Cultivation Theories

   This is a theory that states that media shapes how we view the world. To an extent I believe that to be true. How many times do you see a friend watch a TV show and then believe everything that they have seen to be true? I've seen it a couple times even with myself. It's easy to fall into a trap like that when you like what you see. After watching all of these reality TV shows and such you begin to believe that life is like that. I have a friend that has maxed out a lot of credit cards to make herself and her closet resemble Kim Kardashian. After I introduced her to the show she fell in love and insisted that she had to look like then. This girl works three jobs just to try to keep up. While I will admit watching a show like that really makes a girl jealous I realize that with the amount of money I make and given all my circumstances I will not be looking like that any time soon. I grew up watching reality TV and I will admit there where times when I expected things to be handed to me. My dad had to sit down with me and go over things that didn't grow on trees and things that I would be responsible for when I moved out. It's a shocking thing to be shown.
   There are people out there in the world that go to extremes to be something they aren't people get plastic surgery to look more like the people they idel. Sometimes I think they there should be a limit on how much reality TV you can watch in one day, but then all those TV executives wouldn't make all their money.
    Sometimes I think that people live on their own worlds. Where everything revolves around them. Those people that are always late because they are on their own time. The people that think that everyone should be watching them. You know the people that watch to many reality TV shows and just assume that the hotter they look the more likely they are to be picked up by a network that wants to make their face famous or better yet the people that think that that Brad Pitt would drop Angelina to date them. Those people drive me crazy but the more I read the quote at the bottom of this paragraph the more that I just let them be. Everyone has a different view and a different opinion. You just have to accept it and move on because at the end of the day your perception of realty is drastically different than mine.
“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” – Douglas Adams