random fact: my group SUCKS at commenting on blogs. just thought i should share.
anyway......................
Google is making us stupid. perfect example: ME. i always self guess myself (mainly on spelling) and refer to google to make sure i have spelled it correctly (you know that handy dandy line that says did you mean: blah blah). however i do think that google is a blessing. i mean come on. all the knowledge you could possibly want unknowingly in front of you just waiting to be searched for. kudos to those two Stanford kiddos who thought of the whole concept of google.
i do think it is sad that google is like held up to the same level as food and water. you know. like you can not live with out it. it processes information for us and gives it to use in like a sentence or two. honestly. when i saw the article on the AP Lit blog the first thing i did was see how long it was. why? because i didnt want to deal with a long (possibly) boring article. i think we all do it. the longer the scrollbar on the right the better. no joke when i bought cat's cradle i was happy it had big font and not that many pages. i don't think we know how to handle a big book anymore or a big article. i know for my press releases for AP environmental science i skip over long articles. i think it's human nature. why? because of our dang small attention spans. not going to lie, reading carr's article was an irony in itself. the article was sort of long and i guess you could say somewhat difficult. there were a few moments when that my mind dove off to other thoughts (i was thinking about Thoroughly Modern Millie and how excited to see it this winter just incase you wanted to know) as you surf the net, carr says "A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we're glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper's site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration." yup. that happens to me all the time. in fact it just happened. thank you facebook. i think this also explains why everyones blog posts are so random. they jump from subject to subject but you know what. it's alright. why? because at least we can (well most of us) acknowledge our problem.
Vonnegut (fact: i just used google to make sure i spelled his name right) is a pure genius in my eyes for writing his book the way he did. i think it tricks the mind to think that its engulfing more information and being more productive than usual. like oh. i read 20 chapters last night when it was like fifteen pages yet we can still process and enjoy the book. magic.
it's quite scary how "stupid" and reliant we are on the internet.....let's just imagine how the younger generations are going to turn out.
11.15.2009
11.09.2009
fact: i will NOT be talking about cat's cradle.
i find all this "junk" rather interesting. i call it junk because i don't know what else to call that sums it all up in one term. oh and by "all" you know what i mean correct??? if not, let me know and i guess i'll provide an explanation....
okay. back to business. i do indeed agree with Kirby. post modernism is dying out. okay he states it's dead, but i think there is still a smidge of it clinging on to its final moments of life.
kirby states that "Postmodern philosophy emphasises the elusiveness of meaning and knowledge." well now-a-days people could care less about the meaning and such UNLESS it somehow effects them. kirby says that Pseudo-modernism is primarily responding to the will of the viewers. we seek to be entertained but yet are so easily bored. why? because we are in search of easy thrills. take american idol or any talent show for that matter. most people don't really care about the real talent on the show, instead they care more about all the william hung's out there that are going to make a complete fool out of themselves. why? because it's "entertaining"
i mean it's cool and everything that we as an audience can interact and influence the outcome of thing - gives people a sense of power i guess. but the sad thing is that all the technology is actually making us rather stupid. mmmm. let me prove my case. how many teenagers now-a-days actually understand one of shakespeare's plays WITHOUT the help of an outside (ie sparknotes). i'm just going to guess and say like one out of ten. but why don't we bother to understand such language? because we're lazy and are so used to quick messages (thank you texting and instant messaging for developing another own language). here's a Shakespearean insult: you are now sailed into the north of my ladies opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard (from Twelfth Night - for those people who don't know the movie She's the Man with Amanda Bynes is the modern version) (oh this is clovis west's straight (non-musical) show this year incase you're interested) i guess we just don't realize how much more fun it is to take those extras words to insult someone rather than use one or two obscene words.
aside from stripping away our brain power, technology is also capability to interact with other human beings. why? almost everything is automatic these days. you can do all your shopping (grocery to clothes to your "soul mate"). rather depressing isn't it?? i think so. even if you are one of thsoe legit people that actually go to the store and have your items rung up by a cashier, i bet you try to avoid conversation hoping that it will result in you going on with life faster. yeah. i know. i'm a cashier myself. most people avoid talking at all cost. or they are on their stinking cell phones texting away. i bet people text a person more than they actually talk to in person with that person.it shouldn't be a surprise to us that majority of marriages result in divorces.
i think have unkowningly pressed our own self destruct button.
i promise to finish this later. i think my bed is calling my name and sleeping sounds nice right now.............plus i'm safe if i've exceded the word count but am not done "rambling??"
okay. back to business. i do indeed agree with Kirby. post modernism is dying out. okay he states it's dead, but i think there is still a smidge of it clinging on to its final moments of life.
