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Thoughts on an article “The Frankenstein’s Monster of Social Media” by Brian Rosenburg:

The post itself was definatley an opinion piece, with little aid from outside sources. He talks about the values that we as a race are becoming indifferent to and are losing. Well I belive that we create the monsters we deserve. Of course anything left unchecked by morality and responsibility can become destructive. People now have the world at their fingertips but genius without maturity can lead to disaster. Technology has advanced faster than our ethics have. There is a war for attention being held by all sorts of media. The stakes seem to be should we choose convenience over conscious. When our vices become part of a new cultural minimalism is when it has become an issue. When it fades away it controls from the background. With the rise of all this information we can access from technology now, people are actually being overloaded by too many stimulations. Having too much information is just as bad if not worse as having too little. We have fallen into indifference and ignorance; We desire this false sense of security. We need more moderation and more interpreters of information. We should value Significance less and we should value Meaning more.

My first thought when starting this piece quickly settled to Lovecraftion horror. I wanted to lean more into the abstract: instead of focusing on the monster itself I felt inspired to focus on the context around it. I wanted to appeal to a feeling inside a person. This image explored process over goal and I tried to use as many features of photoshop as I could, making sure to appropriate and change the images to my will. The cave represents both fear and comfort. The blank phones represent the vast portal to the knowledge we have learned to crave. The colors of the world outside the cave pull us into what we know we want but the question we often ignore might pull us to stay away. Who exactly is in control?