It is fascinating to find that things that apparently seem to be so different can be developed in such way that they sustain the same point of view. If we think about the career of a very tall, basketball player; people attraction to voyeurism; the career of a country music singer who beats records in discs’ selling, and the use of laugh tracks in comedy sitcom, it looks like there can not be a strong connection between them. Now if we consider that the public is looking for this basketball player, with such natural gift, to be very good. We realize that we enjoy a movie or spying on other people just because we dream of seeing something unpredictable. We learn that the career of that country music singer crashed because he assumed he could
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When we are watching new movie or observing somebody’s life, we are excited because we hope to see or learn something that will surprise us. The theory of Klosterman about voyeurism is that: “voyeurism pleasure is more physical than psychological.” (7). Most of the time voyeurism is boring because, our expectations are almost always crushed by the reality; nothing surprising happens; and after a certain period, things start repeating. Furthermore, sometimes expectations are literally turned into a kind of alternative reality. It is the concept used by Garth Brooks, at the top of his career, to create Chris Gaines, his alter-ego that he brought to life through a book and a record. In that alternative world, a fruit of the imagination of Brooks, Gaines was very successful and his first solo album was on top of the greatest music’s ranking boards “An extraordinary 224 weeks in the Billboard top 200 before winning a Grammy.” (8) In the real world, the album selling was a …show more content…
Facts and events in reality are often used to evaluate the extent to which projections have been accomplished. If most of the time the reality shows that projections are underachieved; there are nevertheless some cases where it goes over them. Klosterman succeeds through its essays to make a point about how too high expectations can lead to a bad interpretation of reality. He points out, how emotions and compassion can alter our feelings about different people. He also brings out how the pop material to which we are exposed is actively modifying our behavior and our conception of
When we are watching new movie or observing somebody’s life, we are excited because we hope to see or learn something that will surprise us. The theory of Klosterman about voyeurism is that: “voyeurism pleasure is more physical than psychological.” (7). Most of the time voyeurism is boring because, our expectations are almost always crushed by the reality; nothing surprising happens; and after a certain period, things start repeating. Furthermore, sometimes expectations are literally turned into a kind of alternative reality. It is the concept used by Garth Brooks, at the top of his career, to create Chris Gaines, his alter-ego that he brought to life through a book and a record. In that alternative world, a fruit of the imagination of Brooks, Gaines was very successful and his first solo album was on top of the greatest music’s ranking boards “An extraordinary 224 weeks in the Billboard top 200 before winning a Grammy.” (8) In the real world, the album selling was a …show more content…
Facts and events in reality are often used to evaluate the extent to which projections have been accomplished. If most of the time the reality shows that projections are underachieved; there are nevertheless some cases where it goes over them. Klosterman succeeds through its essays to make a point about how too high expectations can lead to a bad interpretation of reality. He points out, how emotions and compassion can alter our feelings about different people. He also brings out how the pop material to which we are exposed is actively modifying our behavior and our conception of