Meatrix 3.4 Summary 2

        The illusions that the corporations give us through advertisement make you believe that their products are produced on a small farm by a farmer; say, named John Pickle. Advertisers portray a senerio where his cows are but a few, feed in the pasture every morning and then milked by him or member of his family. That the chickens eggs are picked up daily from a meticulous hen house. In reality what happens is not what is shown to the eye but by information released from insiders to the public. Where artifical growth hormones ( which are banned in Europe and Canada ) are given to farm animals to have them  grow larger and produce more. How unsanitory the conditions are from overcrowding and craming of cows into confined spaces where their excrement is pumped to our land and streams infecting our water supply and spreading the chance of  hoof disease , salmonella, cholrea and so on. Diseases we thought we basically eradicated. Take for example the recent  breakout of mad cow disease in England which had been spread recently due to feeding farm animals with by products of other farm animals which were infected with the disease. People were becomining ill and dying with a form of spongevirus and it was later tracked back to the beef and the way it was processed. The country had to slaughter thousands of cows and a ban was put in place to not by any beef from England.         

Meatrix 3.4 Summary 1

      Farming  has become a big business for corporations. The way of the small farms in the old days is slowly disappearing. Corporations have been squeezing alot of farmers to sell their land so they can enlarge their stake in farmland in order to mass produce for a greater market capitolization. Mass production may have intended to be a way to satisfy the ever growing population, but it has gone astray. Animals are forced to reproduce, then coraled into cramped quarters, pumped with steriods and antibiotics in order to produce bigger stock. Chickens lay more eggs, cows are producing more milk and beef, calfs are strapped and hung to keep their bodies tender to produce veal. The mass production of pumping drugs into farm animals has begun to have serious consequences. Bacteria and virus have mutated and become resistant to the drugs meant to help us. The human population as a whole can now become infected with new drug resistant strains because of greed.   

CAT # 3

     Sticks and Stones may break my bones and hurt me but words will evidently kill you hold true as this article would suggest. As in the old days when someone was an outcast they would have been picked upon and physically beaten up in the street or a playground. Typically over something mundane as being a nerd, a social outcast. Back then they would have lived with it, as only those in the neighborhood would know of  what transpired and why. When someone puts pen to paper and spews vicious words it can be detrimental to the mental health of the person being attacked.

      One such instance i can recall that made headline news around the world is the "Columbine High School Massacre". This happened on April 20,1999, where two stundents; Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went beserk killing 12 students and injuring about two dozen other students and teachers. These two students had become social outcasts, they were not in any cliques, they frequently bullied and picked on for being who they were or were not. Years of mental abuse caused them to become secluded in their own world, a world of violent video games and gun magazines. Possibly delusional from this abuse they decided who should die. This day in April they came to school to take the lives of those who made life difficult for them. They then  killed themselves. Bullying others as was done to these two students not only took their lives but that of others in their path.

         As the professor John Suler has suggested in the online book "The Psychology of Cyberspace", " people say and do things on the cyberspace that they wouldnt orduinarily say in a face to face world."  I believe that to be so true as i have said some harsh words to people, which would cut that person right down to the bone; emotionally, menatally. When i was in my early twenties. I've seen that person, a co worker of mine become so disheveled, distraught over the mocking words i said; words that were said amonst his peers and friends. Those words had a lasting effect on him as most of his friends were not friends anymore. No, he did not attempt to kill himself, but he was seriously depressed, alone and secluded.

The authors' Jake Simms and Larry Magid note in their article that whether its a case of defamation, outing, joking or just being plain mean, cyberbullying can inflict mental anguish which can haunt that victim forever. As what seems to have happened to a teenage high school girl recently. She was outed over the internet on facebook about being easy, a slut, that she would have sex with anyone. She became so depressed she attempted suicide. The internet reaches the masses and can change a person mentally, not knowing that someone you never met knows what was said about you.

A bully gets satisfaction from seeing others quiver and in the old days it was physical. Nowadays the mental anguish of words or video posted through cyberspace can have a profound effect on the victim as we really don't know the their state of mind and if they can deflect what was said . it is said when someone takes their life 

                                          

Claims, Reason, Evidence

Personal electronic devices:

Blackberry,  computers  cell phones  walkie talkies nextel radios  gps extremely handy annoying accessibility
instant information, distorted,  interuptions, cut off, poor signals, convienence, work related,  time warp, large data storage, stolen inrofmation

Claim:  Is society annoyed with its PEDs as much as the love affair it has for wanting the next new one.

Claim:  Has society gone mad with its love hate relation to PEDs


Reasons: 1. People love their computers especially to chat, but freak out even go ballistic when it freezes up
               2. Cell phones are such a convienence these days that they drive people crazy over lost signals                    of an important conversation. Or of distorted voices where the information meant something
                    else.
               3. Knowledge is readily obtained from the large data storage (memory) that PEDs have but can be
                    if the system crashes.
               4.

