Blog Entry 5: "I know the Truth"

I believe humans are easily deceived by rumors and flat out-lies becasue we accept others person's word due to fear of not being accepted with the rest of the group. Also, humans tends to follow the pack, similar behavior is found in other species inside the animal kingdom.

Is a proven fact humans don’t like to be alone. Unconsciously sometime we tend to agree with others just to fit in, to make friends, to be accepted. This can be extrapolated to the example of what happened in Nazi Germany, huge use of misinformation and misleading lies that convinced massively the majority of the population of a wrong ideology, there were some people not completely convinced but still could not express their opinion because of fear, maybe at first just fear of not being looked at the same way by their friends and close ones, thereafter escalated to fear of imprisonment, furthermore fear to death. We all know that history and we all know what happened but learning from that experiences we can see how easy people can be manipulated.

Likewise the behavior found in other species, humans are not an exception to follow the pack and stay inside the group, animals use it as an instinct of survival for example when is being hunted by the predator. Humans also want to survive, let’s say in maintaining their position in society or whatever the reason is and to use it to their own benefit and to improve their well-being in life. Networking with others can lead you on getting a job. Theirs is more chance of success as a group rather than staying behind the pack where the chances of survival will decrease.

Blog Entry 4:

 1. Claim: Humans are easily deceived by rumors and flat out-lies

 2. Reason 1: Fear to not be accepted with the rest of the group.

 3. Reason 2: Human tends to follow the pack, similar behavior is found in other species of the animal kingdom, as well humans are not an exception.

 4. Thesis: Humans are easily deceived by rumors and flat out-lies, becasue we accept others person's word due to fear of not being accepted with the rest of the group, is a proven fact humans dont like to be alone. Also, Humans tends to follow the pack, similar behavior is found in other species of the animal kingdom, as well humans are not an exception.

Blog Entry 3: "The Allegory of the Cave" Summary

How will you describe the difference between, the feeling of knowing the truth and not knowing? Socrates, the inventor of Philosophy was asked a similar question by one of his pupils. He could not answer this question with just simple words. Socrates used  an allegory of a cave to help his student visualize and have an idea of what the answer is. He describes a story of a group of prisoners tied by their neck, looking towards a wall inside a cave since their birth, there only reality to there knowledge was shadows, this was caused by fire and the people passing along the wall. Furthermore, he goes on describing how one of this prisoners is set free and realizes that his life inside the cave was not the true reality. Socrates describes the process of this free prisoner adapting to the light outside the cave. This tale is discussed with one of his student accompanied by questions, stimulating this student to think about the meaning of the allegory in real life situations. Socrates finalize the story, narrating that this free prisoner, now accustomed to the light outside the cave, one day decides to go back, with intentions to show what he now knows to the other prisoner, however fails to convince them about the truth, about the "Light", he is threaten to death by those prisoners which remained inside the cave. They did not want to listen to, those inside the cave did not know better.  The free enlightened prisoner now knowing the truth ends up preferring the light and no longer be in the darkness.


Personally, in this point of my life, it is difficult for me to know with certainty my stage compared to Socrates cave allegory. However, I believe to be in the phase of "walking out into the light" because it is in my main interest to learn and receive the highest education as possible, being in college and studying points me to the direction of where the "light" is. I'm motivated in gaining experience, achieving my career and personal goals. I like to travel and learn about new places around the world, traveling to different country's I consider that opens your mind and provides a valuable experience which expose people to different cultures and reality. I also am into reading books (not counting college course books), where I can find the truth and the answers of many life questions. Another sphere where Ive always been interested since a small kid has been "History", my favorite subject of study. I think is very important to know the past, where we come from, what has been before us and so on. I'm convinced it is indispensable to have knowledge of history at the moment of taking decisions in various aspect of our life, because I had learned that the past tends to repeat itself. Still I had not arrived to the "Light", I have a long way to go, many objectives to accomplish and I wont stop till I am out of the "Dark".

Blog Entry 2: "I Know the Truth".

Jeffrey Kluger, author of “I know the truth, so don’t bother with lies”, presents the situation of how humans tend to easily believe rumors and flat out lies. Mr. Kluger shows a real life example of a Mosque planned to be constructed in downtown (ground zero) which brought along a huge scandal and turned into a problem caused by fabrication of gossip. The human reaction of accepting misleading information despite the real facts, are augmented by Kluger,  with evidence from Ohio State University research and other studies, they all conclude proving the human weakness of ignoring  the truth and falling under, lets say, in some type of group pressure mentality.

Blog Entry 1: "Hype"

I am convinced, that specially now days advertisement are the most toxic of the mental pollutants.

     The marketing field is huge and is taken very seriously by those whose expertize is to attract the public using commercial ads or what ever medium it takes to transmit a message in favor of a product, company or service.

     Once I read in a article of CNN "e-news" quote "More than 50 percent of the total information that America's population  receives, is in regards commercial propaganda" this consisted in a study  between persons of age 12 to 45 years old. Like Kile Lasn the author of "Hype" wrote "There is no where to hide. No one is exempt and no one will be spared." OK, those words might sound a bit drastic, however it is a very true fact. I have noticed myself  being exposed to so much advertisement that I end up impulsively going for shopping with out the need to do so.

Also, allow me to add a fact about the city where I live, New York City, the place where you can find the maximum exhibition of advertisement, nothing similar like Time Square, home of the most enormous displays of ads I ever seen. Every single time catches my eyes.

Not to forget, there is a great amount of research done in marketing in order to develop strategies intended to capture the public's attention.No wonder the most successful company's in America invest the majority of their resources in advertisement.


Advertisement consumes a large part of our mental capacity due to the reasons mentioned above, unfortunately this is a tendency which will not change any time soon. I personally expect, some time in the future there will be an organization which will control this issue and make our daily life less mentally toxic.

Getting ready to blog inside the matrix, for class ENG099.

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