Project Update 2

When I was thinking about what to do for my blog, I thought it might be good to show how it relates to consumer culture. When shopping for cars, you should think about what to do as far as getting the right car goes. There are many differences between different cars. Not just the styling, but also the interior space, and features. When you look for a car, think about what you are looking for, why you want those things, and how much use you would make of them. There are plenty of features that are useful, but they are expensive, and not everyone will make use of those features.

Features that the Ford F-150 Lightning has include things like a large enough battery to use as a power generator helps in a blackout, and it helps to be better for the environment. Gasoline trucks use a lot of gas and pollute the environment more than electric vehicles do. Of course, EVs are more expensive, but at least you would not have to go buy gas.

When you look for a car to buy, you can often think about the possibility of what benefits it might have. Sometimes it takes extra thinking to see those benefits though. According to Simulations,

“In this impossibility of isolating the process of simulation must be seen the whole thrust of an order that can only see and understand in terms of some reality, because of an offence, if it is a patent, will either be punished or more lightly (because it has no ‘consequences’) or be punished as an offence to public office (for example, if one triggered off a police operation ‘for nothing’) – but never as simulation, since it is precisely as such that no equivalence with the real is possible, and hens no repression either” (Baudrillard 40).

In that case, it is good to imagine what would happen if you bought a certain car before buying it for real. The book also says, “The challenge of simulation is irreceivable by power” (Baudrillard 40). In that case, it is good to wait and see if it comes to you. In fact, I want to show other cultures that they can and should think about what features are worth buying, how much interior space there is, how safe the car is, and its value. I am hoping to make a good video to talk about those things for this class. In that case, my project belongs in the consumer culture.

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