But why must the future be fought?

Even before the events of September 11, 2001, human culture had entered a dark period. Faced with the millenium, Spaceship Earth and its bumbling inhabitants faced unanswerable questions. Cynical wags, overpaid critical theorists, and television pundits - i.e., postmodernists - seem to think that nothing we know has any lasting value. For them, even the most moving artistic statement or historical experience is reducible to an ironic linguistic dilemma. Meanwhile, lawmakers, politicians, and roustabouts on the right and the left - i.e., modernists - seem bent on pushing all of humanity into the cramped quarters of their ideological crematoria with the help of high-tech weaponry.

To battle the future's questions of meaning and meaninglessness, Edie Sedgwick offers a simple prescription:

GO TO THE MOVIES.

 

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