Cindy- In repsonse to the previous Sassure post

While reading MC's post in response to Saussure, I was one idea stuck out to me:

"While speaking and thinking seem simple enough, the process in which we think, speak and translate signs are not."

This made me consider the idea of how, in our postmodern culture, every idea we have is affected by outside sources. Whether we want to or not, simply exsisting in our culture forces certain connotations between ideas, things, and people. For example, love it or hate it, because of the television show LOST whenever an American with who watches any t.v., reads the newspaper, surfes the internet, listens to the radio, or overhears conversations in line at their local Starbucks boards a plane travelling over the ocean, they cannot help but think what would happen if they crashed on a possessed island.

All of our thinking is affected by what is going on around us. Such as in the example of LOST, it does not matter whether the person likes or dislikes this show, it still penetrates their thoughts. This is our postmodern culture.

On a side note, I would like to add that I typed this while drinking a GRAPE slurpee.