102-14. Our Blogging Queen
14 years ago
Friday, October 16, 2009
1. Voyeurism with an enormous raido
"The enormous radio" was written by John Cheever in 1947. I was a little surprised when I read it was such an old story. It represents one of the major problems in our society; voyeurism at another persons life. It is realy sad that behaviour still exists whether 50 years pasts or not. It was the same when there were less education, it is the same with more civilized comminities and more educated persons. I mean of course educated people can limit themselves and dont interrupt another persons life, but there has to be some progress in the education level in 50 years. So it made me think that voyeurism is an instictive behaviour.
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I'm interested in your view that voyeurism is an instinctive behaviour. In what ways do you think societies were voyeuristic before the advent of mass media?
ReplyDeleteGossiping is the first and the basic way of voyeurism in my opinion. Society found a way to interrupt another ones life without the help of mass media.
ReplyDeleteYes, voyeurism has been always in our lives and it still is. By nature, the human-being tends to be voyeuristic :) Today we all have facebook or twitters and voyerism goes on existing even through our permission !
ReplyDeleteYes, it's an interesting observation that now we give our 'permission' to others to spy on us. To what extent do you think this is related to wider economic and social changes?
ReplyDeletei think education is not the real solution against voyeurism because curiosity is something instinctive. Education may control it in some level but cannot destroy.
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