Post Class 9/26 - Courtney Sparling

When I walked into the classroom today, I was wondering why Kanye West's song, Stronger, was being played. I am familiar with this song, and noticed that the lyrics include the repetition of words like bigger, faster, stronger, better, and harder. I really liked how Dr. C tied used this song in our discussion of the cult of the new.

The cult of the new is so prevalent in the world today, especially in America, when products such as the iPhone 5, and social media websites, such as Facebook, create such a fanaticism and desire in people to be yet another person to get his or her hands on the new phone or be part of the website.

I liked how we talked about the release of the iPhone 5 today. There was such a hype surrounding Apple's latest smartphone and people are still trying to get their hands on one (even though it seems like the iPhone 4S was just released just a short time ago). This picture shows a line of people waiting outside an Apple Store just to buy an iPhone 5.

Capitalism basically runs the show now. Virtually everything is driven by money. In capitalist societies, people become obsessed with new products (hype) and want them, maybe not for the quality, but to say that they get what everyone else is getting. I really do believe that the media is the main driving factor behind what we think we need in this trap we are in called, the cult of the new.