Wow this is a very interesting topic. At first I thought it was a little ridiculous but as I continued to read the article I began to agree with it. The idea of our mind’s being perfected and trained so that our competence becomes more important than our notion is realistically true and all of our actions speak to agree with this idea. Our decisions and beliefs support this theory because of the standard that we place technology in today’s society. For instance, when we think of labor, in our minds it becomes the worst thing possible. An easy escape is what we look for and if we get the opportunity to perfect it then it becomes a habit. For instance, the article states, “What we are all looking for, however, is the ready-made, competent man; the man whom some one else has trained. It is only when we fully realize that our duty, as well as our opportunity, lies in systematically cooperating to train and to make this competent man, instead of in hunting for a man whom some one else has trained, that we shall be on the road to national efficiency.” He explains in this claim that we are always trying to discover something that can benefit us in anyway possible because we continue to diminish the mind with lower ideas and standards every day. We want someone to do for us what we can and we’d rather have our problems neat and tidied up and most of all being dealt with by someone else than doing it ourselves. So thus, this idea that google and the internet is controlling our minds by simply renewing rather than creating is something I do agree with because we can not plead that our motifs differ from it when our actions exemplify the complete opposing side.

Well to start off, the video we saw in class on Friday was very interesting. Although the video was just based on facts it was still an eye opener to the reality of this "post post-modernism" view. The article by Alan Kirby is a further detail of this perception that human knowledge may exceed to the extremity if uncontrollable measures. For instance after watching the video, I got idea of this evil view that we Americans bring upon ourselves. We know far more than even twenty years ago could only dream of knowing. Our world is industrializing itself to the point where things of concrete manner will exceed to know more than we could ever learn or discover. Because humans have the ability to discover the many wonders among our people we our taking advantage of our own ability, knowledge and the way we think will soon become what we once thought. The scary thing about this idea that the video provides o's that the video is merely facts, all it is telling us is things that are actually happening in this world and how it compares to the way the world once work and the way we reacted to what we knew. The article however provides a view of a "psuedo modernism" view. In kirby's article, he states, "the Internet and it's use define and dominate psuedo modernism, the new era has also seen the revamping of older forms along it's lines." this is explaining that we are making better what we already know. For example, this view is explaining the phenomenon that we make better what we see as important. Our knowledge can be perceived as evil because we our not using it for beneficial circumstances but to outsmart the way we think today which will ultimately weaken our society when this new world once begins to exist. I think this view is very interesting and the idea of this post postmodernism or as Alan Kirby says pseudo modernism is ultimately an explanation to why we make our exceeding knowledge to discover unecessary and concrete ideas exceptional.   

Okay, so beginning the read on Cat’s cradle is actually a little bit enjoyable. I am pretty interested in what is going to happen and it is actually an easy read. My opinion on the book thus far is that Jonah being a bokononist, already prevails as a mere example of Newton Hoenikker’s father. The theory of bokononism preludes to postmodernism very well. The idea that there are actually people who are in your life for no apparent reason, that convey absolutely no significance, is a little absurd. For instance, in the parable of chapter 3 Bokonon writes, “I once knew an Episcopalian lady in Newport… The lady claimed to understand God and his ways of working perfectly. She could not understand why anyone should be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be. And yet when I showed her a blueprint of the doghouse I proposed to build she said to me, ‘I’m sorry but I never could read one of those things.’… She was a fool and so am I and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is doing.” This is relative to postmodernism by the idea of religion. For example on page 28 of postmodernism text it states, “Reject religious authority!... Let reason unlock the laws of nature and usher in the optimistic age!” The bokononist view, just like the postmodern view, is stating to not follow religious influence because the truths we follow are all shameless lies. There is no point in intending to discover the works of nature through God because there is no proven truth in what anyone believes in. In this view how can anything be proven to be truth, or the works of god for arguments sake, without any lies to compare it to? This book is very interesting and I look forward to discovering the relation to more postmodern text through this novel and also to discover the conclusion of Jonah’s novel.