Ecology of the Mind

"I have no hard proof that daily exposure to media violence shapes the way you feel about crime and punishment, or affects the way you feel about that guy standing next to you at the bus stop."

I do not agree with what he's saying, violence does have change on people view of the others that surround them. If you went up to strangers on a street and asked who do you feel most nervous about everyone will have an answer because the world isn't safe to people after all the events of civilians being killed in the U.S., France, or England. Just on Sunday night an old man shot and killed fifty-eight people and injured over 200 sends a message to people to be careful of the people around you. If efforts were made to study that idea, I believe they could prove that a fact a person does in fact look at people and wonder.

"You fill your car with gas, there's an ad on the nozzle. You wait for your bank machine
to spit out money and an ad pushing GICs scrolls by in the little window. You drive through the heartland and the view of the wheat fields is broken at intervals by enormous billboards."

This is just a good way for publicizing a company in efforts to make a large amount of money. It can also be used by the many well known companies such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's or the gas station that always neighbor each other. These corporations have a great deal of money so what else better to do with all the income they collect than to put it back up in the form of a billboard to get customers to come to their business. All they do is pay the farmer annual more than likely and that isn't probably close to what they make in income off that sign. I have used these signs before because than can be useful to a driver who may be need in gas, food, or a place to stay.


"Advertising aims to do the same thing. Dr. Cameron's guinea pigs emerged from the Montreal trials with serious psychological damage. It was a great scandal. But no one is saying boo about the ongoing experiment of mass media advertising. In fact, new guinea pigs voluntarily come on board every day." 

I don't think this is can be related at all unless you do not know the whole experiment. I watched a documentary when I read this experiment because I am interested in that, but the experiment had other factors than just drilling an idea in to a persons head. Before the Doctors would start to drill certain questions in to the persons head they gave him drugs; one in particular being LSD a hallucination drug. This drug would cause a person to see different things and thinks certain ways; the subject was as well left alone to take in by himself. This to me is nothing like what an everyday billboard is doing. "McDonald's Exit 2 Miles" with a little caption underneath saying "Try our Big Mac with a Large fountain drink and fries" just to let the customer know what the special is.

This passage was about how the world is now being taken over by technology and how we it controls our daily lives. The argument can be supported by how they use facts and statistics throughout the passage, to question if the reader still thinks that the argument of technology does in fact take over our lives. I think technology does effect people and how they interact with each other in person versus texting or using a social media account to interact. I don't think kids are being taught basic skill, they should be taught at a young age when the children first enter grade school. The two authors would agree with the statement on technology because the arguments of each passage supports one another.