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!
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hey, great post. I liked how you thought about other examples then the ones that were in the video. Like the cell phone thing that you said. Yes, its totally true that people are losing their communication skills. People rather text them to actually spend time with the person or meet them somewhere. Kids are having a harder time communicating to their parents and that is affecting society and where it is heading. The whole thing about how many people were being born everyday is very extreme. Its not that we need to give out birth-control out or anything. People just need to think about other ways to allow more people into the world and not get too much technology. When you mentioned that, I thought about Brave New World and how they could produce a certain amount of people a day and want to exceed that number someday. I hope we don't get that crazy. Good job on quoting the article and mentioning the video. Great post.
ReplyDeleteI agree! People always ask me how I survive without texting... and they're serious! I call people!
ReplyDeleteAnyways, great job! Your ideas were right on. I like how you called Postmodernism jibberish too. I mean, if the idea is that nothing is transcendent, how can THAT be trnascendent? I don't think there can be a philoposhy that connects all people! So, we're trying to connect ourselves through technology. And it's getting out of hand. We're becoming dependent on things that we didn't know existed before. What did we do before all of these new jobs? We lived just fine!
Our population is expanding with the huge birth rate, but I guess you have to factor in the death rate too. Hmmm... how is it that humans are never content with what we have?
Anyways, great post!
Andrea
Yeah brookie you really arent much of a texter, i applaud you for that miss :) But isnt it nuts how freakin fast our societty is growing? More people means more technology that could potentially be produced because of all the incoming brainpower. Then again, I dont think people realize how many people die every second too. Out with the old, in with the newborn.. haha. I don't remember statistics like this being taken in 2004 and years before now, things must have boomed all of a sudden and that just amazes me. It has affected us in ways that we arent even aware of, kinda scary once you sit and think of all the changes that occurred and we've just been swept along like mindless little creatures, conforming every which way. Oh well, we'll see what the future has in store. Love you gracie
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