“But Enough About You”
In his opening paragraph, Williams refers to “a massive migration.” What is he talking about, and what examples of this migration does he give?
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4 comments:
The "massive migration" Williams refers to in his opening paragraph is the move of Americans toward the "User-Generated Generation." The American culture has developed upon the idea that people care about only one person: themselves. They have rapidly adjusted to only hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see, do what they want to do.
Society has adjusted to agree with people's view. The web has opened the door to endless resources and possibilities which give people access to what is positive to themselves. People have become selfish beings that filter out anything disagreeable and soak up everything that is agreeable.
The “massive migration,” like Clara mentioned, is indeed the move toward the “User-Generated Generation.” As Williams mentions in paragraph three, it is the move toward “the celebration of self.” Williams is showing how the society has moved to one that is “all about you. Me. And all the various forms of the First Person Singular” (paragraph 1) through various examples in regard to the web. Williams shows how people have moved away from diaries to now called blogs, trophies are awarded to all those who participated and not only the winners, and television networks have agreed with people’s views. IPods only play the music one wants to hear and Internet programs filter all but the news one wants to hear. The society has been part of “a massive migration” as Williams shows based upon the idea of you and me.
Williams "massive migration" in paragraph one, refers to the fact that American society has altered into a self-centered, egotistical, selfish society that has no need to care about anyone else but themselves. In later paragraphs Williams gives a good example of this by bringing up a popular subject: the web. Now a days the web is used to praise ourselves in different ways. Websites such as Youtube, Facebook and even search engines like Google, provide ways for us to expose our own lives based upon the thought that someone will care.
As Kristeena said the "massive migration" is Williams' way of showing us how Americans have turned into selfish people, always thinking about themselves and no one else. William gives examples of how Americans are close minded in later paragraphs. The media is his basic example, William states that Americans only hear what they want to through media, everything is filtered out. This shows how Americans are selfish and only think about themselves and how issues will affect them.
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