Blog 5 "Historical and Personal Illusions.”

I think I did have some type of relation to Plato’s cave. I would believe in so many things that I would actually look it up just to make sure it was somewhat real.  I once believed humans couldn’t control their brain a certain way and when I look up it said you only use half of your brain. I did believe it but then I thought to myself maybe everyone’s different. Everyone uses their brain for certain things and you could only remember what your brain remembers.  My beliefs are not currently being question because I know that my brain is part of my body and it works when I want it to. The Plato’s cave, People had illusions; it’s what in their mind that wants them to believe what is happening. I still do believe that your brain works when you want it. That’s just my opinion. There’s a lot of thing out there that you can believe , when you get to a certain age you realized certain things aren’t true until you have witness it .
Sometimes some people accept certain things like sleeping a certain time of the day your brain need a hour rest and when you get back up you feel energized , Me personally I love taking naps but when I get up I’m just lazy until I eat or  do a certain thing to actually realized I need to be awake now . Sometimes people feel like they have flash backs even thou that certain flashback didn’t happen as yet. It’s an illusion on what your mind wants you think or to feel . The Plato’s cave actually tells you what the prisoner were having illusions about. Until one prisoner comes back and tells them that there’s a whole another world out there but they didn’t believe what he said because in their minds they have been trap, chain, and just looking at their own shadows hearing voices seeing other reflections in which they can’t explain but believe in it was in there mind . Their mind made them believe in things that they couldn’t understand.

Summary of “The Allegory of the Cave.”

The allegory of the cave is a text examining if humans really know the truth of an outside world or not, in this passage, humans are hostage, chained from head to toe , only seeing their own shadows and have illusions of figures and hearing voices, but one prisoner was released and when he sawed the “light” (the sun) he couldn’t bare the pain . It took him a while to gradually get accustomed to the new world that he didn’t think existed besides the cave. This text opens up to what he realized.

Blog 3 " Revised Diagnotic"

In my opinion this passage the “HYPE” by Kalle Lasn was writing because the author came to realization on how many commercials, ads and billboards that is out there in the world. She feels as if there is no place exempt from advertisement. The subconscious mind no longer reflects on the simple moments of life, Such as hearing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony play in your head.  Instead, the author hears the Oscar Meyer wiener song.

                In this passage one significant idea for me will be the commercials on TV because every time I flip the channel I feel like there are always promotions or advertisement. I feel like this is significant because the commercials are so overwhelming that we don’t even begin to realize how many there are. As the author states, there are more than 200,000 TV commercials being dumped into North Americans subconscious. She also states that the increase happened so steadily and without stopping that we still haven’t realized it. Also ads used to be confined to places such as buses, billboards and stadiums. Now there are ads on every channel even whole channels dedicated to constant advertisement. There are ads everywhere!

                I agree with Ms. Lasn when she says that corporate America feels like everywhere your eyes comes to rest can and ought to be filled with a logo or ad. There’s even a company called Video Carte who developed a way to put interactive screens on the shopping carts so you could see ads while you shop. Also in school I have read ads and I never understood why there would be such an ad there if it has nothing to do with the school, for example the snickers and Pepsi ads in school.

                Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of mental pollutants because it does affect us in our everyday life. The more we hear and see, the more we get accustomed to it and we don’t try and prevent it. Advertisements are all over New York City, there is no running from them. We are subconsciously exposed to them. That’s why sometimes I catch myself singing along with a commercial that I didn’t even realize I knew. We have to try and be smart and find ways to ignore the commercials and ads. That’s why I record my shows and skip through the ads.

                In conclusion, the passage “Hype” helps awaken us to the world of advertisement that we live in. The author Ms. Lasn points out the over whelming amount of ads as well as their subconscious effects on us. There is nowhere to run or hide from them. They are everywhere, even in the most useless places.

Blog 2

This passage the “HYPE” was written because the author came to realization on how many commercials, ads, and billboards that is out there in the world. The author feels as if there’s no exempt from advertisements .The subconscious mind is no longer reflects on the simple moments of life. Such as hearing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony play in your head .Instead the author hears the Oscar Meyer wiener song .While filling your car with gas, or just waiting for a bank machine, there’s always an ad that’s always on the side

"HYPE"

In this passage, one significant idea for me was the commercials on television, because every time I  flip the channel I like there’s always promotion or advertisement . it get so un-useful because waiting for your show to start takes even longer, because there’s so many commercials showing .

The author most important ideas were the TV commercials the company Ads that’s on your everyday doing. the author is right even shopping there’s Ads even when you’re just walking , there’s flyers on trees and side walk poles . I never realized it!

I have read ADS in school and never understood why would it be there, if it has nothing to do with school education. The author is trying to prove a point, to show readers to have common sense. We can put a stop on it but we do not because we never thought about all the same ADS we see everyday.

I think the author main point is for who ever reads to understand how bad things are in America. The more we hear, see it come across .the more it replays in our mind. We would never forget, or be bored because we would know what to expect. When we are watching televisions.

Advertisement are the most prevalent , toxic of mental pollutants because it dose effects us in our everyday life . The more we hear and listen we get so accustom to it. We don’t prevent if from it happening. Advertisement are all over New York City , But we have to be smart and not pay attention to it or record our shows so we can fast forward them .

In conclusion , this passage hype is very good  for readers who need to realized what commercials are doing to a person mind. How it takes up so many places for other things, and how it doesn’t help you by watching advertisements .Everyone has learned in school , watching television is always good But reading could be better . If we were to do this we wouldn’t care about advertisement