Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Green Grocer vs. Gossip Girl (Lily)
I would like to use this blog to use Havel's description of ideology and the Green Grocer as well as how the characters in The Miracle Game act to compare to different groups in society today which I have observed. For example, I went to an all girls high school and noticed a way which every girl was expected to act no matter how they felt about the way they were acting/dressing/talking/etc. I also want to connect it to the girls I mentor at Aldrich Middle School in Beloit. Mainly I would like to connect it to the media, and how the media influences the way people think they should act, creating a way of life which should be followed if wanting to seem "cool". It may seem like a stretch from Havel's Green Grocer, but there are a lot of groups who feel they need to be followers, and live within the lie. (Thank you Bill for the idea about Gossip Girl!!)
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This project has a lot of promise, but I want you to be cognizant of the conversations we've been having in class about how far we ought to extend Havel's ideology critique beyond his situation. That said, there's no shortage of ideology in middle and high schools. If you stick to the girls, then you can focus on ideology/gender, rather than getting distracted: jus what the gossip girl would have liked. In terms of the media, I'd like you to think about the media as mediating a relationship between corporate entities who want to sell stuff, including image, to a group of consumers, adolescent girls. Of course, the media "sells itself" in the process, but I wouldn't want you to get too hung up in how "media influences behavior."
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