Humor: Mass Media Toys with Your Mind
In this article, The Cyberculture News informs our readers how easy it is for the mass media to influence society. The public needs to be made aware that they are manipulated by some form of mass media every day of their life. Please be advised that we shall attempt to influence what you see and may temporarily control your mind.
The proverb, beauty is in the eye of the beholder allows people and societies to have different opinions as to how their brain interprets visual stimulations. Mental recognition, or learning evolves as a conditioned response to what we have been exposed to over a period of time. Cultural and historical influences help shape the way we perceive text images as well as photos, and classifies them into good or bad, sexy or ugly, and valuable or worthless.
Take this example of toying with your mind and the following influential descriptive text images, A Picture of a Half Moon.
Did you just see a picture of a half moon?
Were you just mooned?
The average human brain always seeks the easiest means for categorizing images. The Cyberculture News persuaded your brain to visualize a moon shot. You were also manipulated into seeing what The Cyberculture News wanted you to see.
To further illustrate how the mass media influences the public, look again at the photo. You do not see a half moon, what you see is life about to bloom.
Do not try to change your thoughts. The mass media controls the way you think.
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