Post modernity

I was riding in my car listening on the radio to NPR and the guest on the show was California's poet laureate. He was saying tnat he never bought into the modern or post-modern identity which he found to be too dark. Modern, post-modern, generations x and why are we so self obsessed that every ten years we have to redefine ourselves culturally and philosophically?

Because in fact we are still in the existential period, and have fixated on the need to question who we are. So let's just call it that, existentialism, and forget all those other cliches. And let's try get over the self obsession. Self examination is OK, but need not and should not be so introverted as to reject anything larger than ourselves to meaure ourselves against.

Assuming there is a God, we can not assume creation was purposeless. The divination of and devotion to that purpose is enlightenment. Assuming there is not a God is foolish in light of the spiritualization of matter which has progressed through aeons and epochs. Clearly God is calling, pulling us toward him. Whether we try to hasten or impede or declare our indifference to the redemption of the world is the criteria which we best use to define our condition.

There, I hope that helps.