my paper

Bryanna Wright 11-5-09
11-D4

Digital use is something that has become more and more popular over time. As days come and go some argue that digital use is good for us, while others argue that that it is not. Current sources try to show us that digital use are more bad then they are good. Sources tend to show that we depend on digital use so much that it brainwashes us, which causes us to live unhealthy lifestyles. Internet, music, and movies are sources that come off as things that control us by telling us what to wear, how to act, and who to be.
Internet is a digitalization that we use to connect with other people. While trying to connect with other people we don’t realize what we are doing. We don’t realize that we change who we are or add more interesting details to make ourselves seem more important then other people really think we are. By using Myspace and Facebook we create false profiles to conform into someone that we are not. The Internet is away to enter a world that allows us to forget about the “real” world. “We text all the time instead of talking to the person right in front of us and we rather take Facebook photos and flaunt our fakeness instead of being original and not relying on digital media to keep us entertained”(from Stephanie Forgarty-Yee). Getting more of accomplishment on Facebook, like when someone change their status and people comment on what they are doing, just giving them more attention. When trying to connect with people it is easier to tell them who you are through the digital world then through talking to them in person. When talking through the digital world people can’t really judge you nor can they tell when you are lying, whereas if you talk in person they can tell if you are lying by your tone, body movements, etc. There is more of acknowledge between two people when talking in the digital world. You can connect by the smallest thing; jobs, what you like to do on your free-time, music, movies etc. By using Internet to connecting with people we hide behind the real us to show the new created one.
Music often tends to brainwash us as while. In music they talk about things to keep mindless kids superficial. Artist today sing about telling people what to buy, as while as how life would be so much better if they had x, y, and z. In the movie Josie and that Pussycats the music company used the Pussycats music to board cast what was the latest things. They had a hidden message under the real music so that people would not know it was in there. [Josie, Melody and Valerie listen to the song snippet they just recorded, now with subliminal messages] 

Melody: I want a Big Mac!
Valerie: But, Mel, you're a vegetarian.
Melody: I know, but suddenly I want one!
After hearing that song Melody was brainwashed to like something that she usually does not like, or would have not thought about if she did not listen to the song. This happens to many people around the world. Today’s music make kids want to buy things they really don’t need, say things that are rude, tell them how to be successful, as well as how to love. Then after listening to these artist tell you how you should be people start to find ways to become this person. People started to become more and more superficial. Not caring about what other people have to give but about how they look. And movies don’t make it better.
The idea of a movie is to tell a story. Which is why we all like movies because we all feel that there will be a movie that explains what we feel as people. So we go and pay 12 dollars to see a movie that just may be the life we are real living. However Wall-E there was something a little different, this was one of the who knows how many movies that tried to show us that we are kind of living life as lazy, fat, unworking, unappreicate people. In the movie the people could not walk they had to be moved by a chair that moves on it own, they ate their food in a shak form way so that they would not have to chew, and if they had to change their clothes they just pressed a button on their chair that changed it for them. But the part that really made me think about how we live is when the ear/ head graud was removed from the person’s face their colthes want back to what they had on before, and they could see that they we being control by the digitl things around them. A writer Bert Brecht said "Art is not a Mirror with which to reflect the World. It is a Hammer with which to shape it" I agree but yet I disagree. I feel that art does reflect some parts of life as well as the world. I feel that art shows us things that we try and act like don't happen like war, killing, and even rape. So I do think art is a mirror that reflects the world. But I also feel that art is a hammer in which we use to shape the world. I do feel that the movie Wall-E is a type of art in which shapes to us to see that we could end up not living life the best way.
In the end there are many ways to show how we use the digital world to control, inpact, and inslave us as peopele. We try so hard to say that it doesn’t but it does, we depend on digital use so much that it brainwashes us, which causes us to live unhealthy lifestyles. Digitalization turns us into someone that we are not, helps us make decisions, and mak us lazy fat people.