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.
"easy for gamers to live... not easy to get out of their virtual world" -- wow, this is intriguing! To make it relatable to those of us who are not gamers, I wonder how easy it would be to get out of the media and technologically-driven reality? At least the gamers are looking for an outlet for expression. Are we even more out of touch with reality?
ReplyDelete"It maybe easy for gamers to live in their virtual world, but its not easy to get out of their virtual world." I REALLY like this statement! I think that gamers have trouble getting out of such a vicious cycle, just as a smoker may have trouble quitting. I mean, why get out of something that they have become so familiar and comfortable with, even if it is making them miserable? I also like Olivia's comment above--would it be just as difficult for us to drop our technology? Personally, I think it would be quite hard. I went only a day without a computer last semester, but had felt like someone had chopped my right arm off. I didn't realize how dependent I was on it until I lost it.
ReplyDeleteI don't play video games too much either! And I was so shocked at how consumed they were by the game. I couldn't get over the "mood disorders" in the book, I actually read it to people at my work, and a lot of people could relate to it!
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