War of the Words

For those that have not traveled extensivelyfor they way she was taught, but blamed the
outside the borders of our country, the only linklack of Canadian money and the abundance of
we have to the outside world is the media. MediaAmerican. Her vision is not of being conquered by
can be books, newspapers, television, and evenforce or by religion, but by money. Her claims
internet today. Each medium must be studiedthat the reason Canadians were able to blend into
carefully before taking the information as thenew societies better, was simply that no one
"gospel truth". Who is the author, where did theyfrom her country could afford to bring the whole
come from, and have they themselves traveledcountry with them, unlike the Americans who
outside the borders or are they on the writings oftake all of themselves where ever they go. So is
others? Dr. Paul Harrison, Margaret Atwood, andAmerica the giant to blame for their influence on
Postman would have you believe that their wayCanada?Postman identifies entertainment to be
of looking at the world is the only way. Beforethe downfall of America. By providing movies
we can examine a certain view on the Unitedinstead of books, a vacuum that haunted
States of America, we must first define a basicholocaust Germany is forming. By making life so
belief of the world. Each of the three authors haseasy with new technologies for themselves,
a slightly different view of how America is tearingAmericans have again begun to be lazy. Television
itself apart and in turn doing the same for theis what is ruining the country because it is a
rest of the world.In the chapter Thecommand center for all. Since each American
Westernization of the World by Paul Harrison, heevery night tunes in to the exact same ideas,
points out the religious aspects of Paulinethey in turn do not have to think and very few
Christianity of Europe was the beginning ofdisagreements emerge. Debate is the bane that
creating sameness throughout the world. Insteadforms new ideas and also new books. So books
of settling in to the new worlds and assimilatingare not being read and in a hideous circle, books
into the culture as the Dutch or Spanish, theare not being written. Society is collapsing on itself
Europeans squashed the difference of eachand taking the rest of the world with it. Postman
people, naming the Bible as the reason, and forcedalso points out in irony that the very Bible that
a complete new way of life for the "newlybegan all these issues is the same that tells us
enlightened" tribes. Basically, the missionaries wouldtelevision should not exist. As television begins to
enter a new land and in turn, blanket the childreninfluence the rest of the world with satellites,
with a new education, give the adults books oneveryone begins to wear blue jeans from the
their way of life, and start a new government insame place, where their hair a certain way and all
their likeness. The color of the people's skin is thebecomes one. If television and movies are
only difference remaining and some began to bedestroying America, is it America place to stop
ashamed of how he/she looked. In turn, theythe spread of this new mind numbing
began to want to emulate the Europeans andpandemic?The answers are simple: no, no and no.
force was no longer needed. Harrison believesYes Europe is responsible for pushing their way of
that racism, arrogance, military superiority, sociallife onto other cultures, but it is not now
climbing and money, not religion is the real reasonAmerica's responsibility to police the world now.
for this behavior towards the new worlds (thirdAmerica is being to over extend itself as Canada
worlds). He states the results have become adid in the '40s. And yes a vacuum is forming that
world of where traditions and differences are aneeds to be filled with something besides TV. But
thing of the past. The question now before usit is up to each individual to decide for themselves,
starts to reason, if others want to be like theresearch their own culture and history in
American/Europeans template called the Europeaninnovated ways themselves, and then choose the
road, are they to blame?Margret Atwood, alifestyle they each want to live. In history, there
fellow Pantheist also has a negative view of thehave always been Mavericks that decide that the
United States. She looks down on the countryway things are going now is not right; I am going
and her nose from Canada. She spends timeto do things differently. If America takes on the
concentrating on our most recent combined pastresponsibility for the rest of the world, it will
of post world war II when she was a child.collapse into itself. The writers that wrote the
Americans before that time were viewed asarticles descried above are showing others a
clumsy, lazy and ignorant of the land. America'sseveral different path, it is up to each person to
money was welcome at that time in Canada andturn off the television, open a book by a non
since there was great need having over extendedEnglish writer, and book a plane ticket to
themselves in the war, many were happy tosomewhere else.Works CitedVerburg, Carol.
have it. Then things changed for both the countryOurselves among Others. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford
and the writer. She explains that her schooling, herSt. Martins, 2000.Holly Odom is a freelance writer
recreation, and her entertainment began to beworking for - on line Custom Writing/Research
American. Her education was pretty much thecompany. She specializes in Social sciences, Arts,
same as American received at the time. Political,History and English literature. During 2005, earned
military and social leaders were all from England.became one of 10 best writers at essaymart.
Atwood does not blame the Americans outright