1. My Dream for America
"There is no choice but to navigate, sink or swim," according to Todd Gitlin, author of Media Unlimited. Sounds vaguely like a threat. It's a strange and somewhat unnerving experience to hardly recollect how you spent an evening, yet there seems to be something about our contemporary media that defies long term memory. What we are experiencing, much like globalization itself, is merely an intensification of processes long since at work, to which we have become accustomed to through a culture that values innovation, speed, and ease of use. As workers waste away in soul crushing conditions, their need for sensation is fulfilled by various media, which deliver disposable emotions through ready made narratives and escapist dramas. From news broadcasts to sitcoms to movies, media offer emotional investment with an escape clause, satisfying the modern creature with adaptable feelings that can be turned on and off at will. The evolution of the word "media" from a simple collective noun to a representation of an entity, says a lot about humankind's changing consciousness. We have felt, seen, and become the media, they are us, the whole 24/7 brain bulging shebang. .
Think about a typical day in any American's life. You wake up to your clock radio; turn on the "Today" show while you get ready; head out to your car where John Boy and Billy are waiting for you; ride the elevator up to class, possibly with a few classic elevator tunes looming in the background; you drop by the library to check your e-mail, and end up surfing the net for an extra hour; then you head home listening to your favorite CD on your car stereo, just to flip on the television when you finally get there. The media has become so prevalent that it is virtually impossible to escape it, wherever you go. From Discmans to portable TVs, providers are definitely feeding a demand from consumers. But what came first the technology or the fast paced human way of life? Perhaps it is only fair to say that as the pace of humans increased, technology had no choice but to try and stay ahead of the game, only pushing the torrent to yet another level of high speed, quickness, and ease.
They are trying to find absolute truth without absolute thinking because of this they will look for the truth all the eternity. ... There should be one truth and one absolute. Science has a judge to find truth and when it errs it has a judge to change truth. The old truth isn't a truth anymore. ... On the other hand philosophy start with presuppositions to find the truth by using unlimited mind. ...
The man says that all men, no matter how they live, will receive the same truth. All through time men have striven for perfection with many hardships until he "touched the truth". ... After that he tells the naive man to think even further beyond and explains that no matter how long he ponders the truth he will never understand it. ... Bringing unlimited stress and constant discomfort, the second choice is the worst. ... It's drawback is knowing that even if you try you cannot understand truth. ...
The next generation will always have enough and America is the place to be, but this is far from the truth. We are surrounded by unlimited wants and limited resources that cause problems with our society. ... Economy driving resources like oil, coal, and essential water are what we depend on as a nation, and the drive of more is pushing us to find new alternatives for these resources so our unlimited wants can, for the moment, be obtained. ...
Imagine entering a pre-industrial world full of mystery and magic. Imagine a world full of monsters, demons, and danger, as well as a world of friends, fairies, and adventure. Imagine finding a little hole in this world and out pops a hobbit. A hobbit? What exactly is a hobbit? This same questi...
Alexander Hamilton begins The Federalist 31 by presenting the primary argument of many critics against giving the federal government the unlimited power to tax. Before outlining these points, he states that there are impregnable truths in mathematics and geometry, and although not as definitive, there also exists fundamental truths in politics and ethics. In the realm politics, however, there are personal prejudices as well as "unruly passions of the human heart," which causes the citizenry to doubt even the clearest of truths known from past experiences. Specifically Hamilton notes, these tr...
To many people it is important that the truth is told to them and they feel that the media is the only way this can happen, in which many cases it is. ... The media, especially television, is anything but beneficial to our country; it has corrupted out politicians into bribing reporters, and scammed our citizens into believing half truths and whole lies. The truth was given a pathway to escape from the captivity of the government and once it got out the television expanded it and turned it into the rate boosting tool it is today. If the television would not have caught on like it did our co...
