‘Nothing BIG has happened to our generation’ is a conversation I have had with friends, so when Eagleton says that we are a generation that ‘remembers little of world-shaking political importance’ he could be right. Although I cannot remember what I have not experienced, I have seen the credit crunch and a wave of technological gadgetry but these are nothing compared to the wonder and excitement of watching, say, the first moon landing. How I would have loved to be a part of that and to feel that it was all just the beginning, but we have stumbled. I like the rest of my generation I hope, itch for the progress, the next BIG thing, the shift in our basic way of life, but are we all lazily expecting someone else to do it? I do not agree with Eagleton that we cannot ‘imagine an alternative to the present’ we do, we just don’t know where we are going, pulled in so many directions, constant threat of an apocalyptic climate change overhead. So we delve inward and study ourselves, where better to start? Is that not what Saussure and the rest were doing in the first place, looking for the underlying truth?
‘Nothing BIG has happened to our generation’ is a conversation I have had with friends, so when Eagleton says that we are a generation that ‘remembers little of world-shaking political importance’ he could be right. Although I cannot remember what I have not experienced, I have seen the credit crunch and a wave of technological gadgetry but these are nothing compared to the wonder and excitement of watching, say, the first moon landing. How I would have loved to be a part of that and to feel that it was all just the beginning, but we have stumbled. I like the rest of my generation I hope, itch for the progress, the next BIG thing, the shift in our basic way of life, but are we all lazily expecting someone else to do it? I do not agree with Eagleton that we cannot ‘imagine an alternative to the present’ we do, we just don’t know where we are going, pulled in so many directions, constant threat of an apocalyptic climate change overhead. So we delve inward and study ourselves, where better to start? Is that not what Saussure and the rest were doing in the first place, looking for the underlying truth?
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