Our discussion on Chomsky was particularly fun and interesting to sit back and listen to Jack and Alex pick apart the football player’s statement about quitting the NFL because of the enlightenment he experienced from reading Chomsky. I had my own opinions and ideas as to why he had quit and why Chomsky’s concepts had a major effect on his career playing in the NFL, but it was much more entertaining to watch what was going on in front of me. I think it is definitely possible to read something or see something and have a life changing moment because of it. I definitely think his decision was not spur of the moment, and with the help of chomsky’s theories, he was able to use it as a way out.
The words by Chomsky, “opine and recline” intrigued me during our class discussion. Just like how I had my opinions during the conversation about the NFL player, I sat back and kept quiet. There is no particular reason to it, but I was being a passive listener and student in the classroom, as Eco would say. As a culture of mass media consumers, we are attacked with media images and manipulation thousands of times a day, and there is a notion of passivity that goes along with it. The five ingredients of the propaganda model shape how the media directly affects us. The fact that a few large corporations own all media sources reminds me of the food industry and how corrupt the system and its products are.
Yesterday, I came across a music video from a local Orlando rapper, Brandon Caskey, that talks about media and advertisement manipulation and how it has the capitalist power to shape our views on many aspects of culture and essentially make us buy into the power. Not a good song what-so-ever, but very applicable for Chomsky.
lyrics:
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
Had enough of that
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
Had enough of that
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
Yo let the television develop my vision
This not a hell of a prison that I am standing inside
Capitalism capitalizing on my condition
Every tiny ass that circulates I’m making decision
Being taught to consume
Fear’s all they ever promote inside of the news
I’m confused what they notice defused with that bogus
The locus inside the fear ain’t necessary to grow it
I got family at home everybody need the new shit that’s coming on
They are coming on to me like a 12 bus groupie
Trying to hop inside my hooptie on the low
They thinking the life of me is a movie
They are programmed from the lad that is no man’s
Up in nasty nice and some slow jams
My eyes in the low lands in the cold cans
These commercial and titles they the start to the circle
Inviting me to keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
Had enough of that
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
It’s psychology someone owe me an apology
I usually ain’t concerned with they policy
But honestly this rewriting my whole main
It’s like I have to purchase this so I could maintain
What’s the verdict on life, are we still the appraised?
We always got to be slave to someone’s pocket decide
Is you gonna live a life consuming materials
I’ll be the one who can stop it
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
Keep your eyes on the screen
Watch everything, watch, watch everything
Watch everything, watch everything
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
Had enough of that
It’s another add for ya, everything bad 4 ya
Had enough of that
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