Our Culture - A Postmodern Critique

The educational system, at least in the US, presents an appearance that there exists unified field of knowledge, but the diligent pursuit of such unification has been abandoned decades ago.

Christianity is virtually eliminated from all serious inquiry, for emotional reasons, yet one professed reason to not examine it is that it is an emotion based solution to life's stresses.

Those who profess belief in God have few aspects of their life oriented by such belief.

As the contemporary band's name indicates, there is a rage against the machine, however if humanity is mechanical and without self-determination, then such rage is solely biochemical.

Materializm is the dominant religion, yet our media uses various commentary for or against morality as an attraction to sell the religion to the masses. This is the case only because there is a tight correlation between media source ownership and the desire for accumulation of economic resources.

 

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