Graduating with a Communications Degree from Arizona State University while attending The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, I learned a lot about society, culture, media, gender and race issues. The way people from different backgrounds communicate. The way people from different generations interact. Whether you identify as she or he …we will always be constant. Each of us has a story, a narrative that helped mold us into who we are today. A narrative that altered our views of the world, for better or worse. This personal narrative of the human race is drastically shaped by society and culture as a whole.
The news media could be one to blame, they are almost like a large bully in stature, pushing their way into our homes, and phones. Pushing their agenda, broadcasting and televising things. Sensationalizing intimate moments of time. They too, have a story and it’s heavily profitable. I have to remind myself that like me, the news media is a story-teller. Their author is one of the six conglomerate companies that own the world. As a result I am frustrated that the test of the human spirit is considered a second-class citizen, who pays for it all. That our identities and the people we “think” we are, have been made profit of.
As a member of the human race, I feel like it’s my duty to talk about, discuss and then take the necessary actions towards advancing our race. The human race.
It is the year of 2019 and somehow most of us still can’t get over skin color, class, celebrities and idols. My mission is to remove the idea of idols. I believe the human race needs to be reminded that we should be celebrating our differences, and sharing the idea of the human spirit, not profiting off of it. At the end of the day we are all in this thing called life together. We need to remember what matters most. That what matters most is in all of us. It doesn’t have a barcode, or a price-tag but, if it did it would be a number so high, that nobody could afford it.
I believe that the human race could make drastic advancements if we could shelf away idols. My main and only point for this idea, is that we are constantly reminded that we aren’t good enough, smart enough, funny enough, pretty enough…to be successful, known and not forgotten. When this happens we start turning that hate inward. We start buying things we don’t need, we continue to perpetuate the lies that society and popular culture has brainwashed us into believing. I strongly feel that if there were no one to compare our livelihood to, we would be much better off. We would be able to live successful and longer lives on our own measure. When each one of us are able to fully understand the world and the people around us that live in it our times would advance.
Technological advancements, social advancements, environmental advancements, healthcare advancements, even space exploration. Are a few to mention that picque my interest of the future. In the future, we will be busy wanting to learn more about this thing called life, and the world in which we live in.
I see my fellow spirit-humans and we are deeply saddened and unsatisfied. Constantly looking for praise, and achievement. We are complex, we are fascinated with others to the point of hate and confusion, we lie, we love, we have weird things that bother us. We don’t understand most things, but act as if we do. We are all in this so-called life together, so we should get to know each other more and really test the human spirit and see how far it can go.
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