Brainwashed
What in the world is that noise? That constant buzzing in our heads that never seems to cease, it is not our brains trying to think up our next blog, or our computer starting up. It is the buzz of the media world that is taking over every inch of space and thought in our lives.
The television has become a universal magnet to people all over the world. If someone does not own a television, it is rarely by choice. The thoughts and perceptive ideas of Marshall McLuhan give us an inside look into what the media is doing to us, or what some people may think, for us. I found myself trying to understand the concept of media becoming an entity of its own, and began contemplating whether it is something that is crucial to our society at large. Whether or not man can come to terms with the fact that technology is no longer a mythical future, it is our now, our present, was something that McLuhan had high hopes for. Cable and satellite television have taken over our world, and McLuhan also stated that the television developed the political sphere.
"TV is revolutionizing every political system in the Western world. For one thing, it's creating a totally new type of national leader, a man who is much more of a tribal chieftain than a politician."
It is everywhere, it is our dependence, and that is what I am personally scared of most. The fact that we rely on the television to help inform us of what is going on in the world around us, and in turn basically developing the easy way out. I agree with McLuhan that we have substantially lost course of our senses, hearing, seeing and touch.
It is everywhere, it is our dependence, and that is what I am personally scared of most. The fact that we rely on the television to help inform us of what is going on in the world around us, and in turn basically developing the easy way out. I agree with McLuhan that we have substantially lost course of our senses, hearing, seeing and touch.
"We live in a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest, but the agony of our age is the labor pain of rebirth." Television is what engages us in the real world and allows us to participate in our global environment, but the outlet to this source...is it so bad?
Or are we just brainwashed?
Works Cited
McLuhan, Marshall. "The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan." Folk.uio.no. Web. 06 Oct. 2009.
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