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CMC 300 will be an interesting class and should help me gain a better understanding of the world that I live in. One interesting thing I came away with from our last lecture were the three words absurdity, meaninglessness and surrealism. As I look deeper I feel that these three words can help define certain things in the world that we live in. Almost everything that is shown too us in the news, the media and most of the things we do in our day to day lives could be classified into one of these three words. These acceptances of these three words are becoming part of who we are and are not typically a good thing. This ties into the Samuel Beckett play. I have not seen this play and would like to so I could gain a better understanding about these three words

The second interesting point from the previous lecture was about how “Postmodernism is an aura, not an era” (Casey). This shows that postmodernism is not something that can be looked at in a text book many years from now and has a beginning and ending date. Many things have occurred during this aura and these things have affected the psyche of people. Now a day’s people have the idea that almost everything and anything can kill or harm them. For example stores are taking peanut butter and products with peanuts off the shelf because of salmonella poising. I am now scared to eat peanut butter and am scared because I ate trail mix last night that had peanuts in it. News and movies do a very good job of taking our fears and turning them into profits. Advertisements now show you these fears and give you a way to solve them, such as buying their product will solve the problem.

As the world is continually reinventing things and plurality, parts and new technology are now the new thing, I am going to try to gain a better understanding of what postmodernism really is and how it is affecting the world we live in.