Blog Post for Feb 18

So Feed was a very interesting book to read. With all the crazyness and the funky langiage made it very interesting. I actually did enjoy reading the book. It really kind of put a perspective on how life actually could be like later on down the road, which is really scarey!! In my opinion, the Feed has a lot more disadvantages than advantages. Some of the advantages: Having all that information with you all the time would be really useful when one does try to go out and buy something, and thats it for advantages. The disadvantages are: not using it for what one should be, losing civilzation, and very independent. Not using it for what it should be used for could go various ways. Like whether you use it for looking at what kind of car to buy or whether you are chatting with a friend while eating supper with the family. I think it should only be used for certain things such as while making a purchase, and not to be used with a chatting. Thats just a sign of how we are so addicted to technology. Another disadvantage would be that it would lose our regular civilzation. We are already almost here. We hardly ever talk to someone face to face for example. We'd rather text or chat with them on facebook then aactually go out and meet them and talk, which is putting us in a bad spot. The other disadvantage I have is that we are very independent. We would rely on the feed to do everything for us. What happened to people having thier own gardens and growing thier own food? Thats very rare in this day! It would just be another distraction that would hurt us even more. I honestly think that we already do have a feed with the cell phones being almost computers and we are already hooked on them, so it's only going to get worse. Remember that the feed might have its advantages, but are they really worth all the pain?

Blog Post for Feb. 12

What determines a person to be smart or dumb? Really, it can't be determined if you ask me. I know more about sprint cars then anybody in our class and I'm sure they know way more about other things than I do so are we both dumb or both smart? Well, according to the great Dr. Bauerlein, our generation is the dumbest. To be honest, I do somewhat agree. Whenever we watched some of those clips in class; ex fill in the blank-the old man and the______. Hardly anybody knew that. It really showed me that people are not recognizing classic novels, quotes, authors, etc. And a lot of the people say, "well that's classic and it doesn't mean anything in today's society". And then we were told of a statistic that a number of people couldn't even find the United States on a map! Here's your sign! Whats wrong with this picture? Well, the classics are classics for a reason. It shows how society was back in that time period, and how everything was. And yes, probably some of today's works will be classics in 15-20 years. But I think there does need to be a balance between them. I remember doing Julius Caesar in high school and kind of thought it was interesting when most of the class thought it was stupid. But then when we'd do other works in a more recent time period, i wouldn't like it and they would. It's just a persons preference on what they like, but yet they should have a little bit of understanding in both worlds.

Now, with the dumbest generation standpoint, I do agree somewhat. I think that we probably are the dumbest generation due to the fact that we ALL rely a lot on technology to do things for us. But yet I think we have the capability to be the smartest generation. We have all kinds of resources and technology at our finger tips, but yet I think we don't know how to use it. Computer for example, the first thing most of us do when we start our computer is check facebook or myspace. Is that really what computers were made for? I thought that's what phones were for, oh and actually talking to the person face to face. But yet we tend to use all of these valuable resources the wrong way, which I think does make us be the dumbest generation. But yet, with all this technology, why are we the ones to blame? Technology all came about when the Europeans built ships to come to the Americas, so isn't technically building a ship new technology for them? And then when industrialization started to take over everything, that's definitely technology taking over. So, why are we the ones to blame when all of this "stuff" was created before our time? It looks like we are just getting the short end of the stick!

Blog Post for Feb 5

While watching the videos in class this week, it really got me thinking of what advertisements really do. With the "Killing us Softly 3" video, she had a lot of good points about how women are centralized more than what men are. We all pretty much new this but still it was kind of interesting to actually sit down and think about all the advertisements that do include women and not men. I agree with her saying that women are more centralized but does that mean the ladies in general have to listen to what the advertisement is saying? She brought up the point that a lot of teenage girls say they are not how they'd like to look. This is all because of the image we get, just like it was mentioned in "Killing Us Softly". But I do kind of disagree with some of this. For example, when I walk around campus or the mall, wherever, I am probably one of three kids that have on sprint car racing shirts. That defines me as an individual, a redneck kind of, but yet I wear the American Eagle jeans all faded out and with holes in them, so basically I'm a "hick-prep" so to say. But what does that matter, who cares??? I try my hardest not to be like anyone else. I don't wear the same cloths that Brad Pitt does just because every girl thinks he's the cutest guy around. Yes culture changes, but if we let other people tell us what we need to be like, or just to satisfy someone, then there's something wrong. For example, in Culture Jam when the guy breaks up with his girlfriend because she doesn't look like that model he's always thinking about, right there is a prime example. That girl will go out and do whatever she can to look like her just to please him! Heck tell the guy to kiss your butt and find someone that appreciates you for who are and not who they want you to be!