Blog #6 : Introduction

Society has been through many cases of breakdown and rebuild. The Great Depression caused people to re-look how society was ran and ultimately caused chaos that led to individuals coming into there own personalities to survive thus creating a better world, instead of looking for one someone to be their scapegoat. In Fight Club, by Chuck Palahnuik we see that the individual needs to break away from the social norms to truly reevaluate themselves in order to see their true identity and to understand themselve. I agree with Palahnuik that the world in order to become a greater please needs to be stripped of its condiments to be made into something greater while in doing so forces the individual to do the same. Its necessary for people to start with the simplest form of a object or task in front of them to see the root to understand its entirety as a whole.

The Truman Show

Individuals today tend to accept the reality that is given to them. We fall into a nonchalant style of giving into what is given to use instead of going after what everyone considers norms in the world. However the Truman shows demonstrates an individual played by Jim Carey who is entirely fed up with what seems to be real and begins to question everything that he see's hear's and ultimately at one time believed was his life. It shows the media's control over an individual but shows how its up to the individual to either allow the control to happen or take a stand and fight back. I believe the film is advocating for the fact that we control our lives no matter how much media and out side sources try and persuade us or even tilt us to thinking what they want us to.

I agree with what the film is saying. At first I was somewhat confused with the events happening until I began to zone in. The movie gives to the idea that it is okay to question what we think is our reality and it makes us a better person by it. I enjoyed the movie. the fact someone just as in plato's cave can believe something for so long and have just a slip of there reality altered and then decide to switch to the red pill and fight against everything and everyone in his/her way.

The Truman Show gave its audience just what it needed. It in a twisted way. Showed us a reality within the story that while happening was not at all happening. We choose how we live, although at times we might cede to the media or the outside worlds mind we always have the power to change.

At the end of the movie when Truman is sailing into the water to what he believes he can escape, he fights back. He knowing someone was controlling his life sought to not give up on escaping. when e finally realized he was not in a real world he gives his famous quote line back to the world that controlled him basically giving them a big middle finger. This gives to the argument saying we the individual has power, and no one can take that right from us. 

We all in a way are controlled by media it gives us the sense that what we are doing in right. However if we don't question that media we are ceding our power as human beings to be different which in the case of all this the media wants from us. For us to go outside the norms so they can sell it right back to us in consumption. The film is making an outstanding argument that we can do whatever we like in life with just a little pinch to wake our minds back up.

Blog #4

The Alice Hoffman talk was quiet different from my prospective as I viewed it as a professional recording as I wasn't able to attend the event. I did however found it to be quiet a slumber. It was also informative Ms. Hoffman gave us an insight on her life as well as gave us examples on how to in-better our own. I believe you would have enjoyed the lecture being as you take interest into out lives being our teacher. Leading up to the event I had just got back from a 2 hr plane ride from LA in in all honesty none of the football players where happy to attend and we became even more aroused when Ms. Hoffman made a comment about football players. Ms. Hoffman gave us the opportunity to turn her novel into whatever we pictured. It was quiet difficult to understand. Picture this Ms. Johnson, someone giving you the presidency and without any questions or hate towards you told you to run the country. In reality you probably be happy but at same time look at the people with a bewildered look and want more from them help answers ideas. Ms Hoffman left interpretation up to us which was hard to interpret.

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I feel the video projected more along the lines of consumerism. It should how those individuals went out and searched for ways to sell back to the people what we already have in the underground world.  They take what is already shown to us and have the own going circle revolve back around.

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Youtube is something Ill use to express myself. I get a lot of ideas as well as motivation in my life from stories or motivational speeches I hear on you tube. It shows how much of my self it brought out by viewing the world electronically. This associates me with the future generation leaving my means of seeing to technology.
I look myself in the mirror and I see myself however. I dress how I want and do as I please without worrying what others think. I give into the idea of seeing and object and wanting but that is everyone in todays society.