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WHY I WILL FOREVER BE STUCK CLEANING THE LITTERBOX

For my WEPO project

Satire..,why sensitive people shouldn't read it

A satire is essentially a way for people to ridicule a shortcoming of a thing, idea, person etc. with the intent of shaming that said item into improvement. This differs from regular humor and parody. Humor is just that...meant to make us laugh without really seeing the issue involved or to let us laugh at an issue without really trying to solve it. Parody essentially will make mock, make fun, or parodize something that has already been created (think about my keyword assignment and the examples I used. That essentially is a parody).

I would assume that an author would use a satire to get his point across even more than just the use of humor. By using humor, you're only slightly pick at the pathos argument. Using a satire you are literally THROWING your opinion of an issue into someone's face and ridiculing that issue in the hopes that the reader will get them to change the issue.

However there are some drawbacks. One is, is that they won't take you seriously and just laugh it off before going onto something else. Another would be that you would appear cynical and people would end up getting defensive over the issue and try to find flaws in your argument. There is a thin line between getting the point across or just shoving it into the face of the reader to the point where they will get annoyed and toss the argument out the window.

The job of people who use satire is to find that line and stay on it.

Laughter is the best kind of medicine

What do I find funny? Oh the stuff I could list.
But I can say that dry humor seems to fit me the best. I love the sarcasm associated with it and how most of the time it is normally voice by a British guy (their accents are SO adorable) or actor/actress. But I do love any type of humor...though I tend to stay away from gross humor. I can do slightly gross, but extremely gross and *shudder* bleugh. I would think that the rhetorical value of humor is more of a pathos argument to get the audiences attention and to persuade them through the use of laughter.

However there is a time and place for humor. You can't expect to have an argument about 9/11 and then joke about it. People are likely to be offended and won't take the rest of your argument, no matter how logical or ethical it gets. 

Doctor Cat comic strip analysis

(Doctor Cat comic)

I've read comic's ever since I was a little girl. I was always interested in the ideas of superhero's and extreme battles that no human could ever do without snapping their backs in half. Even now I love reading comics, though now I mostly read manga and plenty of webcomics (one for example is the one shown above). The comic above in using the terms I learned, the images are definitely more iconic than realistic. The faces are simplified to show a more cartoonish. I would think it would have been difficult to have drawn realistic images of Doctor Cat, and the minor human characters and the humor involved with a cat who is a doctor. The simplified cat also becomes a cute icon, which I doubt would be as cute if the cat looked realistic. I believe that what the artist used in transitions, was mainly action-to-action and subject-to-subject. In this strip the text and the words work together to show Doctor Cat's problem and insecurities of being a cat who is a doctor and is unable to use hands to do a surgery, however it also shows his resolve to prove those in his past wrong. The text is also simplified almost in an iconic way so it doesn't seem too show-offy. The text also tells the story of this page.

Hypermediacy

In Bolter and Grusin’s chapter Remediation: Understanding the New Media they consider remixing (called hypermedia) to be the artist’s way of defining a space through the disposition and interplay of forms that have been detached from their original context and then recombined, while the consider remediation to be the defining characteristic of the new digital media by identifying a media in a different spectrum; digital. Now that is a complete difference to Walter Benjamin in our previous readings, who saw the idea of media being reused and mass produced  as a negative (but unfortunately for him a necessary) thing. Bolter and Grusin however see it as a positive connotation and a way to express to the audiences that are consumed by hypermedia. They also differ from their belief. Benjamin believed that an audience needed to take in the art work and fast paced moving art didn’t affect the audience. Bolter and Grusin believed that because of the population and their need to get things done, that they want their art to affect them quickly. And I agree with Bolter and Grusin. We live in a face paced society where the time to slow down is very rare in a person’s life. As much as I would like to “lose myself in a painting” society won’t let me.

Good Ol' Uncle Sam

In the poster Uncle Sam, the message to join the military is clearly stated. He points at the observer or the audience to draw them in and make them feel singled out and as though Uncle Sam is talking directly to the audience. Then the text posted on the poster is all in caps-lock as though to scream his message across to the audience and makes them feel even more singled out.

Images and Text go Hand in Hand

Visual rhetoric is the fairly recent development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate, as opposed to aural, verbal, or other messages. An image can be a text in the same way that a speech. Text is made to influence an audience’s mind, as with a speech, and even an image. Images also add to a text’s meaning. Images and words work together because if a certain image is added to a certain text, that meaning that the creator is trying to convey is emphasized. For example this: 

The domineering figure pointing at the viewer feels like they are being singled out and the text emphasizes that feeling making the reader feel that they are that missing link that would help save a life, stop a war, etc.

Images, by themselves can convey meanings, however adding a text solidifies that belief and pushes that meaning to the audience.

An Aura in work

In Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” he discusses his take mass production and its effect on creativity and uniqueness as well as its effect on the audience. To him the concept of aura may usefully be illustrated with reference to the aura of natural ones and he defines aura as the ‘unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be’ and how they are significant to the audience.

