The values ascension?

Tracing a parallel with Eagleton's English Ascension perspective with our reality, it is not difficult to realize that the values that once were concentrated in a specific society, for example the English society, were abruptally pulverized by the globalization phenomenon. The boundaries that limited the meaning of Literature itselft no longer existed, consequently breaking all the common sense of what Literature was. We witnessed passively, during the late 80's and the 90's, reaching the apogee in the first decade of this century, the unparallel and uncontrolled values metamorphosis directly proportional to the integration of the communication systems. The more the world was connected, the more acute were the values changes and, not completely harmless they were.

The mass communication vehicles promoted values globally that were not completely aligned with the social common sense of a greater good (God! I hate using this expression), but the velocity of information access compared to the velocity of the compilation of these information to create new values did not give time to society to fully or correctly assimilate them. In simple words, we were being fed more food than we, as a society, were able to eat or process implicating inevitably in value losses. How critic they were, we are not yet capable of measuring because the modus operandi is still the same. How can one evaluate the effects of some specific food in one's system, if he or she is constantly being fed at higher rates?

Whether or not this is the natural course of evolution leading us to a better world, we do not know and we never will: evolution and progress is a one roller coster ride, whether good or don't.