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Looking to date and chatting with another person online may be a form of communication. Ferretting out the information you share to see if you are compatible can leave one in another realm. When that person describes themselves to you that they are 6 foot, 190 lbs.,good looking, physically fit and posts a photograph of themselves for you to see. You  visualize this person with whom you are talking with, so you agree to a date. When you finally meet the person you envisioned you realize it was all an illusion created by the perpetraitor.  Others may not care what anothers appearance is or even that they have lied. The illusions that are fabricated can be dangerous; as one does not know the delusions of the other person.  Before online chatting and dating people socialized and engaged with others. Online chatting is now allowing more in  society to become socially inept . A person never leaves their enviorment. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6dd080e255/online-dating     

Three Artifacts #2

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009_swimsuit/more/cover.html
Photography was once a true image of the subject being taken.
Now photographs which are taken of the original subject are then brushed to enhance the image. These images are made to appeal to the public. For example in the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated, the model poses to show off the swimsuits. Their natural bodies are then brushed showing their skintone basically flawless. Their bosoms are enlarged to attract people but as we all know, this is not exactly what the model looks like.
The advertisers here, create an illusion in order to sell their magazines and the clothing that the models wear. The reality is that people reading these magazines believe this is the norm. This is bad because it affects the self esteem. People think they have to be thin and they have to look perfectly flawless when in essence people are imperfect.
The male population, after looking at the photographs believe that every woman should basically look as beautiful as this. And they go out into the world looking for this beauty but are disappointed as to what they find because this is not reality. Women then feel they are not up to par and they don't meet the man's standard because of brushed photos like this.
Young children growing up also learn these traits of their fathers, brothers or friends and they believe that they should have a woman as beautiful as in the magazine not realizing that a woman next to them is as beautiful as the photo. And they are losing out on finding that someone.

Truman Syndrome diagnosed

         Life does imitate art as the author suggests in his article, "Truman Syndrome diagnosed". Some of us enjoy living vicariously through others and visualizing ourselves as that person; becoming the star in our world.  Most people though, awake from that moment, that delusion; as we are able to differentate our true lives from that realm. For others life seems to be a reflection of what they perceive to be real. Everything around them is a stage and they are the main character. Where reality and illusion coincide with each other. In the studies, the subjects struggle to seperate reality and illusion. Is this life  they lead a delusion caused by a want of  fame or a paranoia due to a mental illness or breakdown.

My youngest brother, Vinny would be a good example of someone who could be diagnosed with such delusions.  His reality was that he thought everyone including myself was out to fool him.  In essence his own mind played these scenarios. Vividly believing everything someone said as if it was his own story.  A story which a friend of his spoke of turned out to actually become my brother's. My sister in passing conversation recently spoke about his delusions. Telling me in detail how my marriage with my wife is actually his. Vinny lives his life through others' stories. Much of his fabricated reality though  is due to the effects brought on by drugs and alcohol.

       I  believe that just as the author has stated, that drugs  play an important role on the growing number of people portraying a Truman syndrome personality. In a day and age when advertisement is forced upon us our minds become susceptable; especially when on alcohol or drugs.                      

Three Artifacts

http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#undefinedVideo games can sharpen cognitive and motor skills but many times they create a virtual simulation of reality; where one believes they are actually there in the game. Played often enough some believe that the game is what their life is. Take for example Grand Theft Auto. Gamers who played this game repeatedly where often found to have acted those same senerios when not playing the game. They were unable to differentiate between the game and reality. In there minds life was the game and the game was life.  We should also take a look at the Wii game. hardware made for the game allows one to interact with the game as if it was real.

Warrior Archetype

    Always felt  i should be fighting for what is right. That good will always prevail over evil, right will triumph over wrong. I look at things in black and white, not the color that many people see or want. Standing in the trenches leading and fighting for my believes, defending those who need to be stood up for. Born into the world at a time where character and integrity meant something and was taught to me by my father. My father always helped those who needed it, and i;  i try to do the same. A warrior is one that steps forward to do battle. Sometimes with weaponry and often in the line of fire, with or without a plan of action, but with no hesitation.  People respect me for they see that i stand up for others, that i lead by example.                 Warriors lead the charge and will not stop until victory has been achieved.

        Take for example the character that John Wayne portrays in many of his movies. Such as in McQ. Here he is a police detective investigating the murder of his friend. The investigation leads him to find that narcotics and corruption was at all levels of the department. Here he soon finds out that he is just not fighting the mob and protecting the public from them, he now goes to war with the police force and the friends he once thought stood for the same values, to battle wrong, to protect the innocent from harm.