In order to analyze an American image, one must analyze American images: lucid explorations of conflict, hardship, selfhood, merriment, strife, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
If Slavoj Žižek were to find out I was using his 2002 book, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," to prove that aliens exist peacefully, he would view my efforts as my own passion for the Real.
In a renewal of intention behind existing objects of the past, who is the iconoclast? The one that does not ascribe new meaning because time has passed or the one that does?
Life is absurd. We are born into a world without a clear reason and we must play silly little games and perform trivial roles in order to be accepted into said world. And, in the end, we disappear.
How do humans confront their own suffering? Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lie in A Nonmoral Sense" and Dostoevsky’s "Notes from Underground" provide two models.