By Vincent Choi
Section A2
Final Draft1
Social Study Class
Have you parent or you the reader ever told your kids: “Stop watching T.V.”, “Television make you dumber since it does not teach you anything.”, “There are kids in third world countries that don’t have the life of luxury that you have today.” Wells Parents are just over exaggerating about these points since in this world humans never want to be put in a spot light of blame so they push something else in front of them. In this world digital representation devises are the escape goats of life. Through out time creations of humans has been mistreated and thrown aside to rot where they aren’t wanted. Digital devices are no different than the rest of crap humans have piled into this world. Digital Representation devices are not the cause of suffering in this world but the unskillful way human use these devices.
Through out time humans have created forms of digital devices that date back to our own imagination. As a human is born the imagination creates the same sensation that today's digital devices are used. The imagination gives off our internal emotions affected by the world around us. "Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge;"(Wikipedia) As time continued humans developed different types of devices to share with others and to give them the same sensation o emotions. Each person continues to manipulate these emotions they create to try and control the same emotions that other humans have and make categories of good and bad emotions. They document these different types of emotions in stories and books which lead to digital devices of today. The humans choose to use these devices to cause humans suffering and to learn how to control others to their own will "Language expresses thought, preserves thought, and also suggests or creates thought. It has been considered obvious that, so long as language is unwritten, it can accomplish these ends only in a very imperfect measure. Hence it may well be supposed that, at a very early stage of man's history, attempts were made to present in some way to the eye the thought which spoken language conveyed to the ear, and thus give it visible form and permanence"(Wikipedia). It is an endless chain of controlling others to their own gains. Parents use it to keep their children in line and to give them restriction and to feed them different things of good or bad.
Even the creation of other humans as puppets has turned us ourselves into these digital devices. Digital devices are made to make human life easier and like slave they are there to make their owner’s life easier. As a human is born they are either controlled to make life easier for others or control and be controlled. Creations being abused and thrown aside through out the course of time, endless bodies made of all materials (metal, wood, foam, etc…). Each I-pod, Cell phones, Book is like a human’s life since they all has the same value to others. Think about your phone and it freezes on you and doesn’t work like humans revolt in time since it was overused and mistreated. The cell phone has to get fixed like humans are fixed by other humans to twist their emotions and make them do what they want. If it can’t be fixed the cell phone is thrown aside, like how we kill humans in this world. New forms of Cell phones come out more generations like humans to be better and faster. Humans control others like devices and create suffering for their need for more. Those who can understand emotions can control others and create glory for themselves and suffering for others.
All these devices are here to show something to the world. Each human has limits and so does these digital devices. These limits make a box around humans and other things to make them think that is all they can do. In the book “Everything Bad is Good for You” By Steven Johnson, Shows how even though games and television improves your brains limit the normal human doesn’t know that so they can’t use it to help their lives. The Game or television or book is limiting the humans to certain things like maximum strength or, if the person can jump off the cliff or not. Every thing has a limit and by not exploring the dangerous waters one will not end the suffering other has placed upon them. These limits are here to show humans you can’t get past this point or there will be consequences and you will fail. Each human hunter these games, televisions is not under out control and what the creators say goes. This show how all humans are slaves to the creators and these digital devices are being used to limit us.
We as humans have created death to all things. By giving a soul to these digital things we have also enjoy killing them. Computer viruses are a good example of killing digital things. By sending these viruses to other people it is like sending the H1N1 virus to other humans. Unlike the H1N1 which can evolve on its own computer viruses is another creation of humans "People write computer viruses. A person has to write the code, test it to make sure it spreads properly and then release it"(How Stuff Works). They can’t evolve but can still do serious damage. These little viruses are given commands to attack and spread. To kill these things that we as humans hold dear. By the spread of computer viruses humans has created firewalls and anti virus programs which kill the viruses that can’t spread anymore or contain them. These are still created by humans and are used to affect others and die like humans to be killed by others. Humans create suffering to others and this creates more suffering to fight it.
This connect to real life since as time goes on these dead bodies of “humans” of all shapes and sizes pile up and are there to rot. Land fills are the graves of these creations. We as humans has made these things our trophies like human heads and bodies to sit there till it is not useful anymore "an award for success in war or hunting"(Definitions).People cherish their digital devices like awards and prizes to show off, if digital items prices are now equal to our lives than its like holding your child up as just a prize and nothing more Through this endless flow of time humans will always cause suffering and will always be the source of it.
This is significant since this world is a mess. We treat ourselves as the superior breed even though our live cost as much as a digital device we use today. We don’t see this but our lives has been so corrupted by other humans and not devices that our essence is created by other and is artificial. Since there is no turning point to this tragedy all there can be is awareness and knowledge of the horror of this world. To see the true nature of humans and what we have become.
People can view that Digital items are actually bad for you and they are causing the suffering in this world by bringing the separation between social classes through a grand canyon, since third world countries can't afford these things and only high profiting countries with partially wealthy citizens can afford to use them.
Another way people can argues is that in Wall-E the humans loose themselves to digital devices and are taught by these devices of what is good and bad. Kids learn of what is your friend and everything for the humans are at the touch of a button. The humans forgot their life necessity like chewing food, working and even walking. Each human is suffering because of these devices but they don't know it since they are so hypnotized by these devices.
Humans created all this suffering for digital devices by tampering with them and manipulating them to their will. Since Humans are destroying imagination of dreams in this world to feel like an individual and feel true emotions only define by themselves. When one is trying to understand oneself and find out that what one see and hear, which is all in your head and nothing in this world is necessarily real. To create one’s own path not to enlightenment but a better future where things make sense and one’s path can evolve from using other human sorrow for ones happiness. The things we throw in front of use like a wall to protect what we really don’t want to see. What we really want to hide from. The nasty truth which everyone should learn and understand and not judge so harshly. The suffering we as humans use to make our lives better which doesn’t come from these devices but each other.
Bibliography
-My research homework (HomeWork 10)
-Andy’s digital timeline and sites (History)
-Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter.
Wall-E (DVD)
-My mind (can't site this sad...)
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