I think that the world the media portrays is simply an exaggerated version of our own, simply seeing a guy make himself toast and eggs for breakfast isn't going to make anyone stop and take notice and it certainly isn't going to make anyone think. Oddly enough, I think that however much we hate the extremism of the media as a whole, It all may simply be reactionary to the progressive idea, the story that exaggerates, and in order to keep up, the news, the psudo-news, and entertainment all have to move up a step. We can complain all we want about violence in the media or perfect models on magazine covers, but they are only there because we would likely not take notice of anything less. Because a certain amount of legitimacy is lost when the media evolves to anything above a face to face conversation, we feel we have to hold things to higher standards of extremism.
The media's models and concepts embodies the pot of gold sitting directly above the glass ceiling. Only in this case, the glass ceiling is shatterproof.
We all wish to reach perfection in one way or another, and psychologically being reminded of what that perfection is suppose to be has a very powerful influence on us.
It should portray its models as they are in real life, but it should not be forced to. The media today is like art during the period of Romanticism: idealized and representative of the "golden age" that has not, is not and will not ever occur.
Personally, I think it shows that our society has an incorrect perception on what perfection really is. It is not something to be dictated, but rather the concept which you as an individual choose to always be just an arm's reach away but unreachable. Trying to shoot for perfection can be useful to boost ambition and promote success, but I believe the perfection portrayed by the media does exactly the opposite and only makes people dislike themselves due to how they look or how others perceive them.
I think that the world the media portrays is simply an exaggerated version of our own, simply seeing a guy make himself toast and eggs for breakfast isn't going to make anyone stop and take notice and it certainly isn't going to make anyone think. Oddly enough, I think that however much we hate the extremism of the media as a whole, It all may simply be reactionary to the progressive idea, the story that exaggerates, and in order to keep up, the news, the psudo-news, and entertainment all have to move up a step. We can complain all we want about violence in the media or perfect models on magazine covers, but they are only there because we would likely not take notice of anything less. Because a certain amount of legitimacy is lost when the media evolves to anything above a face to face conversation, we feel we have to hold things to higher standards of extremism.
ReplyDeleteThe media's models and concepts embodies the pot of gold sitting directly above the glass ceiling. Only in this case, the glass ceiling is shatterproof.
ReplyDeleteWe all wish to reach perfection in one way or another, and psychologically being reminded of what that perfection is suppose to be has a very powerful influence on us.
It should portray its models as they are in real life, but it should not be forced to. The media today is like art during the period of Romanticism: idealized and representative of the "golden age" that has not, is not and will not ever occur.
Personally, I think it shows that our society has an incorrect perception on what perfection really is. It is not something to be dictated, but rather the concept which you as an individual choose to always be just an arm's reach away but unreachable. Trying to shoot for perfection can be useful to boost ambition and promote success, but I believe the perfection portrayed by the media does exactly the opposite and only makes people dislike themselves due to how they look or how others perceive them.