media lit blog #2

I agree with the belief that media saturation with the younger generations is a problem. The media is trying to create lifelong consumers out our society's children; they are wanting to "get them early and get them often." We are moving toward the type of society all those paranoid sci fi writers of the past two centuries envisioned. The type of society where there is no such thing as free thought because the Authority, in this case the Media, does all your thinking for you. The media tells you what to value, who to be, and how to act. The type of society where the individual is dead. According to the video, the effects of media saturation on children has indirectly led to a noticeable physical and emotional health decline. Also, the media creates and reinforces stereotypes which children are likely to believe. If we do not put regulations on the media's content that is aimed at children we will spawn a generation of materialistic, selfish, stereotype-following consumers.