Walc Values

Before I began my journey as a WALC student, I never truly analyzed or even thought about the values that run our society. I never had given our community and country, as a whole, much thought. I looked past all the bad things happening in the world and was too consumed in my own personal problems. The lessons taught in all of my WALC classes for the past year and a half has taught me to be more observant about my surroundings and the people. Over the course of years, the values of our society has drastically changed in my opinion due to the many forces and systems that had affected it. In this analysis, I will be focusing on consumerism, individualism, and hard work, the three main values that I believe is currently the values that controls
I have learned that through the media, the value of consumerism has definitely changed our views in life. Commercials captures our attention, makes us feel as if we are not good enough for society if we don’t get the newest trend out, that it has become a social norm in our society. It makes us feel as if we’re not good enough being ourselves. Many of us would rather prioritize our wants rather than our needs because it makes us feel good in a way. I have learned in my economic class that we now live in a society in which our wants has become our needs. The people would like to think that their material objects are just the natural benefits that always result from hard work, a reward. This means that they value and collect more material objects than most people would ever dream of owning. It also means they give higher priority to obtaining, maintaining and protecting their material objects than they do in developing a connection within themselves, the people around them and the world that we live
Everyone is doing their own thing to benefit themselves. I truly think that this kind of value is what will bring our country down. However, the upside of individualism is making our country “great” in the eyes of others. Because everyone is out trying to better themselves and make profit at the end, they are what’s keeping our economy running. Individualism has fuelled invention, the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and all the enterprise that has led to cheap necessities and fairly cheap luxuries - decent clothes, affordable housing, abundant food, and the mobility brought by bicycles, cars, trains and planes. While individualism can be good for our society, too much of it can affect