PLATO'S ALLEGORICAL CAVE RECKONING

First, there was Socrates! Old Socs in the middle probably giving his mates his reckonings, Plato by his side getting excited Athenian style SOURCE: http://brewminate.com/from-presocratic-to-classical-greek-philosophy-a-shift-in-focus-and-methodology/

Then, an old and wise Plato with his gossip mags in hand talking with a young Aristotle, to view my reckonings of Aristot's check this previous post of mine out. SOURCE: http://hipporeads.com/plato-and-aristotle-on-the-american-state/

A coloured illustration of the allegory. SOURCE: http://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TheCave02.jpg

I really enjoy reading Plato’s BookVII of The Allegory of the Cave, applying it to any form of modern day social norms of social media and the internet is quite fascinating as it stands symbolically with my views on what the internet is doing to us by acting as our chains to willingly but forcefully view unrealities by displaying false images and content when all one needs to do to experience real life and all that represents good is to break free from the comfortable ignorance we live in but can liberate ourselves from.

I think that can be applied perfectly to that of a video gamer too! Below I’ve created the likeness of Plato's Allegory of the Cave to the mindless consent of the video gamers.

(You can probably tell also my distaste for video gamers here, all most as much as my own chains to internet addiction)

Plato's Cave. SOURCE: https://lightnightgreekfire.wordpress.com/platos-cave/
Video Gamer. SOURCE: http://www.altmuslimah.com/2015/03/dear-salma-my-husband-is-addicted-to-video-games/ 

edited photo linking the two concepts together by yours truly.

MEDIA PORTRAYAL: CYCLONE DEBBIE

 

 SOURCE: Cyclone Debbie hitting Queensland

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie in 2017 was the strongest tropical cyclone in the Australian region since Cyclone Quang in 2015, the lengths Queensland and Northern New South Wales media went to report the dangers of the storm- While positioning themselves within the destruction of the storm wasn’t just ridiculous; it made for great television and the whole of Australia went through the roof with tuning in.

Source: Inundated breaking stories from every media channel

“The morning shows live for big stories like this, We know that people switch regularly during breaking news — so the way to keep the audience is to ensure best pictures. You can’t guarantee best pictures unless you have multiple crews in the field.” Adam Boland from Sunrise told news.com.au

And constant coverage, forewarnings and inundated breaking news from the media did pay off, along with the help of social media sites during and after the disaster, public transport was offered free to people needing to get home, farmers saying that the hashtag #cyclonedebbie was the only thing that saved their harvest. With help from websites and online pages to help support those caught in the aftermath of the crisis, Support Relief Efforts were organised to donate money and goods with support events also being organised. (Controversially hardly any help from the Federal Government, might I add. Queensland applied for $220 million in Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements, the Government paid $29 million and offered local businesses loans)

SOURCE:Springbrook's Pine Creek Road. Great captured content

With live communication updates online and on television played a major role in informing viewers and many affected by Cyclone Debbie. Another ‘pro’ to the internet and social media being a savvy and helpful tool in our modern day society.

ADA LOVELACE, LIVE!

I found Ada Lovelaces myspace profile from 2006? WEEEIIIRDDD

REVIEWING THE REVIEWS: CATFISH (2008 DOCUMENTARY)

SOURCE: Catfish Documentary

Massively criticized documentary CATFISH, is a 2008 post-modern film that, considered a hoax, follows the story of a film maker named Nev, a guy from New York who befriends a young country girl named Abby after she emails him a painting of his work. Nev engages a friendly online relationship with Abby's family; her older sister, Megan, and their mother, Angela over Facebook. As he becomes more and more romantically involved with Megan via IMs, texts, phone calls, little details start to become twisted and introduces the implications and dangers of online identities and the people behind them. 

 

SOURCE: Nev on his way to hunt down fact from fiction. A review from The Independent suspicious of real and fake.

In viewing this “documentary” I felt an array of emotions, first dark mocking humour for the good-looking guy about to get his heart broken to the audacity of lengths people will go through to construct false or extended identities for themselves online, to then feeling sympathetic and sad for those same people.

SOURCE: A post modern review on the film relate-able with my reckonings

It’s definitely a rollercoaster of emotion with relatable and relevant representation of (real) characters in this film, at any time you are able to empathise and put yourself in the shoes of all involved; the protagonist, the antagonist and the anti-hero, with good fairness of depiction (once the boys had ‘figured’ out what was going on) to the characters, all but one: Little Abby. With having no thought for potential damage, the film may cause her while growing up, all involved didn’t stop to think exploiting this young girl could inevitably result in facing the fall out of her mothers fantasy life that was displayed in cinemas across the world, without being given the correct coping mechanisms to help her manage the ordeal she had no say in to begin with.

The Guardian Fact or Fiction is another review which presents issues supporting the falsities behind the documentary.


 SOURCE: An idiom turned meme which is a popularized cartoon in The New Yorker, it has come to illustrate an understanding about the way privacy and anonymity work on the Internet.