kirby states that "Postmodern philosophy emphasises the elusiveness of meaning and knowledge." well now-a-days people could care less about the meaning and such UNLESS it somehow effects them. kirby says that Pseudo-modernism is primarily responding to the will of the viewers. we seek to be entertained but yet are so easily bored. why? because we are in search of easy thrills. take american idol or any talent show for that matter. most people don't really care about the real talent on the show, instead they care more about all the william hung's out there that are going to make a complete fool out of themselves. why? because it's "entertaining"
i mean it's cool and everything that we as an audience can interact and influence the outcome of thing - gives people a sense of power i guess. but the sad thing is that all the technology is actually making us rather stupid. mmmm. let me prove my case. how many teenagers now-a-days actually understand one of shakespeare's plays WITHOUT the help of an outside (ie sparknotes). i'm just going to guess and say like one out of ten. but why don't we bother to understand such language? because we're lazy and are so used to quick messages (thank you texting and instant messaging for developing another own language). here's a Shakespearean insult: you are now sailed into the north of my ladies opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard (from Twelfth Night - for those people who don't know the movie She's the Man with Amanda Bynes is the modern version) (oh this is clovis west's straight (non-musical) show this year incase you're interested) i guess we just don't realize how much more fun it is to take those extras words to insult someone rather than use one or two obscene words.
aside from stripping away our brain power, technology is also capability to interact with other human beings. why? almost everything is automatic these days. you can do all your shopping (grocery to clothes to your "soul mate"). rather depressing isn't it?? i think so. even if you are one of thsoe legit people that actually go to the store and have your items rung up by a cashier, i bet you try to avoid conversation hoping that it will result in you going on with life faster. yeah. i know. i'm a cashier myself. most people avoid talking at all cost. or they are on their stinking cell phones texting away. i bet people text a person more than they actually talk to in person with that person.it shouldn't be a surprise to us that majority of marriages result in divorces.
i think have unkowningly pressed our own self destruct button.
i promise to finish this later. i think my bed is calling my name and sleeping sounds nice right now.............plus i'm safe if i've exceded the word count but am not done "rambling??"
11.02.2009
cat's cradle.
Alrighty. So....so far Cat's Cradle has been an interesting read. I like how each book gets more and more interesting. thank you Dominguez for choosing interesting books. Okay. now time to get to business....
So so far the sense of meaning from this book that i have understood is that peeople come from different backgrounds and the way they are brought up effects like their attitude/perspective on life and such. like remember that lady that wanted the dog house."the lady claimed to understand God and His Ways of Working perfectly. She could not understand why understand why anyone be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be." yet somehow that lady was not able to comprehend something as simple (in regards to the world's greatest mysteries that she claims to have answers to) as a blueprint. really lady?? way to be a hypocrite. kudos to you.
i think the way this whole shin dig relates to the concepts of postmodernism is because of the quest of knowledge. the more you go in search for it the more and more you don't know. you loose sense, in a way, of believing those narratives because you want to discover the "truth" though it's much more complicated than saying the reason for thunderstorms is because God is mad at all the humans who make stupid decisions and leaving it at that. i think the easiest and most obvious example of this is when the father is playing around with the string and making a cat's cradle (do you make a cat's cradle or do you play it???)
i honestly think that this quest for knowledge strips away the essential characterisitcs that make a human...well....a human. of course i'm referring to emotions. every human has emotions; some are just more emotional than others. and like we all know the difference between right and wrong and what's a "sin" and what not unlike felix whats-his-face who states "what is a sin?" another example is when frank is "experimenting" with bugs and making them fight. alrighty. i forgot what i was going to write about this example. so i'm just to going to stop for now. and edit this later and finish.
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So so far the sense of meaning from this book that i have understood is that peeople come from different backgrounds and the way they are brought up effects like their attitude/perspective on life and such. like remember that lady that wanted the dog house."the lady claimed to understand God and His Ways of Working perfectly. She could not understand why understand why anyone be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be." yet somehow that lady was not able to comprehend something as simple (in regards to the world's greatest mysteries that she claims to have answers to) as a blueprint. really lady?? way to be a hypocrite. kudos to you.
i think the way this whole shin dig relates to the concepts of postmodernism is because of the quest of knowledge. the more you go in search for it the more and more you don't know. you loose sense, in a way, of believing those narratives because you want to discover the "truth" though it's much more complicated than saying the reason for thunderstorms is because God is mad at all the humans who make stupid decisions and leaving it at that. i think the easiest and most obvious example of this is when the father is playing around with the string and making a cat's cradle (do you make a cat's cradle or do you play it???)
i honestly think that this quest for knowledge strips away the essential characterisitcs that make a human...well....a human. of course i'm referring to emotions. every human has emotions; some are just more emotional than others. and like we all know the difference between right and wrong and what's a "sin" and what not unlike felix whats-his-face who states "what is a sin?" another example is when frank is "experimenting" with bugs and making them fight. alrighty. i forgot what i was going to write about this example. so i'm just to going to stop for now. and edit this later and finish.
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