Sooo…I completely agree with Carr’s opinion on how humans turn to the internet or Google as a shortcut for his or her brain to have to not work as much. I found myself being guilty of this act when I clicked Carr’s article and realized it was about thirty paragraphs long. I thought to myself, “Wow, do I really have to read all of this…or should I just skim it?” When I look back on it, the article was, in reality not that elongated. My mind is so used to creating shortcuts to reading and finding out answers to certain details that it actually lessons my knowledge in my reading and learning ability.
It stated in the article how people used to read through books after books to find out information needed; it inhibits a person’s time management, but, on a positive note, the individual actually obtains new knowledge from it. Now, since the internet is almost like a supply closet where we can search and choose information to read in a click, we block ourselves from important information we could have obtained if we actually motivated ourselves to take more time to process and actually read more about it.
He states how we are “artificial intelligence” and we are “mere decoders of information”. I could not agree more. When we allow ourselves to function in a way that is pulling our brain away from higher, more independent knowledge, we are losing our mere, overall, independence. Also, when we depend on typing in a word to find loads of meanings of it on the internet, instead of taking time of reading something to obtain it; we can be prone to acts of brainwash. The internet source is not always correct, and people seem to always rely on it. It is ultimately degrading. We are allowing ourselves to lesson our knowledge when we depend on the internet.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Postmodernism extinct??
Okay…so basically this Postmodernism jibberish seems to come up every day in AP Lit. Even in every book we read it somehow compares to Postmodernism, so it seems interesting now we watch and read something that is departing from this act.
In the movie it gives everyone a sense of how rapid populations are expanding, more technologies are being brought out every year, new jobs are being invented, etc. The video is basically saying that we are being prepared for things we have yet known to exist. Such an example is when it states, “The top ten demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004.” That is insane! In a six year span ten jobs that had not ever pass a human thought became the top ten most common jobs! Just imagine that with the demanding use of technology now…that can double or even triple the amount of jobs we think our possible in the present. Is it possible ever to exceed jobs? The economy right now is struggling to even find jobs, will we even have enough to pay people to employ? Is it possible to create an overload of job opportunities and fail because of money? Sorry got a little off topic =)…but as it went on it states at the end of the video that 67 U.S. babies were born, 274 babies were born in China, and 395 babies were born in India. That is 736 people…not including all the other countries around that world!!! Our world’s population is expanding to the extreme.
In the featured article we read it comments how we extinct the act of Postmodernism in a way such as, “In pseudo-modernism one phones, clicks, presses, surfs, chooses, moves, downloads.” Instead of relying on reading and watching things to become brainwashed into certain information, we are actually apart of the changing situation occurring in day to day life. It becomes dependent on technology instead of naturalistic things. Our world used to be able to communicate and live on without technology, but now a days people cannot live a day without it. I read an article that in 1979 2000 customers were given cell phones in a trial and in 1987 they were officially given out. Look how much a cell phone has grown since then! We can even take pictures, videos, listen to music on them, and the list goes on! What else can possible be produced? What can you guys think the world will produce next? Nothing crosses my mind, but I guarantee you once we try this new technology we will rely on it and say we need to depend on it.
I hope that made sense. I rambled alot but I think I got my point across!
In the movie it gives everyone a sense of how rapid populations are expanding, more technologies are being brought out every year, new jobs are being invented, etc. The video is basically saying that we are being prepared for things we have yet known to exist. Such an example is when it states, “The top ten demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004.” That is insane! In a six year span ten jobs that had not ever pass a human thought became the top ten most common jobs! Just imagine that with the demanding use of technology now…that can double or even triple the amount of jobs we think our possible in the present. Is it possible ever to exceed jobs? The economy right now is struggling to even find jobs, will we even have enough to pay people to employ? Is it possible to create an overload of job opportunities and fail because of money? Sorry got a little off topic =)…but as it went on it states at the end of the video that 67 U.S. babies were born, 274 babies were born in China, and 395 babies were born in India. That is 736 people…not including all the other countries around that world!!! Our world’s population is expanding to the extreme.
In the featured article we read it comments how we extinct the act of Postmodernism in a way such as, “In pseudo-modernism one phones, clicks, presses, surfs, chooses, moves, downloads.” Instead of relying on reading and watching things to become brainwashed into certain information, we are actually apart of the changing situation occurring in day to day life. It becomes dependent on technology instead of naturalistic things. Our world used to be able to communicate and live on without technology, but now a days people cannot live a day without it. I read an article that in 1979 2000 customers were given cell phones in a trial and in 1987 they were officially given out. Look how much a cell phone has grown since then! We can even take pictures, videos, listen to music on them, and the list goes on! What else can possible be produced? What can you guys think the world will produce next? Nothing crosses my mind, but I guarantee you once we try this new technology we will rely on it and say we need to depend on it.
I hope that made sense. I rambled alot but I think I got my point across!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Cat's Cradle =)
I absolutely love Cat’s Cradle so far but in comparing it to Postmodernism I am going to have some difficulty because I don’t quite comprehend Postmodernism’s ideas.
Some ideas from Postmodernism that I understood contained similar aspects in Cat’s Cradle. When talking about the religion, Bokononism, I can see how it is relative to a kind of Postmodernist religion. The first line it the Bokonon book stated, “All of the true things that I am to tell you are shameless lies.” Here we can see Bogonot’s opinion on religion. People are in search for something they can actually believe and seems real. The religion, overall, covers the horrific and terrifying truths presented in society, but are hidden to cover these truths with lies that satisfy individuals. They do not question the religion, just blindly follow it. In Postmodernism it simply states that a person believes what they desire to. It is to strive for what makes someone feel good without any negatives. One chooses bits and pieces of varieties of religions or beliefs and takes different approvals into consideration. People believe they understand things in his or her perspective, although, in reality they come to not understand it when they run into something they have never seen or heard of before. They have not looked beyond the normal; only have been kept inside his or her mindset. Furthermore, "Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies." This expresses the ideas I mentioned previously in the paragraph. The book promotes lies to engage the reader to believe such things to make his or her happiness content. This is bluntly related to Postmodernism in a way because in society when a group of individuals all agree in believing in something, it creates a chain reaction because it seems normal in that environment.
Okay..that was one of my ideas. I do not know if that made any sense but yeah. Have a good day =)
Some ideas from Postmodernism that I understood contained similar aspects in Cat’s Cradle. When talking about the religion, Bokononism, I can see how it is relative to a kind of Postmodernist religion. The first line it the Bokonon book stated, “All of the true things that I am to tell you are shameless lies.” Here we can see Bogonot’s opinion on religion. People are in search for something they can actually believe and seems real. The religion, overall, covers the horrific and terrifying truths presented in society, but are hidden to cover these truths with lies that satisfy individuals. They do not question the religion, just blindly follow it. In Postmodernism it simply states that a person believes what they desire to. It is to strive for what makes someone feel good without any negatives. One chooses bits and pieces of varieties of religions or beliefs and takes different approvals into consideration. People believe they understand things in his or her perspective, although, in reality they come to not understand it when they run into something they have never seen or heard of before. They have not looked beyond the normal; only have been kept inside his or her mindset. Furthermore, "Truth was the enemy of the people, because the truth was so terrible, so Bokonon made it his business to provide the people with better and better lies." This expresses the ideas I mentioned previously in the paragraph. The book promotes lies to engage the reader to believe such things to make his or her happiness content. This is bluntly related to Postmodernism in a way because in society when a group of individuals all agree in believing in something, it creates a chain reaction because it seems normal in that environment.
Okay..that was one of my ideas. I do not know if that made any sense but yeah. Have a good day =)
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