What role do creative media play in cultural change?
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What role do creative media play in cultural change?
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I think Fleisher did a really good job of sharing his political views with the main goal being to benefit and care for all people. He has a very open-minded view about people and seems to abhor stereotypes. I walked away with a good deal of respect for him because of how apparent his love of all people is in his writing. I really enjoyed his inclusion of Qasim and Rasha. Such wonderful characters.
The one thing I'd say he did not do so well was he got a little boring in his dialogue between Trudi and Vince. Vince asked a lot of questions about owning a gun, buying a gun, using a gun and it just got a little too extensive. Those portions tended to drag on.
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However, the book takes a side rather then inspiring thought and that is where I feel it wouldn't have a cultural impact.
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I don’t think the NRA are really that horrible, at least not right now. There are many good people who are a part of it. It doesn’t seem too far out that they could run a senior discount though. The attitude presented by their leaders seemed a bit exaggerated to me, but I think that was for the purpose of the novel. I think the problem is the NRA doesn’t recognize that all situations are not the same, and what’s appropriate in one context, such as rural setting, is not necessarily appropriate in an urban apartment setting.VMCMILLEN88 wrote: ↑07 Mar 2018, 23:49 I believe the author did a wonderful job of opening the minds of readers to the senior citizen experience and psyche. The younger generation is too busy working their tails off to make ends meet or staring at their phones to really take notice of the plight of others. Between the author's wonderful skill of writing and my own experiences with elders, I was able to better understand the issues facing the elderly and how they feel about it. I do believe the author could have done a bit more to tell the NRA side of things as well as he did in all other aspects. He really nailed the background of business, science, and relationships, but he was lacking on the NRA background and perspective. -Unless I am wrong and they are just really that horrible...
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Listening to both sides is critical in any serious discussion!
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The concept of the watch would make a great episode of Black Mirror. For those of you who haven't seen it, every episode is a short story about a type of futuristic technology. It follows characters who use it, and typically shows the pitfalls of that technology. It's very much a warning about being too dependent on technology. The rest of the issues presented in Final Notice are almost all hot topics right now anyway: gun control, responsibility of the NRA, and immigration.
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