I want to briefly revisit Eagleton’s ‘After Theory’.
I am now feeling more sympathetic towards Eagleton’s nostalgia of a time where thinking was deeper and moving forward. Today there isn’t the depth of thinking that there was in the past. Everything is quick and concerned with everyday life, the here and now. This is causing us to ignore the real questions like famine and poverty – we distract ourselves with investigations into ‘Friends’ and ‘S&M’, and we are ignoring the real.
I still feel that everyone has the right to look closely into the topics that they personally find interesting, but I agree with Eagleton that it is sad that many people immerse themselves in these studies.
We are too happy to accept what has been put in front of us as the truth and only way to operate. We need to keep moving forward and we cannot settle. We need to get underneath the surface and discover what are the myths that we live under.
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