Friday, July 17, 2009
Stealing the spotlight
We are an obsessive nation that looks to others and strives to all look like a celebrity. Self identity is great idea, but people want to look like everyone else. Celebrities take up the media with everything they do. We spend so much time watch their TV shows, movies, and listening to their music that we become obsessive over everything they do. Recently some celebrities have passed away and truly everyone is making the biggest deal out of.
When has ever important to know that someone was buried in a gold casket? Apparently if it is Michael Jackson it is. People die all the time that play a big role in our society, but there funerals are not in huge sold out arenas for everyone to watch. The day he was buried every news station was covering the exact same thing. There had to be other news to report. Although Michael Jackson had the greatest impact on music in our generation, but is it really that important to take up tons of air time to see him get put in the ground?
When has ever important to know that someone was buried in a gold casket? Apparently if it is Michael Jackson it is. People die all the time that play a big role in our society, but there funerals are not in huge sold out arenas for everyone to watch. The day he was buried every news station was covering the exact same thing. There had to be other news to report. Although Michael Jackson had the greatest impact on music in our generation, but is it really that important to take up tons of air time to see him get put in the ground?
1. Media affecting how people act, dress, and speak
There seems to be a mass of people conforming to the non-conformist movement, so it is starting to be a conformist movement. Music and movies have given people identities since the beginning of the popularity; it has even changed beliefs and standards of groups of people. Music has defined events in history and has predicted the future that we live. You can predict the change and movement of culture if you take a look at where the media is moving towards, because the general population will soon follow. The way people speak, dress, do their hair, what shoes they wear, ear and body piercings they have and how many. The media changes all of this. We can see that either we change then the media changes to suit us, or that we change to conform with the media, so it becomes the new norm.
There seems to be a mass of people conforming to the non-conformist movement, so it is starting to be a conformist movement. Music and movies have given people identities since the beginning of the popularity; it has even changed beliefs and standards of groups of people. Music has defined events in history and has predicted the future that we live. You can predict the change and movement of culture if you take a look at where the media is moving towards, because the general population will soon follow. The way people speak, dress, do their hair, what shoes they wear, ear and body piercings they have and how many. The media changes all of this. We can see that either we change then the media changes to suit us, or that we change to conform with the media, so it becomes the new norm.
Thanks Cavemen!
1. What the world would be like without the media
What kind of world would we live in, if there were no media? Would we have any form of entertainment? I bet we would be boring. We would still be like the cavemen sit there around a fire trying to entertain one another while drawing something on the wall of the cave and having them guess what it is…oh wait we do that still it’s called Pictionary! So in some ways we are still are the same, but thank goodness for the invention of the wheel, because that shot us in the era that we are in now with all sorts of ways to connect to different types of entertainment to keep our minds from progressing any further. So hat off to you cave man who invented the wheel, you my friend changed the world as we once saw it.
What kind of world would we live in, if there were no media? Would we have any form of entertainment? I bet we would be boring. We would still be like the cavemen sit there around a fire trying to entertain one another while drawing something on the wall of the cave and having them guess what it is…oh wait we do that still it’s called Pictionary! So in some ways we are still are the same, but thank goodness for the invention of the wheel, because that shot us in the era that we are in now with all sorts of ways to connect to different types of entertainment to keep our minds from progressing any further. So hat off to you cave man who invented the wheel, you my friend changed the world as we once saw it.
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