Blog 5

I cannot believe this, finally we have moved on to our second book already and it is only the end of September. This one is an easier read for sure. I also think that I am beginning to like Tart…All jokes aside… He has been mentioned a lot lately, whether in our readings or in-class discussions. I guess he could very well fit the definition of creativity. Which make me realize that Hughes spends a huge (get it) sum of time discussing creativity, yet he makes it interesting to read. I really like that he wants the reader to read his book. In addition, he achieves this putting colors and pictures and making it associated with TV or movies or artists we know about unlike McTaggart, who made her book very plain and dry. Thus, it made me read Hughes with a deeper interest.
Which made me think about the first three chapters in a whole and how Hughes was using the things that he mentioned in these chapters while developing this book. One thing in particular stood out to me and that was how the “intensity of the images” and how their purpose is clearly not aesthetic.
Then I thought again about the book how it made me think about my connection with the images that I was seeing and my connections with the world I and how my own consciousness is affected by all these things. It was slowly starting to all fit together. I kept on reading creativity, power and consciousness repeatedly and something big happened. I realize that the media and all the things around us use these three things and trigger our own hormones, thus having an effect on our CNS. I also realize that we can believe in a lot of baloney without making since of it. Good book thus far.