Hyper Reality

Hyperreality effects everyone of us, in the area of music, food, and even phones.
"Hyperreality is a means to characterise the way consciousness defines what is actually "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter the original event or experience being depicted." What this is saying is that what the media tells us gives us an idea of what we think is real, but when we are given the actual product, in this case a cell phone, we find ourselves to be disappointed. This is the case with my phone, which was dipicted to me as a cute, music playing, phone with lots of cool features. As the t-mobile websites states, "The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is the perfect marriage of music and style." When I say the phone on the web-site and how they advertise it it sounded like the best phone in the entire world, but I find you change your mind quickly when you're glad it's under warrenty and they've already sent you two new ones because the screens die.I've only had the phone since June and am finding that I regret the day I first thought my phone was so musically and stylish because I would give anything for my old phone back. It's obvious that not everything is as we see and the fantasy of the things we want aren't always the way the media protrays them to be.


http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Detail.aspx?device=03e32d1d-b4e8-4de1-a5fc-01b1f8bbf3f4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_reality

The Postmodern Crisis

As Christians we can't shun everything the world does or believes. We have to be in the world, yet not of it. In a sense we have to embrace parts of postmodernism, but not all of it because God "trumps" everything the world has to say. So fragmentation is all good, and mettafiction can still be entertaining, but there are absolutes and not everything is relative. What God says goes, but as long as a Christian understands that, then it's almost better that embrace parts of postmoderism because then we can relate to everyone, making it easier to share God's love. The rel crisis would be if christian's put up blinders to everything postmodern, said it was all wrong and everyone who thinks that way is going to hell. No one would listen and Christian's would look like, well... a goody two shoes who can't function in today's world; it would get the Christian community no where.

ant

So at work there is this one guy who comes into the gym and he never says hi, never really does anything. It doesn't help that he's kind of scary looking too. Anyway instead of just saying hi and having him glare like he usually does before he heads off to some other part of the gym like normal I asked him how he was and tried to start a ocnversation. It didn't work all that well, he gave me one word anwsers like, "fine" and "sure" the whole time and still did not smile. I'm begining to think he looks scary because he is anti-social. I don't know, but it was kind of weird andawkward. I got the feeling he just wanted to run away as i asked him about his day.

Echoes

The Echoes are significant because they happen when R & G are not needed and therefore don't really seem to matter to the other characters. When R& G are noticed is when they are needed and have been sent for because that's all they are good for. It's when they are talking amongst themselves and no one cares that the echoes take place as if telling the world that they still are there. It seems that everyone forgets them and then they echo and then everyone else is reminded that they do exist and therefore can use them.

Approval

I think that when Horatio says, "So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to 't", he approves of their deaths and what is to come. After all they were taking Hamlet to his death. Whether or not they knew what was going on they never really seemed to care and went along with everything Claudious said and yet they are suppose to be really good friends of Hamlet. Besides Rosencrantz and guildenstern are such minor characters that I doubt Horatio really cares what happens to them. Horatio knows that they were Hamlet's friends from school, but ever since they arrived in Denmark they have done nothing to show that this is the case, instead they spend their time doing Claudious' dirty work. From everything that Horatio knows they have done nothing to show that they really care about Hamlet, but instead they act as if Claudious' opinion is all that matters.