Where You Are

If you can be unhappy anywhere, can you be happy anywhere?

My Insides Are Awake

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

- Carl Jung

Why So Ironic?

I read an article in Relevant Magazine recently on the nature of our generation being uncharacteristically sarcastic and culturally ironic:

"There are reasons for our embrace of irony.  We grew up in a world where earnestness failed us.  Cold Wars were waged very sincerely, ideologies were bandied about with the best of intentions.  Our parents married and divorced in all earnestness, and wide swaths of American homes were devastated by the sort of domestic disharmony that shattered any pretension of white-picket-fence-perfection.  Meanwhile, we grew up in a constant flux of advertising and brand messaging.  The conglomerates cornered the markets, the ad agencies figured us out and MTV sucked our souls dry.  But we also became savvy, and with the Internet and all the wiki-democratization it offered, it became easier to see through the charades of various culture industries and power-wielding hegemonies.  Flaws were exposed, seedy schemes revealed amid the formerly shrouded machinations of "the man."  Nothing was sacred anymore, and all was ridiculous." - by Brett McCracken, The Rise of the Ironic Class, Relevant Magazine, May-June 2009