TALKiNG P0iNTS #4 Christensen

ARGUMENT:Christensen argues that we the people are being manipulated by the media so we live our lives accordingly to what we learn from the TV. Magazines etc. and that this shouldn’t be how we expand our lifestyle.

Quotes:
#1“Our students suckle the same pap. Our society's culture industry colonizes their minds and teaches them how to act, live, and dream.” I agree 100 percent…
#2 “We are not only taught certain styles of violence, the latest fashions, and sex roles by TV, movies, magazines, and comic strips: we are also taught how to succeed, how to love, how to buy, how to conquer, how to forget the past and suppress the future. We are taught, more than anything else, how not to rebel.”

Is this completely true? Are we actually taught certain styles of violence? If so what are some of the styles we are not taught? I agree that we are taught the latest fashion trends, sex roles, how to succeed, love, buy and conquer. But once again I’m blinded when it comes to how they teach us how to “forget” the past, suppress the future or how not to fight back? Can anybody give me examples?

#3 “Many students don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by children's media or advertising. No one wants to admit that they've been "handled" by the media. They assure me that they make their own choices and the media has no power over them.”

I find it funny that this “many” students don’t want to believe that they have been manipulated. Why not? I personally would admit and do admit that as a child I always wanted to be like the people in the TV I wanted my parents to get me the brand name sneakers that all the “cool” kids wore and I really didn’t care if they told me that I just want to copy everything I see. Honestly I knew it was true and didn’t care. But now I really don’t care so I say I still am kind of being manipulated but not completely because I don’t mind wearing things that aren’t “cool” or isn’t in style just because of what others might say. If I can’t afford something that is “in” I won’t go out and do the impossible to get like some people would.

#4 “Because we can never look like Cinderella, we begin to hate ourselves. The Barbie syndrome starts as we begin a lifelong search for the perfect body. Crash diets, fat phobias, and the obsession with the materialistic become commonplace. The belief that a product will make us rise above our competition, our friends, turns us Into addicts.
Hate I believe is such a strong word to describe this, but I do believe it makes us think about how we can perfect our bodies to make them similar to the ideal bodies they are talking about. And once again I have to agree 100 % with this quotation beside that we begin to “hate our selves” .