What's Next?

Well, I have received my Master of Fine Arts’ Art & Technology” graduate degree.

Someone asked, “What’s next?” My reply was facetious “I want to travel the US and see America, so I am going to truck driving school.” I found this to be an interesting question. I decided to elaborate my observations and yes it may come off a bit biased since I have recently taken an interest to Mihai Nadin’s “The Civilization of Illiteracy.”
While not wanting to insult the intelligence of those who risk the hazards of the road to bring us needed materials and sustenance for our consuming pleasures. I do want to point out the fact that we have become a nation of illiterates. Now I know that no one likes or wants to be considered an illiterate, but in this case you must consider the following.
What are you going to do now (if psychoanalyzed) probably translates into, what are you going to do to make money? Should we be so obsessed with money? Sure we need it to survive and maintain our existence. After all, we get put on the street if we don’t pay our rent, our utilities get cut off, or you can die from the lack of medical attention. But where is the positive enforcement to continue being a scholar? After all a job is the by-product of an education not vice versa. If you are seeking a job in a particular field you attend vocational training.
To quote Dr. Mihai Nadin “the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (clichés used in speeches, canned messages); and general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.” I don’t think anyone really understands the necessary character in the decline of literacy, but there will be life after.
Here is a prime example of my own difficulty with written language. It has taken me an hour to organize my thoughts (while watching a cooking show on KERA) to complete this simple expression of observations to the question “what are you going to do now?”