Futuristic Definitude

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Futuristic Definitude

Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz has been hailed as a representation of the "long future of mankind as a recapitulation of its own long past."  Milan Kundera claims that kitsch is the passing off of thoughtless concepts as art, and that the non-thought of received ideas can be very misleading.  In my opinion, these two ideologies, while taught together, conflict harshly in practice and cloud the issue of whether or not we can ever become modern.
     For centuries mankind has attempted, through the use of the novel, to predict the future of civilization, while exposing inner human values.  Since Revelations, religious factions have made efforts to persuade the general population that a specific deity will lead His people to a paradise, or a Hell of sorts, as He sees appropriate.  When reading any work of this nature, as the Canticle clearly is, we must take the motive(s) of the author into consideration, before we can come to a final conclusion.
     The feeling I sensed after the final page, is that Miller's goals in producing this work are numerous as well as vague.  My first impression was that the Canticle is an attempt at finishing, if not just prolonging the Bible.  The titles for these three new books could be The Book of Francis, The Book of Dom Pedro, and The Book of Zerchi.  The religious biases that are prevalent in almost every personal interaction within the book make it hard to decipher what is Human and what is God as far as decisions and opinions.
The idea of autonomous individuals, as taught in Cultural Analysis, stands in direct opposition to the lack of independence demonstrated by members of the Monastery.  Where the Church and the Brothers of AOL represent that which is modern and advanced after the Simplification, there is an obvious lack of autonomy displayed when a lifetime of actions have been devoted to God.  Albeit, the decision to devote oneself to God is an autonomous one, that independence is forfeited shortly.  This idea is intrinsic of the servant status attained upon entering the Order.
The whole process of writing in the future also has vagueness in and of itself.  The simple fact that no one knows what is going to happen makes accuracy an impossibility here.  Thus, another motive of the author becomes apparent.  Like Nostradamus and the recent rise in tele-psychics, one way of immortalizing ones own name, is by predicting the future with a reasonable amount of believability.  Since we...

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