chapter 32

This chapter says the postmodern eye "gazes upon the world as if it were one vast variety show" but there is nothing wrong with that. The world is a variety show composed of many many talents, types of people, experiences and stories. Solomon goes on to say that the post modern eye perceives human events as being nonsensical. To say that the things that I do and accomplish and am currently working toward are nonsensical is not right. Not everything needs to be sorted into a perfectly pre-framed structure. I like a little chaos in my life. It says that narratives are to create meaning in the face of meaningless and to make sense of the senseless. This would be to say that what I'm doing is meaningless and senseless without being put into society's structure. This is completely wrong to me. I find sense and meaning in things in my own way. It goes on to say that in the postmodern eye "life is nothing more than a decentered, narrativeless course waiting for death-or for a nonexistent God who never comes." It's interesting to me that this was the end of Solomon's part of this chapter because that last line was I'm sure intended to gesture toward more modern people having no faith. However, this accusation does not get to me because I am an atheist and do not believe in God or a higher power anyway. So to say that my life is nothing and I'm just waiting to die and become nothing is ridiculous and depressing. I highly disagree because I can make a difference in this world that will matter even after I die.