Friday, October 2, 2009

Dave R. Michaux--On Media and Technology

Technology and media have become part of our day to day lives. How do you feel about this? Is it a positive thing? Negative thing? How would your life be different without technology and media?
I like it. I think that it is a good thing generally. If it weren’t for technology, I wouldn’t be able to so conveniently boil water for tea. We wouldn’t have ice cream that would last over night. And I can’t imagine live without ice cream and tea. I think that they are good things, but I think like everything else in this world, they can be taken too far.

I think that too often we are concerned with pop culture, especially in like entertainment in the media, and who is dating who, and who is pregnant with who’s baby, and who got a face lift, and who got a picture of who on the beach with someone else’s guy.

But I love video games. But like everything else, technology and media in moderation is good.

Without technology there is no printing press, and there would be no mass manufactured books! There would be no computer on which you would be typing. And there would be no Princess Bride.



Do you think media is biased? How so?
Everything is biased. Your face is biased. I think some media is more biased than others. But you can’t record anything, you can’t comment on anything without inserting some type of bias, no matter how hard you are trying.

Favorite candy: Almond Joy
Favorite music: My favorite music depends on my mood. I enjoy metal—Christian metal—such as Disciple (Here he points to his Disciple hoodie) I enjoy old time rock and roll, such as Steppenwolf and Bob Seger. I love Frank Sinatra. I also enjoy folk and blue grass like Nickel Creek and the Avett Brothers. I don’t much care for pop country. Or death metal. Or most gangster rap. There are some I really like. I like Jay Z’s “99 Problems”.

Favorite color: red

Favorite Bible Verse: Deuteronomy 10:17-22

I like pickles. Pickles out of the jar.

I want to love people. I want to hang out with people, and I want to mix the two together. And I want to be like Jesus. I fail quite a bit. But I try.

C’est fin.

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