A mirror reflecting itself

Andy Warhol called post modernism art a mirror reflecting itself. The commodification and commercialization of art and creativity has reached its end I think. I believe we are indeed on the brink of a new social age, as some other post modernists suggest. Repetition has run its course, the mirrors are no longer receiving light. Perhaps this is why Melissa was so confused in her blog. The current state of the country's communications/ reproduction abilities is taking away creative impulses of our own. I think this last chapter was a great way to conclude the book; it's a sad ending but true nonetheless. I don't believe that since it is 'easier' to purchase a more precise replica of the Mona Lisa that artists are losing their focus. It's you and I, and all the other creatives not named Van Gogh, Warhol, Da Vinci or Renoir that are being repressed, maybe, by the constant stream of monotonous images we now see as "art." Just a thought, and I may be completely off base here, but when this book stirs the notion of computer creativity, doesn't that raise some eyebrows? It did mine.

I think our latest battle of opposing ideologies in the world, specifically regarding the Middle East, will lead to one of two outcomes (on a social level) A: a complete loss of faith in religion, and ultimately a loss of an altered state and creativity; or B: an endless war which will prolong the current state of social progression being held in suspension indefinitely.

Maybe I'm being too dramatic, but either way, our roads to creativity are being tweaked daily through the course of time, through economic, political and social current shifts, and from our own reflections in the mirrors of our minds.