For this week’s reader
response I chose to write on chapter 3 of pathologies of power. Right away I
felt like I could really relate to the quote by John Womack Jr. because this
attachment to new kinds of technologies and commodities was something that all
teenagers in my day and age did, including me. Womack describes that the
problem is “our mendacious culture, which makes our selfish decadence
entertaining to us, sells us headsets that deafen us to crying injustices in
our own country and changes every real, complicated, painful struggle into a
brief sensation of stars, or meteors, gloriously noble or wicked, somehow
always erotically intriguing today, dead boring tomorrow”. I agree with Womack
that many people, especially young peoples, have grown up with this greater
attachment to technology and use it to try and make every part of their lives a
little more entertaining and even escape from the world around them. That is
the primary problem with technology today because a lot of the times it only
serves as a distraction to what is really going on. It has made a choice
obvious for young people why spend time in world with problems when you can
spend time in your happy place.
Now Chapter 3 at first was difficult to a find a direct relation
to the Womack’s quote, but once I read about the Chiapas people and the slogan
“Chiapas is rich, its people are poor” it became apparent. Although, this
chapter mainly describes the harsh conditions of living and labor in which the
Chiapas people go through I kind of saw the interworking of the chapter and
this quote as a wake-up call for people. Society nowadays is mainly concerned
with our own problems which seem a little inadequate compared to those living
in Chiapas so perhaps it would be better if society wouldn’t try and escape
from the problems in the world but instead attempt to face them and perhaps
make them better.
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