There are a stunning number of things in Los Angeles that have an effect on how the world does things. The most obvious of these, of course, is the movie industry. By catering strictly to the tastes of 18-24 year old boys, the film business manages to somehow shape reality for nearly everyone who lives on the planet. There is something very catchy about the images of pretty people doing pretty things, or having wild adventures, that strikes everyone in some significant way, apparently.
Some film theorists say that this is a complex process, where the film image projects images that audiences accept and internalize. Once this happens, then they are willing to internalize more, so that their identity, and our identities for that matter, are composed of pieces of what we want to be, and what we think we want to be. It’s a kind of game that used to only happen in Hollywood, but now we play it every day through the films, as well as through networking sites.
Visiting the town and holding up where there are some excellent
hotels , there is a great chance to get to hear about how people live here. Like anywhere, there is a lot of talk about the sites. More than anywhere, there is some very conscious effort being put into the profiles. And there is a great deal of agonizing over things that happen on these sites, because they seem to mirror reality.
It’s hard to imagine what might happen with the decline of myspace , and although there are some who say it will come back, others suggest it’s going away , which means that a lot of performances of self might go somewhere in a lost space in time. These were much more complex things to build that facebook, and there was more room to perform the self here. Although it might turn out that we are more sophisticated after all, and become complex in how we perform on facebook, using the fan pages like the French used to use the handkerchief, inventing a language of flirts that no one could have imagined, and no movie company could ever create.
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