Consumerism

Over the years I have always heard a lot of talk about Black Friday shopping but I have never really put much though into it or looked it up until recently and what I saw was appalling. To think that people can be this inhumane about shopping is actually disgusting. There are many people all over the world that do not have enough money to put food on their table and these people on Black Friday basically kill each other over MATERIAL goods. Something just does not add up here, society goes to some deep lows at times but this is actually out of control and I realize that this is all about consumerism and making the economy some money but there should be a little bit of balance here. It is amazing and scary to see the lengths that some people will go to buy something that is not even a necessity merely because it is on sale.

Thank-you Paulo Friere

Oppressed Students

Unoriginal and void, this is how much of the world looks at children going into school and this is people look at kids when it comes to the banking method. The banking method is where children are empty pots waiting for knowledge to be dropped into them. This severely suppresses creativity in children. At the age of a child’s first days of school a child is extremely imaginative and creative, they are also not held back by bias and polluted thoughts that society could cast upon them. It is once children are brought into school and forced to think and do things that schools want them to, is when they start to lose all of their magic and creativity. It is so uncommon to see people overflowing creativity today’s society because we are all pre-set and continuously taught to think the same way.

Slimjim Salad Commercial

Shakespeare SlimJim Video

Ideology of Equality

In 2012 we live in a world where equality is an ideology that is constantly being fought for, but yet is somehow never achieved. We want equality for women, we want equality for marriage, and we want equality for minorities, but yet with all the determination to achieve this equality in society our world is taking very small steps in creating it. After hundreds of years we have overcome many obstacles; the United States now have an African American president, women are now in the work force and gay marriage is not being accepted in certain places. But does this mean that racism and discrimination are now unknown terms to our society? Of course not, our world is still very much controlled by the white middle class men of our society, what they say is what ends up being the deciding factor. Why is it that our world is so intimidated by change? Why are so many people against two people of the same sex being in love, or a woman having a higher salary than a man?

This here is part of the opening of the London Olympic ceremony, the whole scene was a beautiful portrait of nationalism and how the world transformed into an industrialized nation.

Nationalism

Article on Nationalism & the Olympics

Nationalism, it is something that is felt deep within you, strong feelings about certain things for reason that may not even be known to you. This is an ideology that is present within every one of us that expresses our love for our nation. Think back to a time when you have felt great pride in your country, did you feel the pride because of something that directly benefited you? Probably not, then why would one feel this pride? For the most part people are very selfish beings and they live their life for themselves and the people that are closest to them. So how does it make sense that they feel this overwhelming pride when their country wins an Olympic medal or a sports team from their country wins a national cup?

Sexuality education

The following video discusses two different views on sexual education, one view is taken from an American psychiatrist and the other is taken from a doctor in New Zealand. New Zealand has amazing low numbers when it comes to teen pregnancy and STI outbreaks and this is a result of having good sex education taught within their schools. But even with these results some people like the American doctor, do not believe that these topics should be talked about in schools, they believe that the only place that students should hear about these issue is at home with their parents. But what happens when parents the parents do not want to talk to their children about sex either? Then where do kids get their information from? With todays’ society the media has such a large influence on teens that if they do not get educated on sex and other related relations they will follow what they see on the media because they think it is “cool” and the “normal” thing to do.

Irish Discrimination.

This is a musical picture video i found on Irish discrimination in the view point of an Irish man. In this video he speaks of how they are just like any other immigrants except for the fact that for some reason they were not accepted and we not able to apply for many jobs and live a happy life where they felt accepted by society.

Whiteness

                        The color of one’s skin is sadly an indicator of their status and power within the world, or at least this is what I have always been taught within my school systems and in society. Although, in the last few years I have realized that there is in fact an exception to every rule. It is not always true that the color of your skin represents where you stand in this world, it is actually a combination of the color of your skin and how you live/how society sees you and interrupts yours actions and way of life. I have seen power in a new view since opening my eyes a little wider since learning about the Irish and about a term that McIntosh likes to call whiteness. I have also used this new knowledge and reflected it on my own life and how I myself am impacted by whiteness.

This should be everyone's outlook on love, so amazing!

Real panopticon

Panopticism

Imagine a world in which you were constantly being watched, not just when people are around but every moment of your life. Would things change? Would you act the same as if you were not being watched? I did not think so, when you are being watched or even get that feeling of being watched you no longer do things the same because you know that you are being judged and observed and make a conscious effort to appear in your own ideal way. This world that you are imagining right now does exist in many different concepts one being facebook. The whole idea of acting differently while knowing one is being watched was put into place with Faucoult’s panopticon prison lay out. Faucoult realized that with people knowing that they are being watched they would self-discipline themselves.

Ideologies

            Doctors, military, gangs, and servers, at first glance it will look at though these different groups of people have next to nothing in common and that is true. Except for the fact that each of these groups have their own ideologies, which means that these groups all have their own language, way of living, ways of thinking, and concepts in order to server their purpose in society. This is at least my take on what ideology is and the more I think about it the easier it is for me to think of how many ideologies come to mind, they are all around us. They shape our world, if we did not have ideologies we would all be too much alike and this cannot be the case for our world.