Do you feel that you’ve been conditioned to be a certain way or look a certain way? How so? Now that you have some exposure to the truth that what we have been striving for is not real but created, how do you feel? If you think its important, how should we educate others?
Yes i do feel that I’ve been somewhat conditioned to be a certain way. As much as i may think that I’m not, there’s still a little voice in the back of my head that comes up every once in a while and tells me what i should wear, how i should act, and what things i should say. I’m proud to say that the voice is only getting quieter and quieter. =) It’s the media which i can now see, isn’t even real, and celebrities that think that just because they have money, they have a life worth living for. I don’t feel much different. I guess i always knew that it was fake. If not that, it’s probably my simply refusing to believe it because of people telling me how beautiful i look being myself. Media arts is a great way to educate people. And as a way for people to visually see this, there could be an assignment in which we actually change a picture of ourselves and see what’s real, and what’s not. It would be fun, and pretty shocking to some people.
Bonus Task # 2
