Hyperreality.

Hyperreality: "Hyperreality is an inability to distinguish between what is real and what is not. Hyperreality can be described as enhanced reality. Some people become more engaged with the hyperreal world than with the real world." (1)


I have fallen victim to hyperreality in more ways then one. I believe that many young girls and teenagers fall victim in the areas of romance and relationships. Primarily this is found in Disney Movies, where the theme is always, and they all lived "happily ever after"(2). Though i believe that people can live happy lives, this hyperreality creates children who expect to be pampered like a princess, find a handsome prince charming, who saves them from something evil--they then get married and live "happily ever after". Though nothing is wrong with young girls who desire to be princesses the fall is in the conclusion... life isn’t all about falling in love, and living happily ever after. Love takes work, and so does living "happy" life. How many of us are happy all of the time? It's not happiness, its joy, and true everlasting joy can only come from the Lord, not from just any Prince Charming. A second example of this is in soap operas found on TV. They portray "extreme dramatic relationships [that] are a heightened form of reality that some people relate to as being real."(3) If someone bases the relationships that they have off of the dramatic and so much more interesting lives of the people on soaps, they find their life to be incredibly boring. There is no way life would ever measure up to the high drama and intensity of "soap like" portrayals of how life really is. Hyperreality affects everyone, especially in today’s postmodern society where we always question what real truth is.


(1,3) http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-hyperreality.htm
(2) http://www.jamieliew.com/category/movies/

Christianity vs. Postmodernism

SPU WAS AMAZING THIS WEEKEND!

anways, i think we as christians have to deal with this "crisis" of postmodernism. It cant be avoided, and it cant be 100% embrased. We have to find some middle ground, but this also is dangerous, becuase when people compromise on this kind of subject a disaster awaits. The huge factor that needs to be dealt with is the major difference that postmodernism rejects metanarritives. Christianity in itself is a metanarriatve. So how do we help a society of people who dont really care, becuase to them it is all relative? good question, i think people need to be educated on what has been happening in society, and then they need to be told the Truth, the real Truth. We cant embrase this worldview, but we have to learn to live along side it, and be a light, to share truth. We cant make postmodernism go away, we gotta learn to "fight it" in a learned, intelligent manner.

Happy Endings.

Mr Johnson, i left my assignment book at school where i wrote down the blogging assignment, and you dont have it on your page, and no one has done it yet... so im clueless as to the second question we had to disguss. i do remember the first so i will answer that, and then finish the rest tomorrow.
I think the first question was pretty simple and just asked why the last section is a metafiction, and the answer is that becuase in the mist of telling the story, the writer addresses the story being written about as part of the story.....
i will finish this later when i know the second part of this assignment.

Jack Sparrow = <3

Jack Sparrow is a postmodern pirate because... he seems to go throung his life without a care, he doesnt live with any fears becuase he know, or thinks at least that is is his fate. So whatever happens to him, is what was suppose to happen. As long as what he is doing is in some way benifiting him, he will do whatever. He doesnt plan, yet has one goal. And knows that eventually he'll get what he wants. He just has to let time play its thing until eventually he is in favor of his own fate. He's life is chaotic, and he likes that. And so do we as an audience, being a postmodern audience. We never know what his next step is, and we dont ever know what the right next step is. We experience his adventure in a different way.

I LOVE CAP. JACK SPARROW!

and Orlando bloom is pretty amazing too.

William Turner!!!!

Ants BLog

Its friday night, im dead tired and have no motovation to write this out... o well. Well my "Ants" experience happened right after this assignment was given. I like to think that im a pretty outgoing person when im put in situations like this, so i really didnt have any fears or issues with the assignment. So it went a little like this, wednesday after class...durring lunch i went to go put gas in my car becuase i woulndt have time after school to go to that, so i went down the hill to costo, cause thats the cheep gas, and when i get gas there i get to use moms credit card, nort my own hard earned cash. i get there, and its like i was the only car there, i get out pump my gass and stand there waiting for the tank to get full. This nice young man, who worked there came up to me...which in a way freaked my out, and my natural instinct as he began to talk to me was to go sit in my car and avoid him. Shamefully, i will admit that is just what i did. As he came over he saidhows it going, him...seeing my unwillingness to chat just said have a great day, and walked away. Immediatly following this, i was like CRUD, perfect moment to not be an ant... but i blew it. So i was kind of upset. I went back up the big hill, and decided to go to safeway becuase i was craving a SOBE drink, and i was searching to redeam myself for being a complete loser. I got my drink, got in line and bang...then it happened. The girl infront of me in line was getting a bagel, her credit card wasnt working, and it was like 57 cents, so as she was screabling to count change in her oversized purse i said just add my drink to that and i'll pay for it. She looked up at me, and said thank you, told me her name was rebecca and that she was already late for work after break, she said "i'll get ya next time" and ran out the door. That was it.

"go to it"

I think his words have an approving tone, i honestly dont think he cares enough about them really to care weather or not they die. He would have spent more time explaining if he didnt approve. He apporoves, becuase they get the death they deserve....a pointless, stupid, meaningless way of dieing...for two pointless, stupid, meaningless chatacters.