Self-Determined Actions

Teens and pre-teens are maturing at a much faster pace than when the phenomenon of reality television took off. Additionally, the internet popularized an unprecedented generation of children by using the internet for knowledge. Today, teens are surrounded by many forms of information in just a few clicks. Smart phones alone have lead to a generation of people who publicizes personal information about their lives with little to no consideration for the consequences of their actions. Our fastpace culture is stealing innocence by exposing teens to a culture of sex and violence and lead teens to emulate unfit role models and radical behaviors. Through the use of cartoons and critical essays, I will show the connection between our modern culture …show more content…
The nature of stories, which many commonly know as characters making self-determined actions to advance the plot; however, it negates such beliefs. Self-determined actions in real life depend more on what people have to work with in life and less on their ideal or preferred situation for their character. The truth of the matter is that decisions taken in real life hold a lot of uncertainty of outcome. In this way, real life personalities contrast with actions with more predictable outcomes are Without much of a story to tell, especially one that is as grandiose or dynamic as the ones typically found in works of fiction, the average life is disposed to employing slow, boring, and mundane rituals as they approach situations in life. In his animation “The Bear That Wasn’t,” Chuck Jones explores how people can be forced into heavy decisionmaking. The story centers on a bear who loses his concept of identity. His cartoon focuses on a sadistic bear who wakes from a hibernation only to randomly find himself in the midst of a factory built ontop of his cave. He is told by the foreman, who is oblivious that the protagionist is a bear, to return to work. The foreman informs his supervisors after the bear refuses to take part in the work, and all of them concur with the initial demand for the bear to get back to work, overlooking the fact that he was never employed. The bear, with all these businessmen, eventually have a …show more content…
One such storyteller is David Foster Wallace. In his speech “This Is Water,” he explains the purpose of life, at least according to him, and what a college education actually means. A parable he uses explains how water can act as a catalyst for fish to determine reality, similar to the way people try to better understand the unknown. This philosophy creates significance and relates with the search for identity as one enters adulthood. Mr. Wallace describes the importance of people concocting their own rational thoughts. He states that “‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think” (“This Is Water”). From his speech, Mr. Wallace suggests that identity can be found by seeing the world with an open mind and not believing that your worldview is superior to someone else’s. The speech ultimately concerns how adults find meaning and how someone should find