These past 4 years of schooling really got me thinking..

I didn’t really learn anything though because all the classes were pretty useless. I think my current class (Digital Imaging Essentials) is the ONLY class that will be useful to me and i find that VERY IRONIC. You’ll know wut i mean if you actually read everything i say later on.

Even though I didn’t learn much, but my brain did a lot of thinking. Some random things (different topics) my academic classes have talked about triggered my brain to question about… EVERYTHING. To simplify alllllll my complicated thoughts, let me just put them into one short sentence: If everything we see/hear/learn is fake, why bother to care.

This might make you think I’m a pessimist, but people who know me know I’m NOT. “Then why would you think that way?”, you might ask. Well, long story short, the first time I got that idea was when I found out that the information within textbooks weren’t really true. You know how upsetting that was if you’ve spent almost 24/7 studying something such as HISTORY for many years and then few years later, you realized almost everything you’ve read was incorrect..  AHhhhhhhhh! Even now I still can’t believe it. I know it’s kinda silly to think that everything from textbooks should be CORRECT… but if teachers teach us based on textbooks, exams’ answers are based on what is written in the textbooks, I EXPECT THE TEXTBOOKS ARE RIGHT… or… I want my money back! -J/k-  But I was really upset cuz … cuz… HOW COULD YOU LIE TO ME MAN!!!!!!!!! I worked so hard and now I felt like I’ve wasted so much time and energy… All these years… I could’ve used my time on something else.. like.. sleep.

And now, it’s not the question about correct or incorrect but rather.. it’s who you want to believe. It’s no longer as simple as someone made up a story and then told you that was your history… It’s more like.. whose lie is more convincing. If you want to make it more interesting, I guess you could see it as a.. “game”.  See if you could tell which part of information is real and which part of the information is not.

There are so many information (texts and images) around us that are being manipulated. LIES LIES LIES!! The scary part is: most of them we are not even aware of it! Unfortunately, technology is making it worse. PHOTOSHOP, for example, is making our lives harder. We are visually oriented people.. so our brains work faster with images.. and people tend to believe what they see. Nowadays, if people don’t have time to read, most of them will at least read the newspaper or watch the news. The problem is, the news itself is being manipulated, too! LIARS ALERT! There are still many people out there who believe everything news says (I used to be one of them…) The popular issue that appeared on the news recently was about these two images:

And then people started to make fun of how Iran needs photoshop lessons

(from BoingBoing)

(from Michele’s blog)

(from whatthecrap)

Ok, i did laugh for a bit after seeing those 3 images… BUT! Let’s not forget, this is a reminder that we should not believe everything we hear, read or see… NO MATTER WHERE THE SOURCE IS FROM!! If we think we have much better photoshop skills(BETTER LYING SKILL) here , shouldn’t we be more cautious about the information we receive from here? (since we got so many good liars here… i mean.. since we got so many people here who are so good at making unreal images look like real images.. ) ………… So yea.. I hope people will realize that.

hmm…. i was so mad at those people who lied to me (people who manipulate information).. but now I’m training myself to be one of them (cuz im learning PHOTOSHOP)..  *chuckles* …

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Sometimes I wonder..

If news aren’t real, why bother watch it?
If politicians are good at using words to trick people, why bother go to their speeches?
If textbooks are full of incorrect information, why bother use them?
If schools are brainwashing us (because of different believe systems), why bother go?