Blog #2; The world vs Virtual World

When I started out reading Culture Jam, I was in a state of shock because the stories and topics are so true.  The author is telling the truth about the world that no one wants to admit and actually face the reality of it all.  In Culture Jam, "Mood Disorders, it was stated that "most of us spend the majority of our time in some ethereal place created from fantasy and want." Most people do go to a world they live in that is fantasy and hide behind it.  They can express themselves more freely and not worry what others will think about them.  They have their own fantasys and a way to go to that world is through electronic media, video games.  I feel that is always happening, most people do play video games to go to their own place to get away and hide behind real life.  They don't want to face life and don't experience the nature of life.  In "Second Skin", the D2L videos, they enhance the facts stated in Culture Jam.  People create a place of fantasy and live in it through games, spending hours upon hours in it.  The people of the D2L videos, admitted that they "always go back to the game because they don't want to deal with life."  Sometimes real life is better then virtual world, they can't hide forever.  In "Posthuman", the passage is just stating more facts that game addicts start up a virtual world and then lose sight of the natural world.  Our world is growing fast with the new mass media technology and consuming people's lives. They lose the sight of the nature around them and become an "alien or outsider" in the real world.  Gamers feel like they have the power to say what they want and do what they want in their virtual world.  It maybe easy for gamers to live in their virtual world, but its not easy to get out of their virtual world.
I don't play video games so I wouldn't know how addictive these games are.  Most of my guy friends are the ones that spend some of their time playing games like World of Warcraft or Black Ops.  They play yes, to get away from life and relax, freeing their minds.  Although, they also play just to play and make time pass by.  It's crazy to think that these people play ALL the time, for hour on end.

Intro of Me, Allie

Hi!! My name is Allie, it is not short for Alison, it is just Allie.  I am a Junior here at Ship, majoring in Communications/Journalism with a Minor in Business.  I am a member of PRSSA and I have written a few stories for the Slate.  I love to ski when I have the time, I swim for exercise as well as run.  Over the summer was the only time I was able to read for fun.  I love to read mysteries, thrillers and fiction books.  I think the last book I read was Change of Heart by Jodi Picult and before that I read the Charleine Harris book series based on the HBO show True Blood.  I took this class to fill in a Gen Ed. elective, but I chose this class because I like to read and talk about what happened in the books.  Throughout my high school career I took Lit classes as well as my freshman year in college.  I am always into and interested in popular culture such as television, movies and music.  I am a big movie buff, I love to watch movies.  I love to listen to music, new and old.  In my opinion, I feel literature is about reading, writing and bringing ideas of books, poems, song lyrics or anything together.  I feel literature is to get a better understanding of certain things and ideas.