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Sunday, August 12, 2001
Matt and I will be married one day, and have incredibly brilliant, articulate children (their father) with long hair and no sense of direction (their mother). This is one of the reasons I have decided this will be so:
The incredible power of information and imagery in the postmodern age to inflate the common to the superhuman by virtue of mass exposure (5), can also serve to reduce the superhuman. The ubiquity of television and computer screens serves as an apt metaphor for the compression of three-dimensional reality into two dimensions: everything is of equal worth because everything appears on the same screen, with the same depth, size, shape. Everything can be contained in the tiny box, every god, every man.(6) So why is one god better than another? This kid is seventeen folks. He makes me want to laugh and weep. When he gets home I will get down on my hands and knees like the groupie that I am and beg him to come see Hedwig again with me. I will be his Penny Lane, except without the blonde hair and charisma. |