Thursday, November 5, 2009

Digital Unit Final Paper (homework:18)

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 human suffering 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Humans created all this suffering for digital devices by tampering with them and manipulating them to their will, by destroying imagination of dreams in this world to feel like an individual and feel true emotions only define by themselves. To understand oneself and find out that what you see and hear 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
-Andy’s digital timeline and sites
- Everything Bad is Good for You, By Steven Johnson
-My mind

(note) missing oposing point of view section

3 comments:

  1. Vincent,

    I liked how you created a parallel between the digital devices that we use and we ourselves; how both are made to be valueless. However, I got the impression that you're saying that we built these devices specifically to cause suffering which I don't think is the case. You should clarify more on how these cause suffering. What do you mean by controlling emotions? Maybe add some evidence to support your claim.

    I like your quote "Humans created all this suffering for digital devices by tampering with them and manipulating them to their will, by destroying imagination of dreams in this world to feel like an individual and feel true emotions only define by themselves." I don't know if it's true that digital devices destroy our sense of individuality but it'd be if you can give more examples of that to change our thinking.

    I'm thinking though that music have given us the freedom to express our own individuality. Maybe that could be one of your opposing arguments.

    I'm really interested to see how this essay develops. You just need a little touching up and clarification. Can't wait to read it (:

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  2. Peer Grading:
    Point of view - 3/4
    Evidence - 2/4
    Connections - .5/2
    Significant - 1.5/2
    Effort, Organized - 2
    Opposing point of view - .5/4 (need more!)
    Communication- 3/4
    Overall - 12.5/24

    (sorry ><) well this is only your rough draft.

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  3. Hi Vincent,

    I like your introduction a lot. You gave out a lot of feelings there. But yea, like Carrie said, maybe clarify what kind of sufferings. Are we the one that is choosing to do the suffering?

    I think you could add more evidence to what you are saying. And a lot of what you said is that humans are like devices but we are also being controlled by other humans then by the digital and in a cycle. Is that the suffering? or?

    I agree with you that the world is a mess and we are the ones that are either creating a bad life or a good life with each other. And that we should be true to ourselves (I think thats what you are saying at the end of the paragraph, which was a very influencing paragraph).

    I think you have all your points in but I think you need opposing point of view (like what Carrie said too).

    You are writing a very interesting and intriguing paper but work hard! Fightin'!

    As for the peer grading (I'm just going to copy Carrie's list):
    point of view: 3/4
    Evidence: 2.5/4 (need more quotes...>.<...)
    Connections: 2/4 (scary connections but find evidence to back it up o.o)
    Significance: 2.5/4 (same...scary, and needs evidence)
    Organization: 2/4 (label like what Andy said...o.o....)
    Opposing point of view: ---- (add!)
    Communication: 3/4
    Total: 15

    Fightin'! on your final draft~ x3

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