"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction,"
“Mass media then gives us a more realistic view of the world and
increases our ability to communicate with others even though we lose out in the
sense of the supernatural and the mysterious that used to make art so powerful,
what he later refers to as the "cult value" of art.”
I agree with this passage when it states that “our ability
to communicate with others “increases. But when I thinking about mass media and
really analyze how news, commercials, tv shows, films, advertisement, etc
communicate to us I have to disagree and say that it does not give us a
realistic view of the Word. Mass media can definitely be referred to as “cult
value” in that it is a cut. Most of the time it tells us things we want to hear
so we can be compelled to buy, fee, see, things they want us too. Some might
say its an extreme, Why compare masss media to a cult?. Well I have to agree,
not all mass media is trying to brainwash us and get us to do things or feel
things we otherwise will not. But let me give you an example. Back during the
Holocasut germany will braod advertise their persecutions and promote becoming
part of the cause, Hitler Cause. These commercials were very offensive and
disturbing. There is a movement to even band these advertisement in the US
because of the hatred and memories these advertisements have. But because of
the constant brainwashing in germany these commercials were totally acceptable,
in fact they were applauded. This is Mass media, we are sometimes brains washed
and are in a cult like environment where we plause commercials with naked
girls, local TV channels getting away with a lot more things, Showing off more
skin, cussing, Some of these things that would not get pass inspection of commercials
20 years ago, but today they are brainwashing our kids, our futures. Lets see
where this takes s in 20 mores years….
