We chose to do our presentation over the song “Real” by James Wesley. We chose this song because it talks about how our society is viewed in the beginning, but then he reminds us of what we actually go through. He brings us back to reality.
We feel as though our culture has changed with the technology. TV use to have only a few channels, now there are hundreds, like it says in the song. We are finding more and more time to just sit there and stare at screens, rather than going out and actually bonding with others, in person. We find ourselves watching meaningless channels like Reality TV. Last time we checked, “housewives don’t act like that.” Those TV shows are all about these high dollar women dealing with their “problems.” Housewives that are not on TV are doing the best they can with their kids and family. They are not high dollar women, and their problems are completely different from the ones on TV. You never see housewives on TV facing the fact that they are not going to be able to pay the electric bill. You never see them praying that they are going to have the money to buy groceries for the next week. The TV portrays the life we would all like to live, but many of us get lost in this fact and lose sight of what is real.
Another thing that is going on in our society is that jobs are moving. People are losing jobs because the companies are leaving the U.S. because it is cheaper. Like in the song it talks about losing jobs because they are moving to Mexico. This is real. There are people losing their job each day and are becoming more aware of the struggles in life. People do not think that the impossible can happen to them until it does. People in our society today walk around like nothing can stop them and that they are invincible. However, this should not be the case. Our culture is changing, and our younger generations are being brought up with the idea that their opinions are right and that bigger is always better. You also have to have the best of everything to be considered up to date with our culture and society. This song makes us ask ourselves, what are the real things in life? The song is saying that we should be looking for the quality of life and not for the quantity of it.
Another thing mentioned in the song is a “21 gun goodbye.” Everyday people are fighting for our freedom and our ways of life. However, this noble act almost always goes unrecognized. Our society has grown to learn to take things for granted. We do not give enough recognition to those who fight for us so we do not have to. We also never recognize our farmers. Without them, how would we get our fries to go with our Big Mac? There are very few people in our day and age that want to grow up to be farmers. The sad thing is, we need farmers. We need them to produce goods for us to survive. Our culture and society is so obsessed with new and change, that we fail to remember these kinds of people who make our lives possible.
We believe that the society as a whole gets so involved with each other about what is new and what is going on, that we lose sight of what is going on in our own lives. We tend to look too much at what other people have and what we want than what we need. We believe that how our new culture and society is growing distracts us from what is real.
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