tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691475593798852304.post2764870235192361081..comments2023-09-13T05:22:45.557-06:00Comments on Lynear Thinking: The demise of the great story never toldLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08152173630033912887noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1691475593798852304.post-81788586406147149942009-12-16T09:54:54.195-06:002009-12-16T09:54:54.195-06:00Contemporary journalism has fooled us into looking...Contemporary journalism has fooled us into looking to it for the truth, for the reflection of a world that we can comprehend and decipher.<br /> <br />Journalists, like the bloggers that are already replacing them, are just a minuscule part of a long line of oracles purporting to tell us what was, what is and what will be.<br /><br />In the western world, Jonathan Swift and Tolstoy and Homer and Moses and Hemingway and George Elliot and Sapho and Marshal Mcluhan and Milan Kundera. Satirists, storytellers, commentators and conveyors of information. They too had the franchise of their contemporary medias. <br /><br />Opine not for the lack of verisimilitude in the news media or in contemporary art. Rather, take the cue from those that live in the soundbite world and begin to see that reality is simply synthesis. <br /><br />Think of Picasso and how not one perspective is complete, or Roy Lichtenstein whose paintings turn into meaningless dots the more closely you examine them. <br /><br />L'enfer c'est les autres, but so too is life and experience and growth. <br /><br />Be critical and question everything, yes. But assimilate and absorb and synthesize everything around you. <br /><br />This "morphmosis" is what will sustain you and inseminate in you and your peers with what will germinate as history and understanding and meaning deep into vacuous future that we can never fathom.Windnsnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906008195127164560noreply@blogger.com