People base the meaning of a good and meaningful life on their personal experiences and what they view around them. Everyday people are exposed to different points of view on what is considered to be a good and meaningful life. The media has a huge impact on what is socially accepted as a “good” and/or “meaningful” life. No one person can help but to be influenced by the world they live in to think a good and meaningful is to be "successful and rich" or to "be oneself," it is those types of "brainwashing ideas" from birth that makes a person think they know what a good and meaningful life is and how to live one.
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
In a class discussion, we talked about the true meaning of Thanksgiving and we came up with the idea that Thanksgiving is "a day of genocide and people thank god for killing off all the Indians so we [Americans] could take their land." To experiment with this idea... During my family's Thanksgiving dinner I decided to pose the question, What is the real meaning of Thanksgiving? Wasn't it just a day of genocide? I was very surprised by my mother's reaction, who I thought would agree with my thoughts on the whole holiday. But instead she had other points of view. She became very defensive about the idea that Thanksgiving may have been a day of feasting and sharing food but ended in killing Native Americans for land. She started telling me that that's not true, "Thanksgiving is a day of thanks, when people gather around and feast together, not so much about killing of the indigenous people." Even though that is what the "white people" did in the end. I really thought my mom would be more open minded about other interpretations of Thanksgiving. If she is usually open minded about other topics (i.e.) why did she suddenly change her mind about thinking openly about Thanksgiving?
Corporate culture's traditions such as, Black Friday, also known as "Buy Nothing Day," has become part of corporate culture in America. It is the day after Thanksgiving when most stores have huge sales, thus luring people to go out and spend unbelievable amounts of money on items they probably don't need. It is just another made up "holiday" to get people to buy more plastic, believing everything they buy will somehow make their lives more meaningful. Why do people get so crazed over sale items? Shopping? Cheap shopping?
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl. In corproate culture you do not see the roles of males and females often switching. It has become part of our culture as Americans to believe that the man is stronger and the woman is weaker, the man is in control and the woman is helpless. But marginal messages often are about breaking this stereotype between men and women and giving women more power and showing that women can be a bit more masculine.
Another movie we are currently watching in class is called, "Pump-up the Volume" made in the 1990's by New Line Cinema and S. C. Entertainment. In this film there is a teenage boy who has a pirate radio broadcast in which he presents an illegal talk show. On the radio he goes by "Hard on Harry" and tells his listeners what he beleives is the truth about life and the world they live in. He talks about his day and all the things adults, parents, and teachers expect from teens such as themselves. His first statement on his radio show goes something like this: "Everything in America is completely fucked up...violent...schools, government, environment" everything is corrupt. He also says to "eat ceral with a fork and do you homework in the dark." He offers the marginal thought(s) and message(s) on how someone could live thier life. On his radio show he, in a free-form way, informs and educates the teenagers in this "sleepy town" about life behond school; the lives they are living. "HoH" says that the "life" everyone expects, the good and meaningful life, is to "get happy, get a girlfriend and write a best seller." That is the equivlent of living in the suburbs married with kids; in a big house with a white picket fense. It is the "life" being presented by coporate culture in thier society. "Life of a teenager...you have parents and teachers telling you what to do, movies and magazines and t.v. telling you what to do, but you know what you need to do, purpose in life, get a cute girlfrned and think of something great to do." "Suicide→ the uncomplicated, simple solution." "At least the pain is real." Unlike most things in life, feeling some sort of emotion, like pain, is proof that there is some real aspect to life.
HoH has a solution to teen problems, NOT to go out and kill yourself, but instead he says to "do something crazy, go nuts, get crazy!"
Dec 22, 2008
Dec 10, 2008
People base the meaning of a good and meaningful life on their personal experiences and what they view around them. Everyday people are exposed to different points of view on what is considered to be a good and meaningful life. The media has a huge impact on what is socially accepted as a “good” and/or “meaningful” life. No one person can help but to be influenced by the world they live in to think a good and meaningful is to be "successful and rich" or to "be oneself," it is those types of "brainwashing ideas" from birth that makes a person think they know what a good and meaningful life is and how to live one.
