In Claire's blog she is discussing the happiness index in Bhutan. She brings up a great point about the difference between the society in Bhutan vs. America. She says " In America, our "success" depends on how much money you are making, and that is just the nature of the country. It's a competing country where money=power (usually). In a place like Bhutan, no offense but there probably isn't too much competing, and money doesn't equal power. I feel like they live off of a day to day basis, while America is always looking to tomorrow." I think this brings up a different point of view on the topic. I never thought about it in that way. America is a very technology based country, that's why i think we are always "looking to tomorrow". Bhutan is the opposite. Television was illegal in Bhutan until 1999. They are not looking to advance their technology, so they are more focused on happiness rather than money.
In Chase's blog, she is talking about the fashion industry. We watched a commercial about the fashion industry and a little girl and at the end it says talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does. Chase brings up a great point saying that make up is "a gateway to being really insecure about themselves." Kids are starting to care about makeup and clothing at such an early age. There is elementary kids putting on makeup to go to school and shopping at expensive clothing stores to buy cute clothes that they are just going to grow out of in a year. I think that media has a huge part in this. Kids see their favorite actresses and singers selling a product and immediately want to buy it because that person is so beautiful. Media can make people believe that they are ugly without the use of their product and it leads to insecurities. In a fashion and beauty sense, i think media is negatively affecting our society.
In Logan's blog he is talking about the advances of technology. Some people think that our society is too reliant on technology where as others make it their whole life. Logan says "I think yhat without the progression of technology we would be no where and without the continuation of it, we would be dead very soon. Things like sickness that arise from other sicknesses would have no cure and we wouldn't be very well off." When we first started talking about the influence of technology in our society i immediately thought about cell phones, computers and televisions. I never thought about how important some advances in our society are, especially medical. There are so many things that are being discovered about health that are groundbreaking, and they are all due to technology. We would not be a very healthy society without technology. This is something I never thought about until now.
