I heard about people complaining about how they wanted to be in love or have a relationship with someone they can love with. The media bombarded us about romance since we've been watching t.v. The media makes people try to believe that you have one soul mate, one lover that you will love for the rest of your life. In television, music, and even the news they allude to us that love is real and it makes everyone happy. For the example " I Love New York" on MTV. They had a woman being indulged by a bunch of random guys and in the end she falls in love with one of them. Or the other reality show, " The Bachelorette" they had a bunch of girls try to woo a man over and in the end he will marry her because he fell in love with her.
The media digs a hole into our brains making us believe that love is real and everyone needs it. Another example would be Romeo and Juliet, they one met once in their life and somehow they just knew they were soul mates. The media makes us feel like we need someone in our life to lean on to and someone we can have reassurance to. I know a real life situation, where my friend was trippin' really hard when his girlfriend dumped him. Whenever we would drink, he would break down in tears. I tell him whats wrong with you there are plenty of other girls everywhere. He just replies, "I don't care, I fucking love her!" I believe the media really did play a role for him breaking down so hard because it was his first girlfriend and in our group of friends everyone has a girlfriend. So I think he believed that he had to have a girlfriend and the first girl that ever gave him that much attention was the only one for him.
A video that just described to us about how the media ruined you life with love.
Great example of the impact of a pervasive media message, going back to the time of Shakespeare (his plays were mass media too, right?).
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