Blackmores “Strange Creatures” explains the power of imitation and the affects it has on society and social media. In Gladwell's writing, he describes how social media is just a social structure. It holds no place when it comes to activism because of its lack of strong ties and its ability to form a movement with weak order. Blackmores theories help support Gladwell's idea to an extent, but also goes against it because of her ideas on memes and imitation. The civil rights movement, which first started off with a small group of individuals standing up for something they sensed was wrong. It all started out with four school’s kids and the next morning ended up with twenty-seven people standing up to what they believe in. Imitation, the leading
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Gladwell does not dwell at all on religion, but he does mention Martin Luther King who formed revolts through religion. In Blackmores article, she explains religion involvement in human originality and its decline of belief. Blackmore argues, “this view has to be wrong. Whatever the brain is doing it does not seem to need help from an extra, magical self” (33), one decides what she or he wants to do and when. With its decline of belief, she does not see religion as being a big part in future progression rather than a simple place in one mind when seeking comfort. Thus, not doing anything in changing the status quo. Gladwell does not mention religion, but religion played a big role in changing the status quo during the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther king, gave his speeches in churches and spoke about the aspects of freedom and equality with a prayer. Therefore, moving many into the path of the Civil Rights movement, where the minister was the leader of a revolution, “At the southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King,Jr.,was the unquestioned authority. At the center of the movement was the black church” (Gladwell …show more content…
The phone example in the last paragraph explains how far people will go for a chance of recognition. Which relates to Blackmores theories about the selfishness of meme and it ideals of beating out the competition to come out on top. Memes do not have set boundary, they will come and go without making much of an impact on life. Just like social media false sense of activism and its opportunist. For social media users, it is a battle on who gets the most praise from doing below average things. Once done, there are applauds and the next day is off the new person fighting for an average cause. Just like memes, nothing in social media stays and develops into the new, everything changes and there is no possible way a change can happen in the status quo when nothing stays the same. “It will not lead us astray if we remember that genes either are or are not successful at getting passed on into the next generation.” (Blackmore 35). Which goes to hand with Gladwell analyzing that with social media, nothing will ever get done to support future generations. Everything that is built done on social media is through weak ties and the false sense of doing something impactful. In relation to the sidekick example was done by weak ties that perform disorder and
Gladwell does not dwell at all on religion, but he does mention Martin Luther King who formed revolts through religion. In Blackmores article, she explains religion involvement in human originality and its decline of belief. Blackmore argues, “this view has to be wrong. Whatever the brain is doing it does not seem to need help from an extra, magical self” (33), one decides what she or he wants to do and when. With its decline of belief, she does not see religion as being a big part in future progression rather than a simple place in one mind when seeking comfort. Thus, not doing anything in changing the status quo. Gladwell does not mention religion, but religion played a big role in changing the status quo during the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther king, gave his speeches in churches and spoke about the aspects of freedom and equality with a prayer. Therefore, moving many into the path of the Civil Rights movement, where the minister was the leader of a revolution, “At the southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King,Jr.,was the unquestioned authority. At the center of the movement was the black church” (Gladwell …show more content…
The phone example in the last paragraph explains how far people will go for a chance of recognition. Which relates to Blackmores theories about the selfishness of meme and it ideals of beating out the competition to come out on top. Memes do not have set boundary, they will come and go without making much of an impact on life. Just like social media false sense of activism and its opportunist. For social media users, it is a battle on who gets the most praise from doing below average things. Once done, there are applauds and the next day is off the new person fighting for an average cause. Just like memes, nothing in social media stays and develops into the new, everything changes and there is no possible way a change can happen in the status quo when nothing stays the same. “It will not lead us astray if we remember that genes either are or are not successful at getting passed on into the next generation.” (Blackmore 35). Which goes to hand with Gladwell analyzing that with social media, nothing will ever get done to support future generations. Everything that is built done on social media is through weak ties and the false sense of doing something impactful. In relation to the sidekick example was done by weak ties that perform disorder and