The Media's Destruction of Human Thought

    
     The media is one of the largest facets of influence on the lives of nearly every human and our society and culture as a whole. It is because of this importance it has on us that is what is destroying creative thought. This video through the combination or art and music shows how media, specifically t.v., is corrupting our minds to be a thoughtless mass of zombies. Now I'm not innocent of watching t.v by any means, and I'm not saying that t.v is corrupting society by telling it to do the wrong things, although that is sometimes the case. Media is however in a way telling us what to think. Think about it, where do you get all of your information? The news or other t.v programs, the Internet, or the radio, and that's about it. The fact that we hear something from someone else leaves us at a disadvantage to the whole truth of the situation, because all humans are biased. Everyone is, because everyone has an opinion, maybe not always their own, and that's the point. Unless you witness some event first hand and you develop your own ideas from that event without any influence, any information you receive is biased. And because the media is really the only way we get information today, and because the media is run by humans (as far as I know), anything we hear is somewhat biased, not even just information based media.

     I think this video really shows all this. The music and video work in harmony to show how we have this almost animalistic side, not necessarily in a bad way, just our natural human side. Whether it is bad or good is just one's nature. To me the video shows the media trying to control that natural side by feeding us what it wants to show us, but in the end only our natural side is the defining factor of our character, or should be anyways. That's what it looks like to me with the deer standing on the cliff watching the death of the media machine. Sure it's idealistic, and may not be possible in reality, but its something we should strive for. The music really gives this feel of lamenting sadness whenever the giant t.v is in control, but free and wild when the natural side is released, almost combined with a determination to overcome this colorless, lifeless life that the media has created. Sure maybe it's a little over analytical, but that's my take on it, and I think it holds true. Obviously not all media is harmful, not unless you let it, and I think that's the point of this. Because after all the video is media, even this blog is a form of media, and maybe that's hypocritical of the point it's trying to make, but again, that's only if you let it influence you. And that's kind of how my take on music is. Music to me is parallel to thought, with thought you make music, to express thought. So by relation the loss of this creative thought is a loss of creative music, but the idea can be applied to any art form. Take from this rant and this video what you will, I don't mean to say what the reality of something is, but just another way of looking at reality, because reality is what you make of it.