Gary 9/26

I felt a little out of touch the other night in class as we picked apart the latest issue of the week. I still feel that we have to take Disney for what it was designed to be, entertainment. It was built to entertain us, simple as that. Pay your fee and have some fun. Are we really trying to say that automated machines are better than humans? C'mon, give me a break. (Now in the "Westworld" movie back in the early 80's...That's a different story)

Zizek says that "the terrorists themselves did not do it primarily to provoke real material damage, but for the spectacular effect of it" (231). They did it for damage...real, implied etc. The damage lives on day after day primarily because we never let it rest. This wasn't the first bombing of the World Trade Center, just the first one to be truly successful. The effect was spectacular and we constantly relive it on television. We even make new movies and spin it new directions for political reasons. We build monuments, we put up signs, we wear NYPD and NYFD hats. I even saw a pickup truck with "Never Forget 911" painted on his back window with white shoe polish above a confederate flag sticker???

In class we discussed how many of the younger crowd may have lost touch with nature or reality. I think that is too broad of a statement. Afterall, we are responsible for everything that the young students learn. They spend the majority of their time in two places: home and school. It starts at home and it has to continue at school. If they have lost touch with reality...we need to look in the mirror.