Waking Life

In Waking Life, the masterpiece from Richard Linklater, a group of students are in a room viewing a film with a Chimp narrating. Here is what he says:

"Our critique began as all critiques begin, with doubt. Doubt became our narrative. Ours was a quest for a new story: our own. And we grasped towards this new history driven by the suspicion that ordinary language couldn't tell it. Our past appeared frozen in the distance, and our every gesture and accent signified the negation of the Old World, and the reach for a new one. The way we lived created a new situation, one of exuberance and friendship; That of a subversive micro-society in the heart of a society which ignored it. Art was not the goal, but the occasion and the method for locating our specific rhythm and varied possibilities of our time. The discovery of a true communication was what it was about, or at least the quest for such a communication: the adventure of finding it and losing it. We, the unappeased, the unaccepting, continued looking, filling in the silences with our own wishes, fears, and fantasies, driven forward by the fact that no matter how empty the world seemed, no matter how degraded and used up the world appeared to us, we knew that anything was still possible, and, given the right circumstances, a new world was just as likely as an old one." [Here, the projector displays: To begin again....from the beginning]

Isn't it funny how every generation has felt the same way? Every generation at some point in time has experienced these emotions. This universal recurrence of the same situations, the same emotions, the same isolation. Is this art? Is this what is driving art???? Art- the universal language. The new world that every generation has strived to create?