Ignorance is Bliss.
If there is one lesson I have taken away so far from my college experience is that nothing as simple as it may seen. Don't believe anything. As I progress farther and farther in life I have realized this more and more. Life was so simple as a child because we took everything at face value. Everything had a little place and purpose and was straight forward. Our childhoods are modernism. However, as we enter into the college years our lives go postmodern on is. Everything has an agenda. Don't look just at the message look at the messenger but then don't worry too much about the messenger. Everything's old pretending to be new. As postmodernism blurs the lines of everything and we, as a species, realize just how interconnected everything is, I beg to question:
Where is all of this stuff going?
Where is this new media taking us? I feel we're coming to the tipping poing in our image society and I don't know what's on the other side. Where are we going?
Participatory culture is the future. But what's after that? Ads that customize themselves so that as each of us watch it our friends and family are zapped into it with the message "well your friends and family are using our products shouldn't you?"
That'd be creepy. But kinda fun. I'd love to see my college friends in an ad for baby toys.
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