For me I’m on the fence on whether or not mass produced objects lack an aura. While yes if you use Benjamin’s definition of aura and put it in context with mass produced object, then yeah, it would lose its’ uniqueness if it is one of one thousand. However I don’t think Benjamin’s idea that something mass produced would effectively squash any creativity and uniqueness to an audience. You can go on the internet and type in any movie that has been mass produced and get a different perspective of the movie. Benjamin compares a painting and a movie on page 335. He says that the ‘painting invites a spectator to contemplation; before it the spectator can abandon himself to his association’. However before a ‘movie frame he can’t because no sooner as he grasped a scene it has already changed’.

Yet there are discussions about certain scenes in a movie, and they can speculate about hidden meanings and contemplate a scene. While yes it can’t be right away if the scene strikes a deep enough cord, it inevitably stays with the viewer and they can allow themselves to abandon themselves to their association. A movie is just as much as an art form as a painting is. There can be hidden meanings (for example: several groups say there is the word SEX in several Disney movies), different genres such as feminism, action, homosexuality, etc.

While Benjamin is right in some areas, that mass production does end up causing an aura to be lacking, it’s not completely gone and also allows just as much contemplation from a spectator.

A call to action

"Consider this your call to action.

I know that we all love this site as an expression of our individuality, but the fact of the matter is, we are under attack. And what we do is distracting us from that fact.

The American government now has all the records from Megaupload's servers. Do you know what that means for you? That means that if you have ever used Megaupload, the government has your fucking number. And they will come for you.

You doubt what I'm saying? The government has been after Jamie Rasset, a single mother, now for years for $1.9 MILLION for downloading 24 songs from Kazaa. She's been appealing, and they're still coming after her.

$1.9 MILLION. FOR 24 LOUSY SONGS. And they will not let off.

Now look at your music folder. How many songs do you have? How many movies, how many books? It's going to cost you $150,000 for EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. How much are you going to be out?

And you can't escape it. Even if you claim bankruptcy, you can't escape it. They'll toss you in jail because you can't pay.

So no matter what you do, you. Are. FUCKED.

And this is your call to arms. This is when you stand up. I don't care if you're a kawaii blog, a grunge blog, a nerd blog, a pony blog. It doesn't matter what you post. Because I am calling on you to get this word out. Think it doesn't affect you? Just wanna bury your head in the sand? Fine. Guess what? The government doesn't care how much you ignore it.

In fact, they're counting on it. Because if you ignore it, it makes it so much easier for them to come after you.

You cannot hide from the government, because they will hunt you down like a rabid animal. And in ignoring this, you are CONDONING THEIR ACTIONS.

Imagine this, for a moment. You go to a website, enjoy their content. You link it to your blog. But the site you linked has copyrighted material. I hope you're ready to land in jail. Because it's already happened. Richard O'Dwyer, A UK RESIDENT, is in the process of being extradited to the US for doing just that: LINKING TO COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL.

Look at all those gifs you have, all the ones you've posted, all the art you've drawn (either yourself like a talented little artist or if you're a retard, recolored/traced/based) that is reflected off of copyrighted content. Starting to realize how this is going to affect you? Everything you have on your computer that's copyrighted, everything you've ever posted that's now on the servers, if those are seized, becomes evidence. Anything you ever linked to on Facebook, evidence, because it's there permanently. Even deleting it does no good, because it's still there on the server.

If you're still not convinced this is going to affect you, goddess, I envy your ignorance. Because the fact of the matter is, they will come after you for this, eventually. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but it will happen.

You need to make your voice heard.

If you are a musician, use your voice and your music to speak up.

Artists, paint the world with the word of this injustice.

Bloggers, writers, anyone with any access to social media, SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.

WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS INJUSTICE TO STAND. WE CANNOT GO SILENTLY. I AM CALLING ON ALL OF YOU NOW TO MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

I AM CALLING ON ALL OF YOU TO TAKE 5 MINUTES OUT OF YOUR DAY AND SPEAK YOUR MIND. LET IT ALL OUT. SAY WHAT YOU REALLY THINK! If we're all fucked, and this is coming down on our heads, THEN GET THE WORD OUT NOW!

WE CANNOT BE DIVIDED BY OUR DIFFERENCES ANY LONGER.

WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO SILENCE US.

WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO STAND. BECAUSE WE ARE THE VOICE OF THE WORLD!

That's right, you. The person reading this right now. Think of it. Millions of voices from around the world, all speaking out, singing the same song in perfect harmony, saying WE WILL NOT BE SILENT IN THE FACE OF THIS OPPRESSION.

Because they want your information. They want you to be complacent, a happy little sheep in their giant corral. Because the more sedate you are, the easier it is to slowly steal your rights until you're nothing but a mindless automaton, another cog in the machine.

