Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Im a victim

Hyperreality has effected me in many ways, even since i was a youngin. "Hyperreality is exploited in advertising for almost everything. Advertising uses a fake world to define in each person a character that he or she wishes to be. Advertising sells the public an image in the hope that they will buy into their version of a lifestyle that they ultimately desire.Buy the most expensive jeans as worn or designed by your favorite celebrity". I was effected this way when i was young, i saw batman wear a cap so i thought if i wore a cap i thought i would become the ultra cool batman that i admired. This shows that the young mind is easily effected by a hyper reality just as much as a adult. Jim Gaffigin says that "When your single all you see are couples". this is a hyperreality that high schoolers fall into, they see everyone around them dating and they feel there life's should be the same. This effects many life's today because you start to question why your life isn't this way, and i believe you start to undervalue your own life and you feel left out from the world. Over all we feel we need the hyper reality to feel connected to the world today.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-hyperreality.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9gbX9kH8o

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Hyperreality and how its affects love

Hyper reality affects the American lives of today and relationships with the use of the imagination. Jean Baudrillard explains hyper reality as "The simulation of something which never really existed". This can be shown through video games where you become who you make yourself such as you could be a millionaire online but in reality have a job at a fast food restaurant yet still get the stimulation of being a millionaire. Now this endangers reality because if you bring the mentality that your a millionaire over to what is real and buy everything you want your eventually going to have a huge debt when you start to spend more than what exists in real life. This endangers relationships because you may have friends who like you for your stuff or people are going to start thinking your someone your not. Garry Crystal says that "Hyperreality can also take the form of reality by proxy, in which a person takes someone else's version of reality on board as his or her own. Some people who watch soap operas for a long time develop a view of interpersonal relationships that is determined by the writers of the soap. The extreme dramatic relationships in soaps are a heightened form of reality that some people relate to as being real. Such people begin to judge social relationships and situations by this heightened reality. They can no longer see the reality of a social situation without relating it to the soap". This affects our relationships today because we see a star doing something so we feel we must have that same relationship we see. This effects our relationships now because if our relationship isn't lining up with what we see, we automatically think hey our relationship isn't like that so we see no reason to carry on that relationship and/or theres no hope if our relationship isn't like that. Overall hyper reality lets us replace our world with what are imagination thinks should be happening. This all goes to show that ideas have consequences and these consequences are only getting worse and worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-hyperreality.htm

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I Capitan!....

So Jack Sparrow is postmodern. hmmm i wonder why. lets see throught what ive seen of the movie everyone else seems to be sober and well hes not. But then again its been 2 years sence ive seen the movie and ive failed at seeing the new one so i haven o lcue what ot write in this space but im still trying. lets see what else can i remeber other than his comments to the colonials are clearly different and he doesn't seem to have a care for the guildlines others give him.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

We are at sea?

so lets recap Rosencrats and guildernstern are on there way to england on a boat and Hamlet replaces the letter with a fake one comdeming there lives. Now there both on a boat sailing to death, this could represent the fact that during shakephere's time America wasn't founded yet and if you sailed you would sail off the end of the world into nothign and die so all in all they were sailing to their deaths.

Friday, January 11, 2008

ant life

Ok os i was to break from this life that i live in that seems to be a rutine. Now in my house we get alot of calls and i mean A LOT! of calls from telemarkets. Now our normal rutine is pick up nad hang up in about a second now htis time i answered but i actually just had a normal conversation with him like if a friend called. After i was shure he was confused because he was trying to sell me somthing i clrealy didn't want but i decided to go on bunny trails and eventually we talked about our jobs and we each decided that he has the better job compared to our opinions but his job has the tendency to get more boring faster and he said this was his best call of the day so all in all i didn't buy anything but we both went our seperate ways probably never going to hear eachother again in our lives.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Why include the 'game of questions' in a movie about existence?

Rosecrans's and Guildernstren are lost in a world where they seem to have no memories other than being sent on a mission. Now they are asking questions to find there existence. Could there life be to ask questions. There mission is to find out whats wrong with Hamlet and why he is mad. They are surely not going to get any info if they don't ask question and thus there sponginess of life is meaningless if they don't ask questions. So there existence must be to ask questions but they don't know what questions to ask.