The Feed That's Affecting all of Us

Recently we were assigned to read the book "Feed." While reading this book I noticed quite a few similarities from our world to that of the fictional world in "Feed." So it became obvious to me that even though feeds aren't installed in our brains we receive them visually and process them in our brains. Feeds such as the latest fashion, trend, news, etc..

It's a little frightening to think that if we do not realize that from science fiction the world of technology is born. Then our descendants could be walking around in bubbles fleeing from the pollution we created and getting updates on their recently developed "feeds."

I believe that in a way we are becoming like Violet. Slowly beginning to lose ourselves to what we feel are necessities and things that evoke feelings in us. Making us forget about the natural feelings the world around us creates and that we often create in ourselves.

This story is more than just fiction to me it's a glimpse forward to a world of what could be if we do nothing not to prevent technology from taking over our lives.

If you watch this really thing about what it's saying. The part that gets me is that fact that we are training people for jobs that DO NOT YET EXIST! Also, the part about myspace being the 5th largest country in the world (if it were a country.) Really, what are we becoming?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUMf7FWGdCw

How Dumb Is our Generation...really?

I miss the video lecture on Tuesday but after reading a few of my classmates blog I can draw the Conclusion of what it was about. In a few of the blog's I read my peers spoke of how the blame is not all our generation. It also belongs on our parents. In a way I can agree with this, but I also think the blame should go to the scientist that are inventing the new technologies. For instance Apple keeps coming out with a better "Ipod" almost most every year and a half, and our cellphones laptops and gaming systems just keep getting "better."

However, is having all these technology advances worth it. Think back to when you were a kid and what you played with. For me I had two sisters growing up and we were always outside playing in the dirt or making up games. We weren't inside in front of the t.v. watching commercials or playing games on our "Xbox 360's." You always here the stories from your parents about when they were our age and how they worked for what they wanted, and to change the television channel they had to walk so far. What happened to that?

What happened to the fact that in schools we watch "educational" video's instead of finding out for ourselves. We, as a whole generation, rely so much on the technology that without we almost wouldn't survive. It would almost be like the book Feed without our "feeds" we would be lost and not know what to do with ourselves.

So really who is to blame for how reluctant most of us our to learn new things or play games that involve being blown up or assembled. Is it really our parents, or grandparents, the inventors of so many grand objects, or is it simply just us becoming a lazy generation?

Whit Supremacy and The Demoralization of Ourselves

This week in Intro. To Lit. we watched video lecture delivered by Bell Hooks. In the lecture's we watched in class Hooks talked about the white supremacy and how racism is more of an idea that is more to do with classification then status. I also watched her lectures on "Rap" and "Madonna."

In the Rap lecture Hook's describes for us the world of rap. It was obvious in many of the clips she showed in her lecture that rap music reduces the respect of woman and even the respect men have for themselves to a level of sexual pleasure and nothing more. It's hard to imagine we would let ourselves go so far to earn money then stop and realize we're tearing ourselves apart. I often listen to hip/hop or R&B and sometimes the lyrics reduce women to simply a pleasure tool, Similar to the ads we talked about in class.

In the "Madonna" lecture Hook's talks about racism and how it doesn't matter what color you are; the only color that matters is green, meaning money. It's clear the Madonna is clearly not afraid to put her body and her sexual moves out there. As long as she's making money it really doesn't matter. However, I believe she demoralizes the little girl image in the fact that she's willing to pose herself, on objects many relate to small children, in sexually explicit positions. Therefor demoralizing the images in our minds as being perceived more sexually then should be.

Finally, these lectures were a bit annoying for me to watch. I dislike the fact that this woman is putting all this information out there; yet in the lectures I've watched I cannot find her credibility. To an extent it seems to me like she's an upset woman and has many issues and can bring them out in lectures. Don't get me wrong, I really did agree with a good bit of what she had to say but the rest just annoyed me.