Medium is the Message

The Medium is the Message There are many things that fill our heads other than our own thoughts in today’s society. Things like social networking sites keep people all over the world updated on the latest fashion trends and technology. While things like ad’s and billboards spread advertisements as far the eye can see. The media is everywhere, and it has a great influence on our lives. As said by Marshall McLuhan, “Our conventional response to all media, namely that is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract that watchdog of the mind.” +McLuhan’s belief stated in, “the medium is the message,” shows how mediums can be hot and cold. *The topics that will be covered are the “hot” medium of video games, the “hot” medium of slang and the “cool” medium of billboards.
It is one thing to be a dreamer, having a head frequently in the clouds and feet dangling just above the ground; it is a completely different scenario when someone is dragged into the never ending vortex of a diluted reality caused by video games. Players often spend hours upon hours a day with their eyes glued to the television screen and their headset firmly in place while wasting their lives away in these viral realms. In fact, the graphics in video games have become so life like that it may actually give off the appearance of an only slightly altered form of reality. I am not a gamer so therefore I do not understand the full concept of the attraction to playing games such as CoD (Call of Duty) and Modern Warfare, which are both games based on military combat, and thus the very idea spending hours inside a locked room playing games about things people already do in REAL LIFE sounds rather outlandish. The notion that people have become far too fixated and attached to their different forms of technology in this new world that is just bursting with technological