Television media is a complex topic, but it can be easily seen that it influences younger people to conform to a popular trend. Television shows that embody high school drams such as Laguna Beach, One Tree Hill, and the O.C. make the characters beautiful, wealthy, and popular. This desire to be like these characters is translated into American Highschools.
It’s called Simulcrum–the way people live their lives in parallel with media, letting fictious media decide whats in or out, what coll or gay, and how to act in certain positions. Below is a short movie made by some kooky college students trying to show you first hand simulacrum. Take a look.
Now living your life by the restrictions of media has become accepted in our society and getting close to a must, but what happens.
People tend to conform to a certain style and identity even if they are not representing their true self. Whats the probelm with this you ask? Well, indiviuality is lost, and sameness results. Society is weaken as the rate of new ideas, innovations, thoughts, and philophies continue to down spiral, the American thought is becoming the same. American youth must realize that simulacrum is not the life needed to be lived or represented. Kids need to realize that they must be themselves, and represent themselves as the people they truly are. This way American society will be diverse and new ideas will come again.
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Individuality is one that I find very unique but there times in our society that we can easily get conformed into certain groups that we don not necessary enjoy the company of. But we as humans like to be involved and feel wanted or fit in a certain group of people to learn more about our own identity. Conformity can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the person and group that they choose to join. We as Americans will constantly be in a world where we sometimes are forced to conform especially at a younger age because they are trying to identify their identity.