Tuesday, April 28, 2009

An environmental blog

I am referring to an enviromental blog called the Environmental that I discovered by reading the very interesting blog of my class mate called Bul Media Blog.

There is a post that discusses whether we should underestimate global warming or not. I don't have a certain answer. The only thing I am sure about is that because our society discourse is controlled by people who make money out of polluting activities, the view we have is an underestimation of the whole matter.

Then the blog discusses the issue of cows meat, which is one of the primary sources of pollution. Nobody knows about it because big money come out of meat production. And probably nobody would pay attention to this information while listening because the rule of listening is that we listen only to information that seems to be advantageous for ourselves. This one is not very good. We would have to feel responsible for polluting the earth while eating beef if we paid attention to this information. I am afraid we should do it.

The fact that liteners listen only when information seem adavatageous for themselves make of them pray of speakers who use nice metaphors to make their own interests. And they do it by making their interests look like something that sounds good for the listeners, just as if they were making the listeners' interests. This is the key of advertisement.
We should stop doing it and listen only to things that look real, that sound moral and right.

AND THEN GO AND CHECK IT!

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