During the time of modernism, people looked for one thing..........the truth. They wanted to know how this was made or if people we hear about in legends really existed. Post-modernism is usually where people are given the truth and they have to decide now whether they choose to believe it or not. They must put their own knowledge into consideration and come up with their own ideas. This not just a personal thing, but also a universal thing.
In Cat’s Cradle we see that this book is post-modernism because they are searching for a truth and they are given all this information, now they must put it all together to believe the “real truth”. They can be given any kind of information and for all they know it’s fake. For example, San Lorenzo had happy people in it but it was full of lies, “ McCabe dreamed of making it a utopia” (Vonnegut). We have already discussed this in class before. Utopias do not exist, they just cannot be really made at all. Here in San Lorenzo there are poor people on the island but they are all joyful of it. They are told that people live like this, are happy. The people do not know any better but to believe their leaders. In our society we would want to know that there was a better way of living if people lived in poverty. The thing is though, we do know of a better way of living, but some of us cannot change our status. In the novel there are people who live in a better society, but they cannot share it with the people on the island because it would be useless. They would just not believe all this blasphemy that is being told to them about the way they live.
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ReplyDeleteThis post was very nice I must say myself. At first I did not think that you had it in you Chris but I like the ways that you connect Cats Cradle and Postmodernism. I only got caught up on one of the points though. When ever you stated "we do know of a better way of living, but some of us can not change our status" I got pretty confused. I do not really understand or believe that we know a better way of living. If we do...what is it? But the way I look at it the best way of living for people today is to get money, be famous, and be popular. People do not see past that, hence the reason I do not think people today know a better more moral way of living. But the rest of this post was very well said. Exceot for again at the end it seems like you really just cut yourself off. I know it was probably about the wordcount. You saw that you only needed a couple more words so you just cut it off. I catch myself doing that same thing so often also. I believe that everyone might need some work on that because we are just trying to feel space I think...
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