Okay, well good morning everyone! Hope you slept well and your weekend was a good one! Well I’m not really sure exactly which prompt I will be answering, it might be in-between but I guess we’ll see as I start writing, so here we go!
I just want to start out my saying that the video we watched on Friday was crazy! All this statistics they presented us, made me think about how, as a society, we really are moving into a new era. One statistic presented was “Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total population of the planet.” That number is just absurd, although I am one of those “crazy teens” who spend a majority of their time texting, it never hit me the number of texts sent and received daily was that large. Also, I never knew how effective the internet was and really how much people used it to do. Like the statistic that “1 out of 8 couples married last year met online.” It’s almost like if someone really cannot find something or in this case, someone then they look online because you can find “everything” on the Internet, I just never knew how undefined the “everything” was. It is sort of scary to see how much people rely on the Internet for.
According to Dr. Alan Kirby’s the new era we are about to enter into is called Pseudo-modernism. Kirby states that “In postmodernism, one read, watched, listened, as before. In pseudo-modernism one phones, clicks, presses, surfs, chooses, moves, downloads.” His insight is just further confirming that we are on our way to becoming completely dependent on technology and such other things. America has transformed drastically and so has the lifestyle. Like if you ask any teenager to just give up their cell phone, computer, Internet and television I think they would have a heart-attack, myself included. We as a society have become so dependent on technology and I just hope we don’t turn into a Brave New World society at this rate.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Cat's Cradle
Hello and Good morning everyone! Well I really like Cat’s Cradle so far. It’s interesting, easy to read and is not about little 5 year olds doing the nasty so it is way better to me than the other books we’ve read so far. It is not about anything out of the ordinary; like babies being made on a factory line or a dictator watching very closely after everyone so it doesn’t creep me out and I like it! Haha so yeah here’s my blog…
Despite Cat’s Cradle being completely different from any of the other books that we’ve read so far this year; it does have its similarities. One thing that stood out to me was how alike Brave New World, Cat’s Cradle, also has a “group”. In BNW it was all the social classes that they were born into and in Cat’s Cradle they have a “karass” which comes from the Bokonon religion; “We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon...” This reminds me of how in BWN they were born into a class based on what they could accomplish and what type of person they were and to me the groups in Cat’s Cradle seem to be pretty darn similar.
Also, it is like Postmodernism because it seems to view religion as being fake and not real. For the entire beginning of the book Jonah is saying that he was Christian until he came upon the Bokonon way. The Bokonon religion more or less is a sarcastic approach of Kurt Vonnegut to make up his own imaginary religion, in a way mock people. In Bokonon’s religion it is said that we are connected through a specific karass but in Christianity we are connected by groups of people who form together to grow and learn about their religion. The way he talks about religion seems to me like he is commenting that no religion is truthful and the only thing that is true is Science and Research.
Despite Cat’s Cradle being completely different from any of the other books that we’ve read so far this year; it does have its similarities. One thing that stood out to me was how alike Brave New World, Cat’s Cradle, also has a “group”. In BNW it was all the social classes that they were born into and in Cat’s Cradle they have a “karass” which comes from the Bokonon religion; “We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon...” This reminds me of how in BWN they were born into a class based on what they could accomplish and what type of person they were and to me the groups in Cat’s Cradle seem to be pretty darn similar.
Also, it is like Postmodernism because it seems to view religion as being fake and not real. For the entire beginning of the book Jonah is saying that he was Christian until he came upon the Bokonon way. The Bokonon religion more or less is a sarcastic approach of Kurt Vonnegut to make up his own imaginary religion, in a way mock people. In Bokonon’s religion it is said that we are connected through a specific karass but in Christianity we are connected by groups of people who form together to grow and learn about their religion. The way he talks about religion seems to me like he is commenting that no religion is truthful and the only thing that is true is Science and Research.
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