our reality is brimming with technology, proclamations, dominant ideas, gadgets, people, the vast intricacies of life, peripheral intelligences, and so much information.

Sometimes the machinery is too much.

We are the unfound children of an uninspired future, lost and without a set path. For we live in Plato's cave of shadows, a world full of smoke and mirrors.

This white space on your right is not for lack of ideas to fill newspaper space.

It is a fleeting stab at the postmodern dilemma.

How can we live in a world so full of objects, ideas and words yet so lacking in meaning?

White noise can be beautiful.

I am sounding a clarion call for the reclamation of the soul.

Try to examine your own thoughts for a change, fellow cave dwellers.

Just don't let yourself implode.

- Josh Wickerham can be reached via e-mail at jwickerh@umich.edu.

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