In the early 2010’s every single person in the United States of America knew that H1N1, more commonly known as swine flu, was being evaluated as this centuries version of the bubonic plague. Everywhere you went there was a plentiful supply of hand sanitizer at your disposal in order to minimize spread of germs. Americans fear death from diseases and do just about anything possible to prevent that fate, yet they will not consider taking a closer look into their everyday habits. If they did they would realize it is the unnecessary things in life that should truly be feared. The illustration depicts this message by painting a scene of an obese person with a USA shirt on surrounded by “super big” fries, soda, and a beer; above him a speech bubble
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to combat this people turn to outlets that take away that pain. The illustration includes two of the biggest suppressants; alcohol and cigarettes. Alcohol and cigarettes both are relatively cheap ways for people to temporarily numb the pain and stress that they feel in their everyday lives. This is especially popular amongst, yet again, the less fortunate people. For example, when driving through small poor towns in New Mexico you will see about five alcohol and smoke shops compared to the one supermarket in town. Even in these smaller towns the fear of death through disease is still very real; high precautions are put in place to protect against diseases yet these people treat their bodies so poorly with the ingestion of alcohol and cigarettes. In these locations people generally do not have the most superior education system so they rely on the information they are exposed to. Select Americans do not even believe that cigarettes can cause lung cancer; yet they believe a virus that kills African women and children is going to kill them because that is what the media focuses on covering. The government does not contribute money to the improvement of the school systems in these areas therefore allowing this lack of knowledge to create a cycle causing a combined death toll of 538,000 a …show more content…
As always, art is open to interpretation and the message can be construed from mind to mind based off many changing variables such as education level, socio-economic status etc. The message in this illustration seems apparent; Americans are provided with such watered down information that create a fear based on the least plausible cause of death while supporting the ignorance of the everyday things that are the root cause of the slow killing of mass numbers of people. I strongly agree with this as a person has been given the opportunity to be exposed to the knowledge of how destructive GMOs and growth hormones actually are when consumed. The government of course knows these affects, but nothing is done due to the fact that it is a multibillion dollar industry. The government does not provide access to this crucial information to people in poorer areas only supplying them with biased ads and media pushing them to indulge in these detrimental acts. In these instances, the distraction technique is then implemented, such as the Ebola outbreak, to instill fear in Americans hearts as a distraction from the real things that are leading to almost a million deaths per year. I strongly agree with this stance due to all the evidence previously stated that can support the claim
to combat this people turn to outlets that take away that pain. The illustration includes two of the biggest suppressants; alcohol and cigarettes. Alcohol and cigarettes both are relatively cheap ways for people to temporarily numb the pain and stress that they feel in their everyday lives. This is especially popular amongst, yet again, the less fortunate people. For example, when driving through small poor towns in New Mexico you will see about five alcohol and smoke shops compared to the one supermarket in town. Even in these smaller towns the fear of death through disease is still very real; high precautions are put in place to protect against diseases yet these people treat their bodies so poorly with the ingestion of alcohol and cigarettes. In these locations people generally do not have the most superior education system so they rely on the information they are exposed to. Select Americans do not even believe that cigarettes can cause lung cancer; yet they believe a virus that kills African women and children is going to kill them because that is what the media focuses on covering. The government does not contribute money to the improvement of the school systems in these areas therefore allowing this lack of knowledge to create a cycle causing a combined death toll of 538,000 a …show more content…
As always, art is open to interpretation and the message can be construed from mind to mind based off many changing variables such as education level, socio-economic status etc. The message in this illustration seems apparent; Americans are provided with such watered down information that create a fear based on the least plausible cause of death while supporting the ignorance of the everyday things that are the root cause of the slow killing of mass numbers of people. I strongly agree with this as a person has been given the opportunity to be exposed to the knowledge of how destructive GMOs and growth hormones actually are when consumed. The government of course knows these affects, but nothing is done due to the fact that it is a multibillion dollar industry. The government does not provide access to this crucial information to people in poorer areas only supplying them with biased ads and media pushing them to indulge in these detrimental acts. In these instances, the distraction technique is then implemented, such as the Ebola outbreak, to instill fear in Americans hearts as a distraction from the real things that are leading to almost a million deaths per year. I strongly agree with this stance due to all the evidence previously stated that can support the claim