Thursday, November 30, 2006

Fiction crises

How do we approach personal questions of identity, faith and worldview? We live in a global pluralistic society with in this the individual and personal are imperative. Culture takes on global mediated themes. As mass culture searches out controllable sub culture becomes ever more important. Perhaps the personal and the historical are lost in the fictional, as the fictional bears as much relevance to truth. Conte xt and experience revaluate the fictional. As we pose are experience in the real as the fictional, documenting it.

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue."

'Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai' by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

How dose the present exist within the documented, can we share experience, I believe we can, can we document the experience? I see to documented is to fictionalize, though to fictionalize serves a purpose in its self. Fictionalization is a begin point of a new experience, if we lose the physical experience within the fiction, the is a constructional fictional crises, it could well be the that we are beginning to experience this crises. When dose revolution become revolution in its manifesto or in the street movement. One can not exist without the other, it seems street movement are losing the purpose and manifestoes are becoming more generic. The people have a voice, more intensively than has existed in mankind but have they got something to say, it seems not. Take You Tube and Myspace as examples. Thousands of viewer a mind blowing audience, but content is not there, the masses may have a voice now but do we really want to here what they have to say or do they even have anything to say.

So how dose the present moment exist within the documented?

2 Comments:

At 4:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey sambo rambo cross-exambo! delighted to see your blog, but more than a little confussed by this post...except for the present moment quote, the rest is fiction! :)

 
At 11:27 AM, Blogger Alex Horton said...

Nowadays it seems everybody is angry about the state of the world but all they do is blame each other and shout and disrupt things without ever turning to the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the universe, for there answers.

 

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