I was visiting family in Los Angeles and I had seen him the night before his death. It was only the second day of my visit; suffice it to say, the rest of my stay was consumed with grief and dealing with the loss.
Upon my return to Indiana, more upheaval awaited: I lost my job and began to question everything around me. Slowly I have embraced the idea that life in the modern world is constant trauma, feeding off of itself in various manifestations.
Of particular interest to me is how the tropes of traumatic response play out in mass media: the movies, TV shows, popular music, literature and Internet phenomenons that surround us and fit like puzzle pieces into the formula.
This is merely a brief introduction to the content I'm going to post. I have a lot of things swimming in my mind as of late and this is just the first step on my road to understanding what is happening not just to me personally but to all of us in the wake of a global pandemic and all that entails.
It will be a mix of fact, fiction, and fantasy. Don’t rely on it for statistical information. I’m not interested in constructing arguments or dismantling theories. These are merely my raw emotions tempered and distilled into prose. I hope people get something positive from it.
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