Sven Birkert: Group Five "Wisdom": Ian Campbell, Jesus Garcia, Dylan Esser, Kyle Bovelay

Wisdom: the knowing not of facts but of truths about human nature and the process of life. Sven Birkerts claims that we’re not getting much out of the reading that we do today. We don’t think about it as in depth as the generations before, how this day and age only skim reads and never rereads, getting the most information and detail out of the text. That the words that were once used commonly, we tend to shy away from; truth, meaning, soul, and destiny. How all these expressive words describe the text, how it gives the text a deeper meaning, when we take the time to see the whole picture and each detail of the artists work. Comprehending the relation of parts, holding the reading and the details and facts together, this was the intention of the writer. To inspire the reader to take the facts and information and build off of it, creating a new form of knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom is seeing what is through facts, what is implied. Going in depth into the reading and not just summing up the information after paraphrasing the text. Seeing through the data, it requires something to see through to. How it inspires us to do something to see beyond and behind the text, to understand the deeper meaning, and how to comprehend the “soul” of the writer. Sven Birkerts targets the readers in hopes of inspiring them to work towards the old days of writing. And he hopes to inspire the readers of the older generations to change how they see the text. How the old words, soul and destiny, are not to be used in a soft manner and in a nostalgic view. To eliminate our habits now, of deflating the texting to avoid going into depth. This inspires the readers and any new writers to revert back to the philosophers of old, no longer shying away from the sense and feeling of wisdom and inadvertently away from the “life” of the text.