Smith, Christina L.

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ManuscriptsCbange and Tradition: An Independent StudyWhite noise. Anxious thoughts that the X-Files instilled andhow the modem world became post-modern in a forward marchkind of way. The signal was the end of innocence throughscience and capitalism. Something not progress----the oppositeof progress-Planet of the Apes-a stationary condition after theWar. It was fun while it lasted said the cartoon character as hedevolved back into the sea life form from which we came.Imperialism has ended and neostuff has been instituted. What'sneostuff! Euphoria and Saddham Hussein in bad news abroad.Downsizing brought about more -isms=-a term for the 90s, Isuppose. Production with robotics--part-time at McDonalds--whichever comes first, right? Prosperity on the sunrise signifiestwo major modern ages: cultural -isms and cultural post -isms.But don't forget plagiarisms and Madonna. How do they fit in?Exploitation, perhaps. Does any of this make sense? Don't youknow that triumph in advertising equals MTV-the X-Men andthe time machine. Symbolism ends with Beavis and Buttheadand kinetoscopes-Industrial Revolution again? Jackson Pollackcreated the world when he flung the color wheel at the whitecanvas. And somewhere in there, diseased geniuses suffer from10Sprin8'97a mental epidemic-the Black Death of this decade. Sources ofprogress equals social distress, suicide. Self-murder is an urbanproblem. Boomerangs zoom upward and onward and yet readregression-full throttle forward to life in the freezing ocean-the sunset, the dying light of the world darkened in an eclipse.Hoping for a miraculous invention-a catastrophic effect skepti-cally known as progress=-the trees and air are gone.Mars awaits.Christina L. Smith11

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