Saviour of Celebrity Zombie Attacks!

I am quite glad that the Doc put this option on as our last blog! Perez Hilton is howls! But on a different note, he is a pioneer. Understanding the pseudo attempts of celebrity culture in North America, Perez in a comical manner is trying to break the Average Joe from what I would like to think of as "celebrity coma toast." Dominant groups within the media have somehow managed to feed upon the public's need of celebrity gossip and establish a celebrity hegemony in order to sell magazines.

Great celebrity stories are concocted, most fabricated, in order to sell more and more magazines and stories daily. It is people like Perez, with his unconformist pink hair and witty shananigans, who are needed in order to make the public aware of this ridiculous hegemonic ideology created by the media. So who cares if Britney Spears is at the bar and decides she wants to have a good time. If it were our neighbors doing such, we would feel obliged not to make a deal of it. So who cares if it is celebrities doing such. I blame these guys for it all!

Only through the discourse of such men as Perez Hilton will society cease to act as Celebrity Zombies and stop buying into the hegemonic ideologies of the celebrity culture!

Shocking news headines

The use of tazers as a means to protect officers is not always as entertaining as such. In recent news, a man in Vancouver was recently killed when police had used a tazer while trying to subdue the man. A video of the incident can be seen for one to make judgement upon.

Such a video has caused a global outcry over the incident. Authorities had even made an attempt to keep the release of this video from the public eye, but failed to do so. This was most likely an attempt to prevent media from placing a spin on the incident. With only 4 Corporate Media's within Canada, it would more than likely be the case with the video's release, the whole story would not have been told. The release of the video did much what police had predicted. Judgements were made as to the actions taken by police officers that resulted in the man's death. The public was outraged that the four policemen in the video went to such lengths to restrain a man, that onlookers described as scared and misunderstood. However, the Canadian Media, in their attempt to appease its viewers left out information that the man had been throwing objects, shouting at the police as they calmly approached the man. In a closer look at the video, it is apparent that Mr. Dziekanski was holding a foreign object in his hands when police had first tazered him, leading to the second and fatal tazering. But this was not dwelled upon by the Canadian Media like the results of the incident had been. In fact, if I were to be writing an article like such for a newspaper, chances are it would not be published, for it is would not be in synct with the views that they would wish to portray.
Please, do not assume that I believe the death of Mr. Dziekanski to be in vein or trivial, hopefully some good may come of it. It is clear that with 17 deaths over the last 5 years within Canada, that tazers are not the safest means for police to subdue a suspect. In light of such incidents, police should consider alternate means such as the next video displays. Minus the comical music, it is very well feasible that safer means for police to restrain suspects are available.

Mirror Mirror on the wall

Nicole Brown's submission to Vogue.com is an excellent example of one with a well defined self-image. So much so, that she even claims to be "perfect" for flair.com.
But at what point is "perfect" considered to be conceided. This is a grey area in society. In order to be taken as a successful individual, one must first give the image of being such. While it is important to give a strong representation of the self-image, one must be careful not to stretch this too far! No matter what you do, say, how you say it, appear to be, you are constantly being defined by others. This is why an image of the self is of importance. One must be able to keep aware at all times the image you presenting to others.

While this video pertains particularily to visual appearance, it gets the point across! Every detail about the self reflects to the way those in the world perceive you. It is important to be aware of the self-image you are projecting to the world, because quite frankly, we can permit whatever image it is we want.
Example:

Let us return to Nicole Brown. So is she "perfect" or conceided? Well in no way is she conceided. She simply is aware of the image to which applies to the position she is applying for. She recognizes the self-image nessecary in order to meet the criteria of flare.com. A company involved in portraying imagery to the public, they can not invest time or consideration in a person they feel that is not capable of portraying that image they are selling.
Now take the following video, and compare the difference. It will be clear the boundaries between "perfect" and conceided.