The Deep Woods

Short blog this week but it gets my ideas out and covers the points. In my opinion i believe i could live in solitude for a year. i used to be a boy scout and i sometimes get annoyed with all the technology that we have now days. i think that i agree with Emerson and Thoreau's words because i have similar believes i think that its important to be nonconformists. i myself lots of people will shout out oh i like ur pick shoes. yeah i have hot pink shoes. im also a gentlemen ive always been taught to respect women and not swear or fight in front of them, sometimes there are acceptions to these rules but i try not to use them unless i have to. i think i try not to conform to the norm and try to be myself. I think i could go into the woods and live with out anything for a year the only thing i would miss is my friends and family so i would like to visit them but other than that i think i could do it. 

WoW

I believe that society now days definitely masks themselves behind a shroud of technology. We as member of this super advanced society don't have to talk to anyone anymore whether it be friends or someone we just met all we need is there email, phone number, or face book  account. We have so many different way of communication that the our most important one, conversation has fallen by the wayside. Lets face it, its way easy to be your self in text messaging or on face book because you don't have that face to face interaction opposed to if your were talking face to face with a person. For example I am a very out going person but talking to girls I get real nervous and blow it every time, but if i can get a girls number and text them I'm golden because i can flirt and be myself with out them judging me or at least i cant see them judging me. I can even put a little ;) after my message to let them know i mean business. but in the real time face to face conversation, lets get real winks aren't cool at all anymore. As for "synthetic worlds" becoming  "real worlds" i disagree the movie second skin had many good points but i believe to get its point across they focused solely on the most exaggerated and hardcore side of the matter. i have lots of friends that play W.O.W and they have all had points where they go on playing sprees when the new expansion pack comes out or they just get new gear but they don't play like that all the time. i even can relate to the relationships in the movie because one of my best friends in high schools parents are similar. They didn't meet online but the play W.O.W and so does my friend. when i went over to spend the night for the first time i was amazed that his parents played it was kind of cool though, his dad would do a quest and then his mom would be like "huny i need to get on and do my stuff soon." just like they were chores in the house, and i thought that was so cool that they did that. Online gaming is just like any other hobbie, it just gets a bad wrap from the people that take it to far. For example if someone went to a comic book collectors house and asked how much he paid for issue 129 of the amazing spider man...for people who aren't total nerds its the issue where the punisher hunts down spiderman. if u don't know any of this bare with me here, this issue is valued in mint condition to sell for $700 when it came out it sold for 20 cents. to some one who is outside the comic collecting scene would be like your crazy why would your crazy. but to that comic collector its really special to him and its what he loves.i think that society needs to be more accepting and open to peoples likes and differences rather than judging people. like the movie second skin said how maybe society needs to change and not make people feel banished to these synthetic worlds where they feel no judgement and can make friends with out worrying what they look like or what they have in the real world. I think society and technology in a combination are the problem. the only thing i could think of during second skin was the south park episode where they make fun of world of war craft so here is a video clip from that its kinda gross and a super exaggeration on how people are but there's similarities from the four kids on south park to the five guys in second skin
http://youtu.be/ffjBxA-cnbM

Master of Puppets

"The average North American witnesses five acts of violence per hour of network TV watched."(p17) I found this statement to be very shocking to me which is ironic that it was in the subtitled passage shock. and also the fact that people don't mind violence anymore and i believe this is true, America i know for a fact don't care about violence whether it be in video games or on the news american runs on violence. The passage also discusses that "fear breeds insecurity and then consumer culture offers us a variety of ways to buy our way back to security" i believe this is true allot of our commercials are fear based like the ADT security commercials or even something as little as weight loss pills we as Americans are insecure and afraid of many little things but its alright the media gives us all the answers to fix it. "Just buy our product, and "for a short time only will give you a second one for the same low price." whether your afraid of being over weight or your home getting broken into american media has all the answers for you. the other half of the passage. Between Culture Jam, and Its Gotta Be The Cheese, they both prove very valid points about our consumer culture they both speak unhealthily about it. in Its Gotta be the cheese the whole poem as a whole discuses america as a unhealthy package of "processed and pasteurized cheese." They both speak out against how our culture is manipulated till its the way they want it. in Culture jam they discuss how sex in the media is changing the way we think about our partners and relationships. and in its gotta be the cheese they say "we manipulate this cheese until it suited our purpose." in america we feed people media until they will purchase the things we sell them to suit our purpose which is making money and i think that's so stupid. it just upsets me to think of how the american media can be like a tyrannical puppet master and everyone turns a blind eye to it. The reading from this week made me think of the "Metallica" album " Master Of Puppets" http://youtu.be/_z-hEyVQDRA theres a link to the song Master of puppets i think it depicts the consumer culture in america very well becasue the media is our master of puppets.