Monday, April 21, 2014
Who's manipulating whom?
This assignment, and all the recent blog posts have made me start to think that we are being manipulated, by Janelle, to believe in manipulation. This entire class has been focused on how we are constantly manipulated and Janelle has been drilling into our head that we need to open our eyes and realize this. After everyone brought in their mediated artifacts I realized that these things, and Janelle, can only manipulate us if we allow them to. We have complete control over ourselves, and the idea that we can be so easily manipulated by meaningless objects in our everyday life seems almost absurd. Of course its not as easy to prevent yourself from all forms of manipulation, but I felt as though, after lengthy discussions concerning manipulation, it was worthing bringing up the idea that the concept of manipulation is ultimately in our control.
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I really like that you brought up the point that manipulation is in our control. I completely agree that there are more circumstances than we care to admit when we succumb to manipulation; we have the power to overcome trivial and material forms of manipulation if we will ourselves to.
ReplyDeleteI also think that there are times when we let ourselves be manipulated because we feel we have to. While Janelle tells us that we could all easily walk out of class or refuse to write our papers, we all choose not to. We give her the power to manipulate us because she's an authority figure in our lives. While we do have the control to resist her manipulation, I think that ultimately with more pressing matters such as our education, we weigh the consequences of our actions before deciding to carry them out.