In This is Emo, Klosterman discusses the effect on people based off of romantic couples in the popular culture that we experience. It is obvious today that when people watch movies or read books, they get hooked on not only characters, but even their personalities and their every moves; including relationships. While reading this article, it is well brought up that the people in our society fall more in love with fictional characters in movies than their real relationships. Klosterman talks about his girlfriend who really loved John Cusack more. This is Emo discusses models the same way that Sulking with Lisa Loeb does.
In Sulking with Lisa Loeb, it is written the people in generations play a huge part in this need to be like our popular culture. A huge example in this article is Star Wars. When people saw Star Wars for the first time, they loved Luke Skywalker. They saw him as a real person instead of a fictional character in some weird movie. They saw him as someone else that related to their lives. This also relates to This is Emo because both articles of popular culture connected to the reality of people and how they see themselves or want their lives to be. Whether they connect to someone like Luke Skywalker or want a boyfriend like John Cusack, popular culture in this reaction, affected the population greatly.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The Internet
There are so many different opinions in the world that are based off of the Internet. Is it good or bad? Do people actually learn from it? Is it just another step into technology until something new comes in to take its place? I think that the Internet is a good thing for people to have. It really helps with a lot of things that you can't do when you don't have Internet access.
When relating to the other readings from earlier in class, such as "The Futile Pursuit of Happiness" by Jon Gertner. In this article it talks about different ways that things make people happy. I think that these two articles really connect because happiness is involved. People don't usually just use the internet for no reason, a lot of people use it because it makes them happy. Another question from "The Futile Pursuit of Happiness" was what happens when someone's thoughts about their happiness are true and actually make them feel the way they think they will? I think this connects to people's use on the internet; the opposite way. When people get on the internet, they are most often looking for something or an answer that they know the Internet will have; but what happens when they can't find the answer they were looking for and the Internet has failed them? I think that is the point where the Internet is bad because everyone depends on it for most of their life which isn't a really good things to get in to.
When relating to the other readings from earlier in class, such as "The Futile Pursuit of Happiness" by Jon Gertner. In this article it talks about different ways that things make people happy. I think that these two articles really connect because happiness is involved. People don't usually just use the internet for no reason, a lot of people use it because it makes them happy. Another question from "The Futile Pursuit of Happiness" was what happens when someone's thoughts about their happiness are true and actually make them feel the way they think they will? I think this connects to people's use on the internet; the opposite way. When people get on the internet, they are most often looking for something or an answer that they know the Internet will have; but what happens when they can't find the answer they were looking for and the Internet has failed them? I think that is the point where the Internet is bad because everyone depends on it for most of their life which isn't a really good things to get in to.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Technology vs. The World
Does anyone remember back to the age of 7 or 8? When the outside world seemed so nice and interesting? You could walk outside and play all kinds of games with your family, friends, or neighbors. I can probably speak for most when saying if you walked outside to check on a bunch of 7 or 8 year olds now, they would all have some sort of technology in their hand; phone, video game, etc. Since the early 2000's, technology has been trying to take over the world with all its new creations such as smart phones, social media, and wireless internet. When the Millennial Generation got attached to the new technology, the world took a turn for the worse.
With technology rises still to this day, the Millennial Generation has became very dependent on things such as internet, wireless connection, and social media. How many of you have checked twitter at least 3 times this morning on your SMARTPHONE while using WIRELESS INTERNET? I thought so. Although the generation has became very dependent on things, I guess you could say that they have also learned some skills from it all to, like multitasking. I personally think that our parents got us to where we are today as the Millennial Generations. A lot of parents go out and buy all these new technology gadgets like smartphones, video games, computers, and just hand them to their kids. This isn't really helping the technology problem. When the Millennial Generation grows older and has their own kids, I am really afraid to see what will happen with them and the rest of their generation.
With technology rises still to this day, the Millennial Generation has became very dependent on things such as internet, wireless connection, and social media. How many of you have checked twitter at least 3 times this morning on your SMARTPHONE while using WIRELESS INTERNET? I thought so. Although the generation has became very dependent on things, I guess you could say that they have also learned some skills from it all to, like multitasking. I personally think that our parents got us to where we are today as the Millennial Generations. A lot of parents go out and buy all these new technology gadgets like smartphones, video games, computers, and just hand them to their kids. This isn't really helping the technology problem. When the Millennial Generation grows older and has their own kids, I am really afraid to see what will happen with them and the rest of their generation.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Spaghetti Sauce = Happiness?
Everyone has a different perspective on their happiness in life. Some people get happiness out of going to the mall and buying everything that they want; others get happiness out of opening presents from family on Christmas. People who receive natural happiness get it from choices and receive freedom as well. When getting synthetic happiness, it isn't always what you wanted but is being happy with what you get.
In Malcolm Gladwell's video comparing happiness to spaghetti sauce, he talks about ways in which spaghetti sauce brought both synthetic and natural happiness to the world today. I processed the video as Gladwell was describing both happiness's. While he talked about natural happiness, I think the main point that proved this was that Prego spaghetti sauce has gave buyers a choice. They put buyer's consideration into play by asking them what they wanted in spaghetti sauce and gave them that. Gladwell also gave examples related to synthetic happiness such as the platonic dish, which is something everyone would love. He also talked about how people were pretty much stuck with things like plain black coffee and thin spaghetti sauce that people were stuck with and learned to be happy with it. Overall, Malcolm Gladwell's video showed that spaghetti sauce didn't only bring natural happiness to the world, but synthetic happiness as well.
In Malcolm Gladwell's video comparing happiness to spaghetti sauce, he talks about ways in which spaghetti sauce brought both synthetic and natural happiness to the world today. I processed the video as Gladwell was describing both happiness's. While he talked about natural happiness, I think the main point that proved this was that Prego spaghetti sauce has gave buyers a choice. They put buyer's consideration into play by asking them what they wanted in spaghetti sauce and gave them that. Gladwell also gave examples related to synthetic happiness such as the platonic dish, which is something everyone would love. He also talked about how people were pretty much stuck with things like plain black coffee and thin spaghetti sauce that people were stuck with and learned to be happy with it. Overall, Malcolm Gladwell's video showed that spaghetti sauce didn't only bring natural happiness to the world, but synthetic happiness as well.
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