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
In a class discussion, we talked about the true meaning of Thanksgiving and we came up with the idea that Thanksgiving is "a day of genocide and people thank god for killing off all the Indians so we [Americans] could take their land." To experiment with this idea... During my family's Thanksgiving dinner I decided to pose the question, What is the real meaning of Thanksgiving? Wasn't it just a day of genocide? I was very surprised by my mother's reaction, who I thought would agree with my thoughts on the whole holiday. But instead she had other points of view. She became very defensive about the idea that Thanksgiving may have been a day of feasting and sharing food but ended in killing Native Americans for land. She started telling me that that's not true, "Thanksgiving is a day of thanks, when people gather around and feast together, not so much about killing of the indigenous people." Even though that is what the "white people" did in the end. I really thought my mom would be more open minded about other interpretations of Thanksgiving. If she is usually open minded about other topics (i.e.) why did she suddenly change her mind about thinking openly about Thanksgiving?
Corporate culture's traditions such as, Black Friday, also known as "Buy Nothing Day," has become part of corporate culture in America. It is the day after Thanksgiving when most stores have huge sales, thus luring people to go out and spend unbelievable amounts of money on items they probably don't need. It is just another made up "holiday" to get people to buy more plastic, believing everything they buy will somehow make their lives more meaningful. Why do people get so crazed over sale items? Shopping? Cheap shopping?
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl. In corproate culture you do not see the roles of males and females often switching. It has become part of our culture as Americans to believe that the man is stronger and the woman is weaker, the man is in control and the woman is helpless. But marginal messages often are about breaking this stereotype between men and women and giving women more power and showing that women can be a bit more masculine.
Another movie we are currently watching in class is called, "Pump-up the Volume" made in the 1990's by New Line Cinema and S. C. Entertainment. In this film there is a teenage boy who has a pirate radio broadcast in which he presents an illegal talk show. On the radio he goes by "Hard on Harry" and tells his listeners what he beleives is the truth about life and the world they live in. He talks about his day and all the things adults, parents, and teachers expect from teens such as themselves. "Everything in America is completely fucked up...violent...schools, government, environment" everything is corrupt. He also says to "eat ceral with a fork and do you homework in the dark." On his radio show he, in a free-form way, informs and educates the teenagers in this "sleepy town" about life behond school; the lives they are living.
Ideas that could be expanded:
Black Friday → Buy Nothing Day → we buy so much, we waste so much → why do we keep doig this to the world?
Its all about the ratio of pressure. People are followers, for example, if 6/10 girls are for the idea of "getting a tattoo is cool", the chances are other girls will also start to think tattoos are cool because they want to do what the other girls are doing. You can't expect people to go against the ratio of pressure. Every culture has a ratio of pressure.
Outside of a Walmart in Long Island a crowd about about 2,000 people bum-rushed the doors at 5am → a man died → it is a primal way of living → "humans are savages."
Excessive consumerism → result in the future → our economy gets worse
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
In a class discussion, we talked about the true meaning of Thanksgiving and we came up with the idea that Thanksgiving is "a day of genocide and people thank god for killing off all the Indians so we [Americans] could take their land." To experiment with this idea... During my family's Thanksgiving dinner I decided to pose the question, What is the real meaning of Thanksgiving? Wasn't it just a day of genocide? I was very surprised by my mother's reaction, who I thought would agree with my thoughts on the whole holiday. But instead she had other points of view. She became very defensive about the idea that Thanksgiving may have been a day of feasting and sharing food but ended in killing Native Americans for land. She started telling me that that's not true, "Thanksgiving is a day of thanks, when people gather around and feast together, not so much about killing of the indigenous people." Even though that is what the "white people" did in the end. I really thought my mom would be more open minded about other interpretations of Thanksgiving. If she is usually open minded about other topics (i.e.) why did she suddenly change her mind about thinking openly about Thanksgiving?
Corporate culture's traditions such as, Black Friday, also known as "Buy Nothing Day," has become part of corporate culture in America. It is the day after Thanksgiving when most stores have huge sales, thus luring people to go out and spend unbelievable amounts of money on items they probably don't need. It is just another made up "holiday" to get people to buy more plastic, believing everything they buy will somehow make their lives more meaningful. Why do people get so crazed over sale items? Shopping? Cheap shopping?
