Introduction

MENTAL GROUND ZERO: The location where one visualises oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb; frequently, a shopping mall. - from Douglas Coupland, Generation X.

In-directly this play on words by Coupland emphasises the growing anxiety of the political mess that is cast upon any critical thinker in the modern world.


The initial ideas for our group presentation focus around issues such as multiculturalism and politics of recognition, and how they are contradicted in modern politics today.

The major powers of the worlds economy, and therefore of humanity, advocate moral objectives, which, we as its citizens not only subscribe to, but promote. We, its proletariat, are 'junkies' for our own comfort, blindly skipping TV channels to avoid the truth - we lie on a bed of hypocrisy drugged on the effect by a media that feeds us detached lucid dreams. It is not real.

This is of course just my observation, but I think it could be an interesting topic to explore - to look objectively at ways to act upon those values of democracy we promote by acceptance of the Status-Que.

The dictionary definition of 'plateau' is "stage when there is no change or development".

Peace
Christopher Jones