And do you really want that? Do you want the reality of Huxley and Orwell to come to light, Big Brother watching our every move, monitoring our spending and our viewing habits, coming down like the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head, barely there, only a hair holding it up from swinging down and taking you?

Or do you want to be the ones to wield the power? Do you want to be the ones saying "NO. WE BROUGHT YOU HERE, WE CAN OUST YOU!"

If there is one thing I've learned over the past year, it is that the people have power. Look at Egypt, at Libya. The people took back the power, and it changed things. They stood up to their government and affected change, because they stood up as a UNITED FRONT!

And that, my dear people, is what I ask of you. Reblog this if you can't think of the words to say. Say it with music that you love, with your own message attached. Make a gif if it's your form of expression. Draw a picture to go along with your words if you cannot express them.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IN HEAVEN, DON'T JUST SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING. It doesn't matter how old you are, or where you live. It doesn't matter what race, what religion, what gender you are, or your orientation. It doesn't matter if your blog only covers certain subjects.

Because soon, the way things are going, this will all be gone if we don't fight.

The internet, as we know it, will no longer exist.

There will be no more free media. No more access to the television shows you love so much. No more free access to music. No more free articles on the latest fashions, or the latest trends. No, this will all be gone, replaced by whatever the government sees fit.

So please, PLEASE, if you love the internet, if you love your fandom, your fashion, your gifs, your music, your movies, your facebook, your twitter, your blog, your anything that you get from the net, MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.

I'll close this essay with a poem that truly does fit, for all of you that don't believe this will affect you. I'm changing it a bit to better fit the subject matter of this essay/rant/plea:

      
First they came for the downloaders,
        and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a downloader.

        Then they came for the youtubers,
        and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a youtuber.

        Then they came for the bloggers,
        and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a blogger.

        and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a social networker.

        Then they came for me
        and there was no one left to speak out for me.


Thank you for your time. Goodnight, my fellow people. I hope to continue seeing you for a long time to come…If not, it was an honor blogging, arting, networking with you all. And ask yourself this: If they come for you, how will you feel knowing you could have helped to prevent this if you'd just spoken up in the first place?"

**I did not write this, I only want to bring awareness to the few that watch me!**

An Aura in work

In Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” he discusses his take mass production and its effect on creativity and uniqueness as well as its effect on the audience. To him the concept of aura may usefully be illustrated with reference to the aura of natural ones and he defines aura as the ‘unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be’ and how they are significant to the audience.

For me I’m on the fence on whether or not mass produced objects lack an aura. While yes if you use Benjamin’s definition of aura and put it in context with mass produced object, then yeah, it would lose its’ uniqueness if it is one of one thousand. However I don’t think Benjamin’s idea that something mass produced would effectively squash any creativity and uniqueness to an audience. You can go on the internet and type in any movie that has been mass produced and get a different perspective of the movie. Benjamin compares a painting and a movie on page 335. He says that the ‘painting invites a spectator to contemplation; before it the spectator can abandon himself to his association’. However before a ‘movie frame he can’t because no sooner as he grasped a scene it has already changed’.

Yet there are discussions about certain scenes in a movie, and they can speculate about hidden meanings and contemplate a scene. While yes it can’t be right away if the scene strikes a deep enough cord, it inevitably stays with the viewer and they can allow themselves to abandon themselves to their association. A movie is just as much as an art form as a painting is. There can be hidden meanings (for example: several groups say there is the word SEX in several Disney movies), different genres such as feminism, action, homosexuality, etc.

While Benjamin is right in some areas, that mass production does end up causing an aura to be lacking, it’s not completely gone and also allows just as much contemplation from a spectator.

The "Correct" Language

We were asked what is “correct language” however in both essays that we read; Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” and Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”, they support the answer that there isn’t an actual “correct” language. Every race, ethnic group, etc. has a different version of a language. As in Anzaldúa’s her language is Chicano English which deviates in many ways from Spanish brought from Europe to Mexico and to Central and South America. In her essay she talks about how different languages can mold with other languages. We tend to perceive English as the “correct” language, and then try to press that language onto people from different countries, and then grow belligerent when whoever they are trying to teach have an accent and can’t speak the way we do.

Ironically we’ve created different versions of the English language. Like Tan talked about in her essay that she used “all the Englishes she grew up with” (Tan, 305) and referred to those Englishes as either simple language (English she spoke to her mother), and broken language (the language that her mother talked to her with). Nowadays we’ve simplified the English language even more (i.e. Laugh Out Loud=LOL).  And in both essays the audience affected both women. For Anzaldúa, everyone was attempting to tell her that the Chicano English was wrong, even those who also spoke Chicano English. For Tan she became sensitive when she was around her mother. For me the audience greatly affects me. When I’m with my friends I tend to be loud and outgoing, and I will argue a bit more. With my family I tend to be quieter and my language sophisticates itself and I sound more mature to them.