The main thing that stuck out to me was the fact that we watched this entire video about the huge excess of data and knowledge we have that is constantly becoming obsolete (which makes it seem like most of it was meaningless facts) and at the very end of the video the only conclusion there is is the question "what does it mean?". So even the video itself was a five min long presentation of facts and statistics and analogies with no conclusive meaning. Its great that we're in an age where so much knowledge is at hand but i think the big problem is that we've gone overboard and created insubstantial facts that naturally fall out of date in years.
Following this thought it seems like this is just another phase of humanity looking for something to base society off of. For example for along time we based society off religion. We managed to go overboard with this however with such atrocities as witch-burning and the countless crusades. When this overload of religion failed us we turned to science. As we've already discussed there was a lot of hope that science would lead us to a utopia. But, even science failed because again, we could not control ourselves and made horrible creations such as the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb.
So, after science failed us we entered a phrase of postmodernism, this involved such activities as de-centering which, as we discussed in class, can take any text and give it countless meanings . While this was good at first because it opened our minds to new possibilities we again took it too far. Literature was de-centered to the point where it could not reach any conclusion and no firm foundation could be made for an argument. This led into post-post modernism, which is essentially just an overboard exaggeration of postmodernism. Now, in pseudo modernism there is no meaning but that which the perceiver gives something and, unfortunately it leans toward meaningless and shallowness. Hence the huge quantity of information that someone somewhere deemed necessary but ultimately proved insignificant.
So, moral of the story, people always search for something to base their lives on, after finding it they take it too far ,whether it be religion, science, de-centering, or knowledge, and make that center of their lives unreliable.
