Comments on: Learning how to create successful headspaces through pop culture (part 2) http://techgnosticinstitute.com/2006/12/02/learning-how-to-create-successful-headspaces-through-pop-culture-part-2/ Becoming the content you want to see in the world Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:44:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Christopher G http://techgnosticinstitute.com/2006/12/02/learning-how-to-create-successful-headspaces-through-pop-culture-part-2/#comment-3 Christopher G Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:25:57 +0000 http://techgnosticinstitute.com/2006/12/02/learning-how-to-create-successful-headspaces-through-pop-culture-part-2/#comment-3 This is amazing. The study of media is a tricky one for those who divulge deeper than what you were saying as the surface levels of the imagery of violence and sexuallity. What media is, or has become is what you said, a consistent reminder of what we should want to be. The sad part is that it seems to me to be a circular trap. People see "Reality shows" like "The Real World", (which is ironic seeming that the show is niether based on reality or of anything most people have in the real world) and through observation, that what they have in that show, is what the viewer needs to have. Besides the capitalistic plug involved, I believe that there are even stronger implications of such shows. Anyone put in front of a camera is obviously not going to act how they would in reality. So when the people get upset, they might throw a fit and storm out of the room, where if it were in a real life situation, they might have just muttered to themselves and walked away. People seeing these ways of acting (and with the reinforcment of many, many simialar shows) begin to absorb these quailties in their real life, as how they can, or even should act in real situations. Have you ever been driving a car, in the rain and a song comes on and you think, "jeeze, this is just like that one movie...". Media effects our everyday perseption. Through this concept formed primarly from Baudrillard's idea of simulation, people can surmise that reality, in a whole has been effected perminitly. Has anyone (in the western culture specificaly) ever been in a relationship without in someway relateing it to a movie? i don't think so, and what about what you buy, or how your dress. When you buy clothes, sometimes do you related it to a charicter in a show or movie before assesing if it is something you like? Though i supose i could go on, ill make my point/comment. My belief is that media has perminitly effected/changed our perception of reality...thats the bad news, the good news is that there is nothing we can do about it but utailize it for our potiential. It's no use fighting what has taken years to engrane in our personality, but we are here, now, in this system of symbols and layered meaning, the code as Baudrillard put it. We can still be effective, but knowing how far in we are is the first step. This is amazing. The study of media is a tricky one for those who divulge deeper than what you were saying as the surface levels of the imagery of violence and sexuallity. What media is, or has become is what you said, a consistent reminder of what we should want to be. The sad part is that it seems to me to be a circular trap. People see “Reality shows” like “The Real World”, (which is ironic seeming that the show is niether based on reality or of anything most people have in the real world) and through observation, that what they have in that show, is what the viewer needs to have.

Besides the capitalistic plug involved, I believe that there are even stronger implications of such shows. Anyone put in front of a camera is obviously not going to act how they would in reality. So when the people get upset, they might throw a fit and storm out of the room, where if it were in a real life situation, they might have just muttered to themselves and walked away. People seeing these ways of acting (and with the reinforcment of many, many simialar shows) begin to absorb these quailties in their real life, as how they can, or even should act in real situations.

Have you ever been driving a car, in the rain and a song comes on and you think, “jeeze, this is just like that one movie…”. Media effects our everyday perseption. Through this concept formed primarly from Baudrillard’s idea of simulation, people can surmise that reality, in a whole has been effected perminitly. Has anyone (in the western culture specificaly) ever been in a relationship without in someway relateing it to a movie? i don’t think so, and what about what you buy, or how your dress. When you buy clothes, sometimes do you related it to a charicter in a show or movie before assesing if it is something you like?

Though i supose i could go on, ill make my point/comment. My belief is that media has perminitly effected/changed our perception of reality…thats the bad news, the good news is that there is nothing we can do about it but utailize it for our potiential. It’s no use fighting what has taken years to engrane in our personality, but we are here, now, in this system of symbols and layered meaning, the code as Baudrillard put it. We can still be effective, but knowing how far in we are is the first step.

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