This book talks about a very important issue in our daily lives that is the communication. Human beings are made to communicated with the others, and depending how this communication is developed, we could have a better coexistence, in other words a peaceful community, in which there are respect for the others in their way of thought, and liberty to choose. Now a days our society has change the meaning of peace, for example now we can say that our country is in peace, beacuse we are not in a war. In this way giving a millitary meanig, since if we are not in war we are in peace, and that is the total opposing view that we can have about peace.
In addition, to have a point of view about the events that happened in our society the information is an essential point, since from there we get our oppinion, that is why the choose of the information sources is delicated and important. Most of the information that is given, it is processed by some people who print their personal interests there, when the informative media it supposed to show us the reality just like it is.
Personally I think, the most powerful relation that is showed in the book is the relation between population and the media, and how the media can manipulate our minds, giving us the wrong information in some cases. Furthermore, that is an attack to our liberty to free thought, because, how we can give an opinion if our bases are wrong?.
As the example in the beginning if we think that we live in a society with peace, we are worng in terms of the real meaning of peace. In our country our liberty to think and then choose are violate, because our information bases are influenced by the opinion of the people who want to control our thoughts. Therefore there is no peace in terms of an effective communication.
Taking this topic to my life, I remember that I never knew that the case of the swan dies, in Valdivia (2004), was so important, since that event affected our ecosystem, and moreover affected the rights of people there. We lieve in a supposed democratic country in which the goberment respect the diversity of opinions that people have, and the decisions that the citizens made. But in that case democracy, and the right to chose did not exist. As well in my case either for me, since I could not give a true opinion, because of I never knew the truth.
Very true Estefania. The power of the media is immense and terrorific. If you think that there has been a hunger strike by Mapuches for around 40 days now and nobody knows, that thousands of students march down the streets and they say "some students" in the news. We get a very distorted idea of thing, and unfortunately, the wrong things. I will not comment on the current violations of human rights because it would take too long.
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When you chose this book, I said myself What a drag! but I think I was totally wrong, you can not judge a book for its cover. But I totally agree with you because mass media shows only things that are not as important as other things, they edit everything, they don't let us watch things that are most important than a concert or a football game. They manipulate every piece of news and they diminish all important news like the problem in punta de Choros or Mapuches' strike.
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