Monday, April 8, 2013

I'm Bored.......Entertain Me




In today’s culture we have to be entertained all the time.  If we aren’t on our computers, we are on our phones, watching tv, playing with our i(insert device here), or listening to music.  If we ever came across someone sitting in complete silence, just sitting there, we would not know what to do.  We most likely would pull our phones out and answer a fake text.  With electronics constantly being updated, kids grow up with a phone in one hand and an electronic game in the other.  We cannot go out to dinner without checking our phone or if anyone “liked” our picture yet. 
I am not the only one to realize this trend; the media knows that’s how to get through to people.  We all have come so accustomed to believing anything we read on the internet.  News channels report the news, but we just believe what they are saying without even questioning if the facts are true.  It seems like a lot of the news is bias to the reporter and doesn’t get the whole story.  This can be dangerous when it comes to things like reporting the war.  It even has its own name now: “Militainment”.  When important news has become a spectacle for the “audience”, instead of news about our life.  When it comes down to it, today’s society just wants to be entertained.  No one wants to be bored, but yet we constantly are….no matter how many things there are for us to do.

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