Reading #5: Marshall McLuhan

This reading has drawn me closer to the images of people, shapes, objects, negative space, and ink blogs for the audience to develop a sense of the emotional state of empathy or expression. On page 6, there is this poem, You, that caught my eye on a personal level that asks questions to the readers for thoughts to flow through the mind. The confusing part is mentioning electrical information connected to our privacy and knowledge. Without doing research on the term, I would not know the passage is talking about any information being transferred to electronic format, such as raw data. This passage means to me because it is important how much we convey our message throughout social media, blogs, and/or the television. That’s why my private life, especially my love life, is out of the public eye until someone is committed to me and safely confides information about the relationship or future plans. I always go by “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans” and pretty much a deeper communication when choosing how much control society can and the value of the message itself. This poem had mentioned something interesting that made me wonder why it would ask, “‘How much do you make? Have you ever contemplated suicide?’” and would it be distasteful to illustrate suicide in this context because everything that is mistaking made on the web is permanently unfixable and could end a person’s life over mass media.