Thinking About: Fitting In

I don't know who Robert Jenson is, but apparently he said this:

Scripture's story is not part of some larger narrative; it is itself the larger narrative of which all other true narratives are parts.

In contrast to that, a few days ago I ran across the lyrics of a song called "I'm So Postmodern" by someone called the Bedroom Philosopher which is funny and clever but describing something completely different than the above:

I’m so postmodern that I just don’t talk anymore,
I wear different coloured t-shirts according to my mood.

I’m so postmodern that I breakdance in waiting rooms,
play Yahtzee in nightclubs, at three in the afternoon.

I’m so postmodern I only go on dates that last thirteen minutes,
via walky talky, while hiding under the bed.

I’m so postmodern I went home and typed up everything you said,
and printed it out in wingdings, and gave it back to you.

I’m so postmodern I held an art exhibition -
a Chuppa Chup stuck to a swimming cap, and no one was invited.

I’m so postmodern I only think in palindromic haikus -
(insert palindromic haiku).

I’m so postmodern that I cut off all my hair,
and knitted it into a beanie, and threw it off a bridge.

I’m so postmodern I wrote a letter to the council
…I think it was ‘M.’

I’m so postmodern I write four thousand-word essays
on the cultural significance of party pies.

I’m so postmodern I wrote a trilogy of novels
from the perspective of a possum that Jesus patted once.

There's something in the air these days that loves the random and the nonsensical, the death of reason, something in the culture, in the extreme sports, in the music, in the arts, that tells us that there is no meaning outside of the now, this moment, this feeling.

I can sense it in myself and so I am trying to learn to be aware of the larger story, conscious of the the Great Narrative of which I am a part. Through each choice, each word and action, I am writing the story of my life. This is life, not like a grain of sand in an endless desert, but like a brick in a wall or a cobblestone in the street.

Johnny Knoxville is entertaining but I'd rather be a part of something bigger than me.