Over the course of the semester, we covered various topics in class. Our eyes were opened to the pure ignorance and sometimes capacity for evil our fellow mankind could fester. In Culture jam, Lasn opened the door to controlling corporation, and the concept of Plenitude. There are so many things I didn’t even know about the United States of America, but from what we’ve been reading and thinking critically about, it seems that it isn’t united on the right terms anymore. This country has become a materialistic-zombified nation, becoming so numb to even the most gruesome movies such as Saw, or Human Centipede.
The documentaries we watched revealed the new and vast cyber frontier that is quickly unfolding before us. This course has challenged us to think critically about the messages encrypted within the timeless novels we have read. Bradbury and Vonnegut both had a critical eye about how our government and society was operating. Their books were written over 30 years ago, and they still hit the nail on the head to this day. We were informed of the Banned list of novels in the USA.
The material covered seems to reveal how much our freedom, may not really be there at all. Our privacy, our freedoms of press, all have their own limits. Are we becoming hypocrites of what our ancestors originally set out to prove? Is this really the home of the free and the brave? Or is it now, the Home of the unsatisfied, and greedy.
