Class and My Thoughts

Class this week was very interesting week, I learned a lot and it was very interested in everything we watched and learned. Everything we discussed or watched really made me think about media and what it does to our life. I wondered what the world would be like without media. Would it be a more peaceful place, more respectful society, or would the world be worst? How would kids of this generation act, talk, and be defined as a person to society or peers? Would the economy be as strong as it is or would it be in more danger? How would we look at the world or our community without media?
I thought about so much and how my childhood and those of my little nieces' and nephews' differ so much. They grew up with TV, since they were babies and I finally got TV when I was 7 years old. That's a whole 7 years, babies learn so much in one and with that I see such a difference in how they act and talk. I was always outside running around or helping my dad fix stuff. My little nieces and nephews are no where near that. They can barely clean the house and they are so lazy and really don't do much and just watch TV. We started to turn the TV off and make them work and started to limit the amount of TV watched. At first they were mad but after a while they spent more time outside than in and are very independent.
We as a nation depend so much on media, we would probably go insane without it. We all have to have the latest news in a flash or click of a bottom. We all need to know whats going on 24/7 and never think bout the real problems that are from media. All the wrong messages, false information or how this even got to be media. Media is one of the most important aspect in our lives today. We just look the other way and pretend its not and go on with life. But in reality we are always looking for whats new and what entertains us. There will never be a moment that media is not part of our lives because some how everything revolves around it.
Going back to the two classes this week, I learned that even though media is all around us and will never go away, that we have to be away from it for awhile. If not we will all get caught up in this reality that is not true most of the time. From the presentation of the Porche and Brittany Spears. I mean Porche is not the only luxury car or ride out there and if you don't buy one you are not safisicated. Even though you look, sing, or dance like Brittany Spears, people are still gonna hate you. The films we watched were very interesting, scary, and intense. We heard a whole documentary on and i didn't know how he was and did. No matter how big you get or are, most people will not know you. It is all just a big cycle of who you know and how you are represented to society. They will know and love you one day and than in a blink of a eye, you are hated everywhere.