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I never noticed that the train braking at the stop has a screech as if it were the female role of your favorite killer movie that tries to run away but, she trips and cannot get up which allows the killer to eventually approach her and proceed to murder her. I also listened for heavy rain outside, it reminds me of the big splash you get after waiting under the big bucket at a water park. Another sound I listened to the sound of the zipper on one of my sweaters, and zip and unzip, back and forth, its a DJ’s scratching records on a turntable.

I found this text very exciting and relatable because it puts today’s society into perspective and how media is very much an important factor. Technology and media is changing the way people do and view things, perspective and people will always be changing due to new updates in the way media is used in society. A part that really caught my attention was the “your government” section because what McLuhan is saying is what i’m actually seeing in my everyday life. McLuhan writes “The public, in the sense of a great consensus of separate distinct viewpoints, is finished… It is instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday’s answers to todays questions.” I believe what he is trying to explain here is that people pay most attention to is what is most entertaining or whatever makes uninteresting headline or a good meme. For example, in presidential debates highlights, what is seen most is not really the stance’s that the candidate or their initial points, what gets hi lighted is usually a retaliation or a snarky comment made by one of the candidates to another. Another part of the text I found intriguing is “your family” section, because in today’s media we are all a collective and basically a large extension of your family. We are all constantly in contact, sharing opinions and experiences. McLuhan writes “The family circle has widened. The world pool of information fathered by media- movies, Telstar, flight- far surpasses  any possible influence mom and da can bring to bear. Character is no longer shaped by two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world’s a sage.” I agree with what he is saying because through media is where we grow up together as a community along with your real life friends or just people speaking on experiences or giving advice, just doing everything the general idea of parenting includes but through media. I agree with this text and think this will be the model for the rest of time as media continues to grow and expand to help build character and shape who we are.

If I could create a tool to fix a problem, I would create a huge net that would be attached to a submarine that would collect all the trash and waste that is left in the ocean. it would have to a metrial that stays sticky underwater so that whatever garbage it catches would stay on easily. This would be one step closer to a cleaner planet and saving animals that live at sea.