Amusing Ourselves to Death

So what we have been talking about in class relates more of how Huxley was saying that what we love will eventually ruin us. People love to watch reality t.v. but it keeps making us more and more apathetic. This is true in a way as well as Orwell's point that what we hate will ruin us. I think that if things continue the way they are going either one is possible, which is kinda scary but true. No one wants to talk about the things that are really important in our society and other countries. Plus everyone wants to sit in front of a computer or t.v all day and watch trash that shouldn't even be on t.v since all it is doing is teaching the youngest generation that all morals can just be thrown out of the window.
The author had a good idea posting this as a web comic instead of an article or something like that. The web comic allows more people to understand exactly what it is the author is writing about by having writing and pictures to help the reader along. It also makes more people likely to read it. Most people don't enjoy reading long articles on the Internet, at least I know that I don't, but web comics are short and are more eye catching that some black page with black and white words all over it.

Honey Boo Boo Child

I think that the reason Albom is linking the t.v show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Tony Scott's death because both should horrify people, maybe not to the same dagree but still. The show should be appaled by everyone and no one should want to see someone commiting suicide let alone put the video on youtube. I agree that it is impossible to get rid of this kind of thing unless you show no intrest. I also agree that no little gril should be so promiscuous at that young of an age. I do think that reality t.v is making us apathetic. We don't really care about other people like we should. No one should be able to watch someone die without feeling some kind of sadness, and no one should even want to watch this. If this trend continues we are eventually going to not feel anything for anyone else but our self and people we are close to, which will cause our nation die because we won't be able to deal with any of the real problems we will just be caring about ourselves.

Eassy

For my essay I am going to write about my digital life on facebook

Reality T.V

I have never been really into reality t.v. All of the shows just seem to repeat themselves over and over. I can watch maybe on season of certain shows such as American Idle and Big Brother, but others such as Jersey Shore and The Bachelor just seem uninteresting and silly. That's why the only time I ever even watch any reality t.v shows is when my mom watches them and I am in the living room. Most of the time I don't even watch it then I just listen to it while I play solitaire on my iPad. So reality t.v has never had a huge effect on my life. I have noticed that it does have a major effect on society. People act differently just because they think that they might possibly get on t.v. They try to be people that they are not just so the population will find them more interesting. Some sixteen year old girls would try to get pregnant to just to be on sixteen and pregnant. Other people get drunk and act slutty while in a competition show just so they can maybe win money or get to the next week instead of trying to use their skill. As a society we condone these behaviors because we find them more interesting, making others think that acting like this in real life is OK, not something that should be avoided. We idolize people who should be ignored and we ignore the people that deserve our attention and we should listen to because they have amazing ideas. We would also rather watch someone make a fool of themselves then watch a debate between the two people that are going speak for our country for the next four years. This has caused our society to not care what is going on politically just what is happening on their favorite reality show. We care more about watching someone get drunk and sleep with some random person than to find out what is happening in other contries that can cause thousands of people to die everyday. Not to mention that the majority of reality television is probably not even reality. It is just directors trying to make their show more entertaining, which sometimes it is but it is causing a downfall in our socity.

Hi, I'm Jessie and I like to read, watch T.V. and play video games in my spare time. Some of my favorite books that I read are mostly horror stories by Stephin King who is my absolute favorite author, but I also like almost anything that is fiction. I live in Campbellsville, Kentucky, which is pretty much the center of Kentucky. Yeah that's pretty much it, so yeah, bye.