Entry #3. Shifted Society

The Wall-E video may only be under 5 minutes, but sends about 5 million little messages for the world to open their eyes and see. Which most of us clearly can't. Personally, watching this video makes me feel very apprehensive for our present-day society and for the future as well. As you can see in the video (click to see it!), there's a lot going on. Boom, right away there's technology here, there, and everywhere throughout the whole screen. However, you see these overweight looking characters just depending on all sorts of technology. It's like they don't even blink. One of them falls off the high tech moving chairs and Wall-E is there to pick him back up. This whole snippet of the video represents how American society is today. Everyone is too busy on their phones, laptops, ipads, or whatever and a number of these people depend to get through their days with these items. With this in mind, this leads to us being more lazy and dependent on something other than ourselves. What would we really be without these kinds of high tech components? Miserable.  There's a scene where itty bitty little babies are born into that technology world already. Sort of showing how kids today know nothing but the technology life. It's not necessarily a bad thing but kids back then went outside to play, and were taught verbally and physically by a teacher. Teachers didn't try and use some kind second hand tool to teach the kids. It was their own knowledge. Kids nowadays can just enter any type of question they need answered and Google will 99.9% come up with some kind of answer. Which causes kids to stop thinking. Another scene, is where everyone in their red clothes, all at once, changes into a blue outfit. Everyone wears the same outfit, but they didn't have to get up or move a nail in order to have their clothes changed. Most importantly, you see that these characters don't actually move at all; therefore, everything else around them moves, and supports these people in every way possible. I guess you would see that as the good life but only people today would say that because most of us have created that huge layer of laziness on ourselves. Thinking that this sort of laziness is okay, is not. Technology is an awesome invention, but it's gotten out of hands. Wall-e is a character that realizes how bad it's getting and tries to help, but he knows it'll be hard to take care of.

To sum up our society today in a few words are:

• lazy
• dependent
• interactions changing
• adapting to new things
• addictive
• brain-washed