Deliberate Alienation: Surrealism and Magical Realism Critical thinking

upset Alienation Surrealism and Magical Realism Critical thinking is a enormous thing. At least, that seems to be a popular opinion. We live in an get along where people are willing to look to anyone but themselves for advice on what they should think. or else than figure out what their own opinions are, they trust the thinly-veiled slant of the television newscasters, the politics-masquerading-as-reporting of magazines handle Time and Newsweek. There are fashion shows and magazines that tell you what you think is stylish. Children in grade school and high school are actually demoralized from thinking differently from their peers or from their teachers. Even television commercials or depute readings in school that encourage positive behavior are solo promoting this phenomenon of mental laziness whether people are told to think good things or told to think bad things is unimportant either fashion theyre still not doing their own thinking. Lest we become a culture of zombies, i t seems important somehow to ensure this disturbing trend. But how to combat this kind of apathy? Any ingathering to the brain-dead must require them to use that very organ which they are allowing to atrophy. by chance some shock therapy is in order. Theres a reason our language contains the develop to slap some sense into someone. I propose that the best way to cure such mental apathy is to attack it. By presenting the soulfulness with an apparent reality which contradicts or prevents what s/he is familiar or comfortable with, one would force him/her to spend the necessary cognitive parkway to correct or reconcile the discrepancy, or risk existing in an utterly absurd, impossible, and nonsensical world. Purposely inducing cognitive dissonance may be the best... ...e Old Man and the Wormhole. Available online http//justice.loyola.edu/mcoffey/ce/wormhole.html , may 9, 2000. Beckett, Samuel. delay For Godot. (New York Grove Press, 1956.) Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. (New Y ork Grove Press, 1962.) Garca Mrquez, Gabriel, trans. Gregory Rabassa. One Hundred historic period of Solitude. (New York Harper & Row, 1998.) Magritte, Ren. Painting Le Prtre Mari (The Married Priest). 1961. Available online http//www.magritte.com/3_detail.cfm?ID=253 , May 9, 2000. OBrien, Dan. Borges Rides the Cyclone. In Ketchin, Susan, and Neil Giordano, eds. 25 and Under/Fiction. (New York W. W. Norton and Company, 1997.) Sartre, Jean-Paul, trans. S. W. Allen. Black Orpheus. (Paris Prsence Africaine, 1948.) Sartre, Jean-Paul, trans. Lloyd Alexander. The Wall. (New York New Directions publishing Corporation, 1975.)