Epic Fail

Every TV show around you makes references to other TV shows and movies.  They are full of jokes referring to current flash in the pan celebrities some of whom may wash out before you are done reading this.  Within the generational context, these are tantamount to Inside Jokes.

This stems partly from a sense of being unanchored.  Chaos exists in our current world in a multitude different ways.  But considered individually they all appear unworthy of defining an entire epoch.  We are too easily distracted and at a loss to prioritize.  So we are an age defined by several things but nothing really stands out.  

To Quote Tyler Durden “We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression…”  We have become these feckless and cynical creatures, drifting rudderless, allowing ourselves to be fed on a steady junk diet of pop culture.  Ironically, reading and watching about purposeful heroes and antiheroes who do anything but drift; pitting our one lives against those with double lives.

And so we anchor and chain to each other, blind leading the blind.  But there will always be the risk that everything we claim to stand for, everything that we identify ourselves with will fade away, in one big domino chain reaction, each cultural anchor losing significance and therefore, dragging everything around it with itself.