Victims of Hyperreality

The worldly function of service is focused on the benefit of the company and the selling of the product they are endorsing. A result of this would be one of the reasons why people create a hyperreality. People create a fake reality that exceeds a person's expectations from everyday life to satisfy their need for a better, more ideal reality than what is the everyday norm and struggle. Hyperreality is also created to justify certain morals that have not been commonly accepted yet. Let's take the concept of love as it is portrayed in movies today. How do we define love? Is it just for the fact that you admire a person for certain things you see in them? Isn't there a standard by which true love is really measured? I believe, yes. But in the movie Juno, love is portrayed differently. Juno had sex with Bleeker and became pregnant at a very young age & both were obviously unstable and at a shaky stage of their life, both without a real commitment (marriage). It's not till after they had sex that Juno goes and tells Bleeker that she loves him and says, "I think, I'm like, in love with you. No, like, for real, cause you're like the coolest person I've ever met and you don't even have to try." Well, if we base it on the Bible's standards, this is definitely not a real justification of love, maybe admiration, but not love. See how hyperreality has corrupted our world and made it fake? Our emotions are now so based off of different, maybe even lower, standards. But that's what hyperreality does, it changes how reality really should be and the standards of it. Also, what this hyperreality fails to show is that it's not always a positive outcome that will arrive on everyone. They show a happy ending in the end because come on, it's a movie. If there was a real teen out there who was in the same situation, things could be totally different for him/her.
Another example would be the concept of family. Instead of the father, mother and children making up the family, hyperreality tells us another thing. In the movie Teen Titans, Raven says, "You may have created me. But you were never my father...I was raised by my friends. They are my family. This is my home. And you are not welcome here!" In hyperreality a family now can be your little circle of friends. What people fail to see is the real reality because television only shows the good things about being in that type of relationship and this does not even apply to everyone when in reality there are much more problems and ethical violations that are not recognized. I think hyperreality has increased our possibility to "dream" and i mean like float away from the real thing, and just miss the point. We've based our own true reality on this fake reality that we don't even really know what's what and what is supposed to be anymore... and this is all just for the attempt to entertain people, make them believe in something that's not real and create this fake world.


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