According to Eagleton its nothing else but sex and writing about everyday life. This piece is about theory not being innovative anymore, and how this modern culture has taken over and killed the intellect. How we are still using the ‘old’ wisdom, and not producing anything new, how there are no thinkers in todays world anymore. He is also mentioning that he believes the future has to change, and “…the new century will in time give birth to its own clutch of gurus. For the moment, however, we are still trading on the past…” He is explaining how this works generation after generation, the new ones are usually developing the original ideas, adding to them, criticise them and apply them, but we have a harder time, as the previous one seemed to answer all the questions?
So is that why we are the non-thinking generation, who can’t put down our ipods, who are just here to consume and ignore what’s happening in the world. We are just all about sex and don’t know anything about the big theorist, and whoever has, is regarded as a nerd for having heard about them.
I hope that is not true, Sex was always there, and always will be. In Art, in Philosophy and in Theory. Maybe today we are just more open about it. Also, coming from Hungary, a country that is world-wide famous about its porn industry, I can say its huge money-making business… Nevertheless, we have to keep in mind, that our generation is all about money, money and more money.
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
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