Matthews Overdue Central Proposition

This is my second go, i wrote this without looking at my first go as a refference at all, so some amalgimation may happen before I get my final 'Working Central Proposition'. But my comment on Roland Kelts article has help me to identify a point of focus for my working paper. I hope that that focus comes through in my central proposition...



This research project will examine the weakening of the self in modern society. Focusing upon the Millennial generation's self declared weak morality [PEW research, 2010] and in the rise of Otaku culture, this paper will attempt to examine where our strengths and weakness now lie. Rather than argue that we must live as repressed and virtuous saints, inhuman and lost to martyrdom, or live as animals of instinct, disregarding man-kinds history and anthropology, this project will explore, at its root, sensible courses of action towards the continued survival of man-kind.

"The University has incubated a certain typeface of mind. It is one indentured to citation, the approbations of authorities, and slavishness to the ideas in vogue. I think even clever young people, aspirant writers, poets, artists and the like, fall into the webs of trendiness they think they are hacking through as jungle vine with a machete. It is this coyish build of mind, this ineffectual nature and reliance on moot causes, that is seeding a generation of intellectuals who will all be equally impotent with the problems they pretend to face." [ Douglas Haddow, 2010, Adbusters #88: The Post - Post Modern Issue]

With a time limit being put on society to change and adapt enough to deliver our planets salvation, are claims of liberation and progress nothing more than time wasting, post modern anarchism's that expose the impotency of societies current ideology's? Are the intellectuals of the world caught in an eddy against this impotency? As we enter this new technologically driven paradigm do we have the mental strength to evolve our society accordingly?

This paper will propose that the liberation of censorship is no longer an admirable cause towards a more evolved society, but a weapon used to exploit and co-modify humanities shameful desires like the resources of our planet. This paper will also propose that the championing of moral erosion is nothing more than the corporate entity's desire to see themselves reflected in other legal entities that surround them, and by that I mean the public.