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl. In corproate culture you do not see the roles of males and females often switching. It has become part of our culture as Americans to believe that the man is stronger and the woman is weaker, the man is in control and the woman is helpless. But marginal messages often are about breaking this stereotype between men and women and giving women more power and showing that women can be a bit more masculine.
Another movie we are currently watching in class is called, "Pump-up the Volume" made in the 1990's by New Line Cinema and S. C. Entertainment. In this film there is a teenage boy who has a pirate radio broadcast in which he presents an illegal talk show. On the radio he goes by "Hard on Harry" and tells his listeners what he beleives is the truth about life and the world they live in. He talks about his day and all the things adults, parents, and teachers expect from teens such as themselves. "Everything in America is completely fucked up...violent...schools, government, environment" everything is corrupt. He also says to "eat ceral with a fork and do you homework in the dark." On his radio show he, in a free-form way, informs and educates the teenagers in this "sleepy town" about life behond school; the lives they are living.
Ideas that could be expanded:
Black Friday → Buy Nothing Day → we buy so much, we waste so much → why do we keep doig this to the world?
Its all about the ratio of pressure. People are followers, for example, if 6/10 girls are for the idea of "getting a tattoo is cool", the chances are other girls will also start to think tattoos are cool because they want to do what the other girls are doing. You can't expect people to go against the ratio of pressure. Every culture has a ratio of pressure.
Outside of a Walmart in Long Island a crowd about about 2,000 people bum-rushed the doors at 5am → a man died → it is a primal way of living → "humans are savages."
Excessive consumerism → result in the future → our economy gets worse
Dec 2, 2008
What Do People See as a Good and Meaningful life? (Thanksgiving & Buy Nothing Day added)
People base the meaning of a good and meaningful life on their personal experiences and what they view around them. Everyday people are exposed to different points of view on what is considered to be a good and meaningful life. The media has a huge impact on what is socially accepted as a “good” and/or “meaningful” life. No one person can help but to be influenced by the world they live in to think a good and meaningful is to be "successful and rich" or to "be oneself," it is those types of "brainwashing ideas" from birth that makes a person think they know what a good and meaningful life is and how to live one.
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl. In corproate culture you do not see the roles of males and females often switching. It has become part of our culture as Americans to believe that the man is stronger and the woman is weaker, the man is in control and the woman is helpless. But marginal messages often are about breaking this stereotype between men and women and giving women more power and showing that women can be a bit more masculine.
In a class discussion, we talked about the true meaning of Thanksgiving and we came up with the idea that Thanksgiving is "a day of genocide and people thank god for killing off all the Indians so we [Americans] could take their land." To experiment with this idea... During my family's Thanksgiving dinner I decided to pose the question, What is the real meaning of Thanksgiving? Wasn't it just a day of genocide? I was very surprised by my mother's reaction, who I thought would agree with my thoughts on the whole holiday. But instead she had other points of view. She became very defensive about the idea that Thanksgiving may have been a day of feasting and sharing food but ended in killing Native Americans for land. She started telling me that that's not true, "Thanksgiving is a day of thanks, when people gather around and feast together, not so much about killing of the indigenous people." Even though that is what the "white people" did in the end. I really thought my mom would be more open minded about other interpretations of Thanksgiving. If she is usually open minded about other topics (i.e.) why did she suddenly change her mind about thinking openly about Thanksgiving?
Corporate culture's traditions such as, Black Friday, also known as "Buy Nothing Day," has become part of corporate culture in America. It is the day after Thanksgiving when most stores have huge sales, thus luring people to go out and spend unbelievable amounts of money on items they probably don't need. It is just another made up "holiday" to get people to buy more plastic, believing everything they buy will somehow make their lives more meaningful. Why do people get so crazed over sale items? Shopping? Cheap shopping?
Ideas to expand upon:
Black Friday → Buy Nothing Day → we buy so much, we waste so much → why do we keep doig this to the world?
Its all about the ratio of pressure. People are followers, for example, if 6/10 girls are for the idea of "getting a tattoo is cool", the chances are other girls will also start to think tattoos are cool because they want to do what the other girls are doing. You can't expect people to go against the ratio of pressure. Every culture has a ratio of pressure.
