This video by Ara Glass illustrated us a normal 6 grade class during an art class. Two classmates sat down together and out of nowhere created a fake TV camera out of a box with a whole in the middle and a cord. With this TV camera they started making news report about everything and anything. Everybody envy them and wanted to have the same TV camera. The next day everybody made their TV camera and was making their news report. The TV camera became a trend and the shows became competitive. As day passed by, everyone try to make their camera fancy by adding new tools: for example a girl will add a pink cord, or someone will make a stand that will support the camera.
One day, a kid was getting beat up pretty badly by a bully, the kid surrounded them but instead of helping the hopeless boy they started recording and making their news report. It was as if the TV camera has sucked out all their sense of empathy. Teacher had to come and help the poor kid that was getting beat up. The teachers then decided to ban the TV camera because it went out of control and had changed the kid’s behavior. The kid acted differently behind the camera, they were over taking by the envy of reporting what was going on whether than helping the kid.
The message that the author is trying to project here is that, one minor thing can change everything else. I see that on my everyday life. Technology will be an example; the improvement of technology such as iphone, kitchen equipments had a major impact on our life. I don’t need to wash dishes like before I could just put them in the machine and press a button and it clean. Instead of going outside and play most kid stay home watches TV or play video games and this has a major impact on their health because they don’t exercise enough. Another example will be the iphone listening to music all the time, even when we around people we know and this has an impact on how we communicate and on our health because of the radiations. I could write an entire paper on how one thing can change everything else. If I had the choice I would have lived in the time where there wasn’t all these innovation to interfere with our everyday life.
Soifiat, you make some relevant connections here. Your observation that "It was as if the TV camera [had] sucked out all their sense of empathy" is particularly effective. Once they were hiding behind their imaginary cameras, the children lost touch with reality, yes?
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