Postmodernism

"Citizens of the Middle Ages and members of pre-modern tribal societies could live out their years without encountering anyone with another god, a contrary worldview, different folktales, dances or myths." If they did meet anyone with opposing or different views, they would conquer them and to convert them.In the Postmodernism world, everyone has different ideas, cultures and beliefs. Everyone's different ideas and beliefs are everywhere to see. You can't go on any website or even walk out of your house without seeing differences in people and how people think, act, look, and are. "We live increasingly in a world of interconnected differences-differences amplified and multiplied at the speed of electricity." There are now so many more ways of thinking now, and it is mostly accepted to have different opinions than other people.

All of the cultures are intermixing. It is interesting to think about this and how it affects people in everyday life. One person believes so many things, and it is interesting to think about where all of those ideas stemmed from. There are so many different shared beliefs now, in the Postmodernism world. We are forced to think and know about all of the different ways of thinking,. which, in my opinion, is a good thing.


"According to Jameson, Postmodern city-dwellers are alienated, living in hallucination, an exhilarating blur, a reality evaporating into mere images, spectacles, strange new warps in time and space, fixated on commodities, on products, on images... on bottles of Coca-Cola, collages of identical images of Hollywood stars such as Marylin Monroe, all sameness, all surface-all deathlessness." Today, everyone tries so hard to be different. People don't focus on the things that really matter. People focus on things that are materialistic and have no depth. People rely so much on the false images that the media and the world around them gives them. people don't think for themselves, according to this article. I disagree with this. I think that people do have depth. I think that these days, people are in a way forced to have depth and are forced to think for themselves. Yes, everyone is doing the same thing, but some, if not most people choose to think for themselves and do think for themselves. There is so much emphasis today on self-reflection, which is where people find out what they truly believed. In a way, people do have a hard time thinking for themselves because so many people are told what to believe. Also, everyone tries to be different, which is where I agree with this piece. Everyone tries too hard to be different, which makes everyone even more similar. I think that people should stop listening to what society is telling them to be and believe what they truly believe and live off of that.

Podcast Blog

In the radiolab podcast, they talked a lot about the colors that people can see and how it is possible for organisms to see color. They discuss the differences in how different animals and organisms see color. For example, humans have three color receptor rods, and see variations of red, blue and yellow. Humans see the colors on the ROYGBIV scale. For example, dogs only see blues, greens, and yellows. Butterflies have more color receptor rods that humans. different animals have a different amount of color receptor rods and therefore see different variaions of colors and in a different amount of detail. 

They talked about how they did experiments on monkeys. They took red pigments from something and put it into the eyes of the monkeys. At first, the monkeys saw no differences, but about twenty weeks in, the monkeys started to be able to see the difference between the colors, and could then see the red colors. This is interesting to think about. After a little while, the monkeys could see the single color that was different from all of the others and clearly point it out. It shows how much the eye can change how you look at something. Colors have so many layers to them, but certain eyes can only see some layers of colors, while others can see color in so much detail. 

It depends on what the animals and organisms perceive as the colors. There was one woman who they were testing to be a "tetrochromad, " which means that she can see many more colors than the normal human eye can. The could tell the different color in the set of three colors every time. The control for this experiment, however, was a male painter, so he could not be a tetrochromad. This man saw all of the colors and got all of the answers correct, as the woman did. The man must have also been a tetrochromad as well. On the other hand, when the people involved in the experiment all looked at the sky, the woman said she saw pink in the sky, where everyone else saw a deep, turquoise blue. She saw the pigments of red and pink in the sky, which is interesting and could also prove that she is a tetrochromad. 

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