The Media's role vs The People Around You in the Development of Personality (continued)

Anything your Peers can do, the media can do better.(1) I do not concede that hypnosis is ineffectual. Accessing theta and alpha mind frames can be accomplished through repetition, prayer, and meditation which are self-imposed. And peers can cause hypnosis also, which should only be done in a controlled environment. -Copying the actions of what you see is not limited to peers. It"s limited to what you agree with. But let"s be honest, who are the true role models in society? Super action Power Rangers and party all the time Miley Cyrus, or stay at home mom who never cleans the house and grumpy working all the time dad? -We are distancing ourselves from our Parents from the time we are born, first by walking and then by moving out of the house. We have boundaries with other people. We guard ourselves from outside influence. The problem is when we are unguarded from influence. And I am saying the people let their guard down when they receive media influence. -I think you missed the part that people are relating to the people they see on TV. The watchers have empathy for the characters both happiness when something exciting happens, and sorrow when something grievous happens like a death [1] [2]. (1a). There is known confusion with how we see actors in comparison to their television personas.This confusion may also come from our "alief" system. The philosopher Tamar Gendler proposes that we have two cognitive systems at work when we engage in fiction: "belief", where we know the fiction to be false, and "alief", where there is an unconscious process that causes us to believe TV actors are doctors, or to have emotional reactions to fictional characters breaking up in a book.[1][Jenny Rodgers] cites research by Barbara F. Tobolowsky, who found that students are arriving at college thinking that their professors will echo those who they see on screen. Faculty are seen as unfriendly and not helpful, because that"s what students have seen on the screen. This causes problems when students are unwilling to seek help from their professors, thinking them unapproachable. [1] [1] http://www.psychologytoday.com... People are confusing fact with fiction when they are watching television shows that portray real life events. But the problem is not whether we see the actors as real, it"s whether or not we see the dilemmas as real. And we do see the dilemma as part of our lives. James Bowmen relates this problem to Breaking Bad from the point of the Aristotle Mimetic Principle (mimeses) [2]. I really think this article is his own recognition to reject the information he received from the show by way of Baruch Spinoza"s (explained in the last debate) philosephy that we believe everything until we disbelieve it. Because Plato first created the mimeses theory, I will give a short brief of it and allow you to also look it up in the link [3].Both Plato and Aristotle believed that Life Imitates Art and vice versa. Plato believed that it had no realistic value and Aristotle believed that it had the ability to teach despite its fictional nature. I side with Aristotle [2] http://www.nytimes.com...[3] https://sites.google.com... (2) First let's look at the media lies [4]. Next the Reason why we trust it so much. I don"t know why we trust the media so much. I just know that we do, and there are more people saying that we shouldn"t trust it than coming to a conclusion of why we do trust it. My opinion of why this trust happens is that the media represents authority and knowledge that we wouldn"t be able to receive from any other source within or circles of influence. I have to turn back to Descartes and to Spinoza that we believe everything until we consciously disbelieve it. [4] http://www.newsfocus.org... But seriously why do we believe the media over peers? Perhaps because the media is a collective agent of knowledge. I know one fact. You asked me for evidence, which means that you aren"t just going to take my word for it. What evidence can I give you except through the Media which holds superiority above and beyond that of people around you? Am I one of the people around you? Regardless of what method we communicate, do our influences to each other bring us into the category of the people around us? I say it does. Rebuttals1. Denial of evidence given is not lack of evidence. I have covered Belief of Authority of Television, Trust placed in Television, Manipulation used by Television, Acceptance of Knowledge received from Television. In all of these areas, Television and other media have higher levels of influence than that of peers. You have not proven that any of your causes outweigh the total influence of media, except in some minority cases. I"m glad that your friend told you to play a game that he likes, but why did your friend play a game at all? If you said media influence, you are right! 2. Influences are influences regardless of how big or small they are. Matter of fact, people believe there is greater power is planting a small seed of influence rather than whacking someone over the head with a whole tree. I always like to say "Self-Discovery is the epitome of learning." Jesus used these idea in his parables. Aesop used this idea, Dr. Seuss used this idea and thousands of others are using a small amount of influence to make big changes in people. If you will notice in the following link, it says that this method of influence is evil and manipulating, so you shouldn"t do it to your peers. However, it gives clear example of how the media is using this technique to influence its audience. [5][5] http://lifehacker.com...Purely comparative arguments1) Dropped on basis of equality.2) The media represents a higher culture and it does count as your backing. Media is the highest form of our culture [6] and we associate the media with a sort of mass culture where our sub culture opinions are not the overall opinions of the nation. You don"t find yourself in the minority, you find yourself siding with authority, and are able to separate yourself from the people around you (see previous arguments concerning distancing.) [6] http://connectwithyourteens.net... Further superiority of the Media I"m glad that you aren't exactly like your friends. If you were, I wouldn"t even consider debating this topic with you. If your friends aren't accomplishing their goal of influencing you to be more like them, your friends are weak in comparison to media. The Media is influencing you to be more like the characters they portray at a faster, identifiable rate with a defined agenda of what you should be like, who you should accept and what you should think about the people who don"t agree with you. Reiterating my point, including homosexuality, minority groups would have remained a small insignificant portion of society without media backing. About Ellen- She is a person influencing others to be like her and she is doing it through the media and creating a positive stereotype of homosexuals, where there one was a negative one. Local homosexuals don't have the same power that she has because she is the Media. About Laura Ingram, I think she is advocating for a Communist country