Reality Shows Essay

While the purpose of lying is to distract from the truth, bullshitting, as Harry Frankfurt describes in his essay On Bullshit, stands in its own class. Bullshit is a technique politicians and others use to sway the masses that disregards reality entirely. It occurs whenever someone makes a statement without considering “how things really are,” in Frankfurt’s terms. Throughout his political career, President Donald Trump has often ignored objective facts in favor of promoting bullshit, which his…

The story is told to Plato’s brother Glaucon by Soctates, Plato’s mentor. The story begins with three prisoners that were chained, immobilized, and forced to face a wall since birth. They had mistaken the images that were being cast on the wall for reality. They heard echoes which they believe were the voices of the shadows that they had seen. One of the prisoner was then released from the cave. When the prisoner was dragged out he was forced to examine his life and examine the life outside the…

around them. Their whole lives they have been trapped in a false reality in which they wont know they are in. Day in and day out they watch these shadows on the walls cast by puppeteers and fire. They don’t know an outside world or other people all they know are the shadows in their captivity. In a way these puppeteers are playing god for these people. They are creating a reality for these people that become their personal reality. It then goes on with the question of what if one person escaped…

what is going on in the real world. In short of the situation, the cave dwellers are being robbed of what true reality is. The shadows that…

Descartes. Plato takes over Socrates work and keeps his legacy going in his writings. Additionally, the introducing of the idea of knowledge of the true forms and the necessity of knowledge of reality leading to a true self-knowledge. In the same way, “The Matrix” forces the main character, Neo to learn the reality which forces him to a true self-knowledge and an overall true knowledge of what he is presented with. Education as we know it is not true education in the philosophical form, but in…

world produced by Orson Welles produced on Halloween night in 1938 which took place in New Jersey scaring the nation to the point cities were evacuating. Orson Welles created a radio drama that frightened listeners on Halloween night. Although the show created chaos,it wouldn’t have happened if the listeners listened more closely or listened to the whole broadcast .Listeners believed the war of the worlds was real because of the well trained actors,high quality sound effects,and may have not…

An Earthly Knight By: Janet McNaughton Book Review -Pauline Artienda An Earthly Knight is a novel about Lady Jeanette Avenel (Jenny), a sixteen-year-old girl who is faced with an event that will change her life. She is a willful girl who has so much freedom being the second daughter of a Norman nobleman. Suddenly, everything changes when her older sister, Isabel had brought disgrace to their family. Now, Jenny has to take the duties of her sister. Considering all those responsibilities,…

What is reality? This seems to be an easy question to answer but it isn’t. Philosopher through time had spend their entire lives questioning themselves between what is real or what is not real. There are so many different version of reality that they don’t know which is which. Instead, philosophers define reality as the state of things that could actually exist through imagination but whether or not it’s comprehensible depending on the person’s perspective. In the movie, “The Matrix’’, a man…

Although, the media just doesn’t present us with a reality; they represent it. News media presents aspects of the world in a certain way, some of which are not always truthful. These constructions serve a purpose. News Media presents us with different versions of reality, which can hold truth but also serve a certain objective. This essay will debate to what extant does the news media present an objective and truthful representation of reality. This will be illustrated through the representation…

as security causes maintenance, lack of full knowledge systems, and preserving unreal ideas. Foucault sees the dilemma in society as the system that individuals continue to watch each other and make sure everyone fits into social facts. Foucault shows that this surveillance “is based on a system of permanent registration:…