ALIENS ARE REAL

   ALIENS FOUND 

   No I didn't hear about the weird things you saw in the sky last night while driving to McDonalds. Oh wait, I think I did, but I didn't tweet and hashtag about it and text my best friend. Actually, I think I did. But that isn't the point. The point is that we are obsessed with the idea of the unknown. You know "The Fourth Kind", "Paranormal Activity 1-5", "District 9. Those movies that we pay 8 bucks for and love. I just want to know why. 

   We, as a culture, love to learn. We feel proud of our knowledge and yearn to succeed. Most of the time. So when we aren't able to easily get the information we want, we turn to things like music, film, art to explain those things in different and exciting ways so we could at least understand it in one sense. Movies like "Paranormal Activity" feast our hunger for the other ghostly world that we don't know about and are afraid of. We know it isn't real. I mean, how do we really know? We don't and we are O.K. with that because those movies make us feel excited about those things and that is all we really need considering the fact that we may or may not have found evidence for these things. 

   2012. That was a huge deal in pop culture. The internet and film used this idea to their advantage to create entertaining things based on this "event". The film "2012" talked not only about the end of the world, but how the governments around the world created a ship that could withstand the floods and effects of this event. Is the government creating things that don't know about. Things that only they could use and are helpful. We not only are obsessed with the unknown, but are obsessed with revolution and the government turning against the people and being secretive. 

   Saturn Devouring His Son. A very popular art piece that was painted in the early 1800's. The artist, Francisco Goya was afraid he would be overthrown by his children. Again, the obsession with revolution and the turning against of. In American Culture, there is a theme on family. The teenagers are all want to revolt and are close minded and stupid. The parents are lost and don't know what to do with themselves and their kids. The parents are terrified something would happen to their children, but the "I HATE YOU MOM" hits it hard. The feeling of your own child telling you they resent you and wish you were never part of their lives. That is a real fear of parents. And this in society these roles are played because of this obsession with being part of culture and society, regardless the outcome.