Post for Friday 23

The video about new world order that we watched on Tuesday was very eye opening. At first i was confused about what they ment when they said a new world order and i'm still not completely sure i know what they mean. I thought it was interesting that they put chips in people, i had no idea that they actually did this. I think that the video closely related to the book Feed. I dont completely agree with "chipping" people. I think that it is wrong to track peoples every move, or just to have one for security reasons. I dont think that chipping people will help crime rates or anything like that. I also think that if do we start to chip people more and more it will become not only for security reasons. I strongly feel that people today get what they want to get. I think that if enough people want to invent a chip to work with your body to somehow play a radio like in Fahrenheit 451 that it will be invented. I cant help but think that this all leads back to Culture Jam. The media and growth of technology is where it all begins. People become sooo consumed, there is nothing left to consume you have to invent more things. Overall i think that this class has been a very good experience, and i would recommend it. It made me think of a lot of things in a new way, and made me think about things that i am doing daily and their impacts.

Post for Friday 16th

I thought it was very interesting when we found out that Montag was hiding the books in his house and he was sneaking books from every fire that he had to start. I think that it is ironic but i see where hes coming, because i think that if i had to put out fires all the time that i started because books were illegal i would be curious what was in the books, and why i had to burn them so often. I would probably sneak books as well, and try to read them. I also think that it is weird that Montags wife is caught up in the television and he is trying to grounded secretly. He is very curious as to what the books are hiding and why they are soo illegal.

Blog for Friday 9th

I have found Fahrenheit 451 to be very interesting so far in my readings. There are many things in the book that stand out as specific differences that show contrast in the book. The contrast between light and dark in the beginning when he meets Clarisse is a good example. She is very bright and seems like full of life and ready to go, on the other hand Montag is very dark and drearry, I think this is a good way to portray them because when you think of bright things you think lively and dark sort of means dead. I also was curious when reading that when the people hear the sirens of the fire trucks are they scared or do they just think good things. When we hear sirens and think of firetrucks we think of heroes, in the book i was wondering do the people get scared that they are coming to burn them and their houses down.