Outside of a Walmart in Long Island a crowd about about 2,000 people bum-rushed the doors at 5am → a man died → it is a primal way of living → "humans are savages."
Excessive consumerism → result in the future → our economy gets worse
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl. In corproate culture you do not see the roles of males and females often switching. It has become part of our culture as Americans to believe that the man is stronger and the woman is weaker, the man is in control and the woman is helpless. But marginal messages often are about breaking this stereotype between men and women and giving women more power and showing that women can be a bit more masculine.
In a class discussion, we talked about the true meaning of Thanksgiving and we came up with the idea that Thanksgiving is "a day of genocide and people thank god for killing off all the Indians so we [Americans] could take their land." To experiment with this idea... During my family's Thanksgiving dinner I decided to pose the question, What is the real meaning of Thanksgiving? Wasn't it just a day of genocide? I was very surprised by my mother's reaction, who I thought would agree with my thoughts on the whole holiday. But instead she had other points of view. She became very defensive about the idea that Thanksgiving may have been a day of feasting and sharing food but ended in killing Native Americans for land. She started telling me that that's not true, "Thanksgiving is a day of thanks, when people gather around and feast together, not so much about killing of the indigenous people." Even though that is what the "white people" did in the end. I really thought my mom would be more open minded about other interpretations of Thanksgiving. If she is usually open minded about other topics (i.e.) why did she suddenly change her mind about thinking openly about Thanksgiving?
Corporate culture's traditions such as, Black Friday, also known as "Buy Nothing Day," has become part of corporate culture in America. It is the day after Thanksgiving when most stores have huge sales, thus luring people to go out and spend unbelievable amounts of money on items they probably don't need. It is just another made up "holiday" to get people to buy more plastic, believing everything they buy will somehow make their lives more meaningful. Why do people get so crazed over sale items? Shopping? Cheap shopping?
Ideas to expand upon:
Black Friday → Buy Nothing Day → we buy so much, we waste so much → why do we keep doig this to the world?
Its all about the ratio of pressure. People are followers, for example, if 6/10 girls are for the idea of "getting a tattoo is cool", the chances are other girls will also start to think tattoos are cool because they want to do what the other girls are doing. You can't expect people to go against the ratio of pressure. Every culture has a ratio of pressure.
Outside of a Walmart in Long Island a crowd about about 2,000 people bum-rushed the doors at 5am → a man died → it is a primal way of living → "humans are savages."
Excessive consumerism → result in the future → our economy gets worse
People base the meaning of a good and meaningful life on their personal experiences and what they view around them. Everyday people are exposed to different points of view on what is considered to be a good and meaningful life. The media has a huge impact on what is socially accepted as a “good” and/or “meaningful” life. No one person can help but to be influenced by the world they live in to think a good and meaningful is to be "successful and rich" or to "be oneself," it is those types of "brainwashing ideas" from birth that makes a person think they know what a good and meaningful life is and how to live one.
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl.
Black Friday, also known as "Buy nothing day," has become part of coporoate
My definition of a good and meaningful life is, sad to say, mostly based on what corporate culture has told me what a good and meaningful life is, along with some folk culture. I say this because it is completely true, probably from the moment I was born corporate culture has had the largest impact on the way I live my life. Corporate culture has shown me the "good" way to live a "happy and problem free" life. I believe corporate culture has affected me through the television and the shows I watch, also through music and magazines. I watch, listen, and read about all the ways I can "make my life better..." and these various medias inform me on how this is possible.
I would like to think that I can up with this idea of how to live a good and meaningful life on my own but I was probably influenced by corporate culture to think this way, I do not know for sure. But I believe a good and meaningful life is being happy and at peace with myself. I need to understand myself in order to live a good and meaningful life. As I continue to listen to corporate culture's idea of a good and meaningful life, I, as many people may have started to notice, one of corporate culture's many messages is "to be your true self" but how can you be your true self if you do what the media tells one to do? I feel that this message can be contradicted by one's own inner thoughts. When you think about it, corporate cultures is telling you to be yourself, but in order to be yourself, you should already be yourself by not listen to corporate culture telling you to be yourself. I also feel that at one point in my life it may be necessary that I become successful in some area of my interests. I think that being successful in a area of my interest such as art would make my life more meaningful. Being successful in the art and in photography world would make me happy and I believe that would be living a good life, I would be enjoying doing what I love to do everyday. If I was not successful with my art, I think that I would still enjoy life and I would still believe that my life is meaningful, I would just have to find another way to make a living. For example I would just find another job and still enjoy taking pictures on the side, as a hobby. I believe money is important because that is how ours society functions, but if I was not able to make money with my artwork I would just find another job to support myself, even if it had to be non-art related.
To get other points of view on what makes a good and meaningful life and as a part of this class course, we went outside and interviewed people who were walking down the street. Through several quick interviews, I was able to get a brief understanding of what people believe is a meaningful life. When I posed the question: What is the most meaningful aspect of your life? Many answered back that their family was the most meaningful thing in their life. But they didn't really give a detailed explanation why family is meaningful to them. Only one man mentioned that his family is always there for him and that the purpose of family is to support each other. I believe that man is living a good and meaningful life because he knows why his family meaningful his life. He has a reason. Many of the other people I interviewed said that family was important to them as well but they did not explain further, even if I asked another question for further explanation. I think that people think family is important to them because that has been the main corporate culture messages for years. Family always comes first. So they feel they have not real explanation for the importance of family in their life because according to corporate media family is just important to your life, they don't really know why, it just is. My guess is that none of them have actually been asked that question, why is your family important or meaningful to your life? They have not thought about their family like that, with meaning or importance, people think family is just a group of people who have a close relation to you, no questions asked.
The internet is a huge corporate culture invention. The internet advertizes anything anyone could think of buying, selling, and spreading. When you search a topic on google, the right side of the page is usually a list of links to pages that may relate to the topic being searched. Corporate culture is continuously trying to spread the messages of buying things that "will make your life better." The internet advertises all types of corporate culture messages but not so many marginal messages and prohibited messages are almost never advertised. As soon as you go online, let's just say you go to check your e-mail, log on to yahoo.com and as soon as the page loads, there is a box in the center of the page with some sort of current news that the internet corporations are trying to shove down your throat by putting it right in your face. There is a moving advertisement for Visa Cards, Target shopping deals, Bluefly.com, The O. Below that advertisement there is another for popular videos, trying to get people to go on their website and watch ridiculous videos and to boost the online companies ratings. Next to that there is an add for Netflix "only $4.99/month" trying to lure people into the great deals they want to offer. All of these advertisements are on one internet page. So when you go to check your e-mail you most likely get distracted by all of they other corporate culture messages being offered you don't get around to checking you e-mail until after you have checked out the "great" offers available. Corporate cultures message here, that they advertise online is trying to get people to spend more and more money and making the consumer think they got the best deal out of it.
Movies/films are another way for corporate culture to send messages to people. Movies like High School Musical, Joe Dirt, Cinderella, Superbad, Saving Grace, Wanted.
Wanted is about a man named Wesley Gibson who works as an account manager. He feels that his life is average, boring, and he believes he is a “nobody.” One day he is abruptly introduced to an assassin named Fox, who tries to recruit him into the Fraternity. But along the way, Cross an ex-Fraternity member, attempts to separate Wesley from the Fraternity, his actions are mistaken for an assassination attempt. Meanwhile Wesley is being trained to become an assassin, but must first undergo a series of sessions with the “Repairman,” who beats him up until Wesley realizes his true reason for being at the Fraternity. Wesley ends up confessing to Fox, his reason for being at the Fraternity, during another session with the Repairman, Wesley has been asked “Why are you here?” and his response was “I don’t know who I am.” Throughout the film Wesley trains to become an assassin and along the way figures out who he is and his importance in life.
Marginal messages can be seen through movies, such as Foxfire, where roles of males and females are switched. The switching of roles is not as common as it may seem and sometimes the message the movie sends to the public is not as accepted by society as the main message corporate culture sends out. For example a scene from Foxfire is when there is a nude guy being photographed by a girl.
Black Friday, also known as "Buy nothing day," has become part of coporoate
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