Reality

Reality is all in your head, in this sense might mean "being or existance". The Matrix is not an illusion, but a program that uses others imagination, sort of like a prision of ones mind. What is real, we don't exactly know what it is, because it's what your brain precieves as real. We might be in a simulation program just like The Matrix, we'll never know for sure, we believe only what our minds wants us to believe.

Chuck Klosterman looks at Cereal Commercials to view how the exclusion of Cereal Mascots from participating in the activities of the main stream (i. e. the kids in the commercial) subtely influence our society's definition of cool from a young age. For Klodterman, to be cool in this society something must be exclusionary.

"Exclusionary cool" means when people are split into two groups. One group is "The Originals" and the other is "The Semioriginals". His example is, it would be legitimately inventive to casually walk around with the petrified skull of a orangutan under your arm for no reason, but this would only seem cool to a select class of performance artist.

When a new shirt comes out, everybody wants to get it because it is the new coolest trend, but you decide to get the other one that only a few people have, those are the two groups. He states that a better choice would be a T-shirt featuring the cast of After M*A*S*H. A cool image also needs to be a semielitist, but it can't be wholly elitist.

I don't mean to put anyone or group out on the spot but the Asian table in the cafeteria that we sit behind. I say this because I know a few people that are in that group and when I go over there to make conversation, the whole table looks at me with a nasty look, they do it to other people that I know to, but it's cool. I think that there only used to having other asian people talk to them but I'll keep on bothering them because it's funny.

Trix commercial

The spokeswoman that works for the Trix company is obviosly someone who is trying to sell the product to the kids, the one who wants to brainwash the kids into thinking that Trix is the best cereal. She somewhat represents government because she has the power of who wins and who loses. The children represent themselves, they are the ones who ask the adults to buy the product for them and with competitions like in the commercial, are absessed with it. The rabbit represents the obsessed kids that really want the cereal, they would do anything for it, even study fact about it to enter contests to win a free sample. He's kind the loser in a society because no matter what he does, he never succeeds in what he is trying to accomplish. Everyone looks at him a different way or treats him differently, one example is when the children in the commercial say "silly rabbit, Trix are for kids". The word "silly" means lowly in rank, so they are clearly calling him a loser.

Meaning

The word "meaning" has a lot of different definitions, but to me it is the explanation or message of what someone has to say. I believe in this because everything has a meaning of whats out there. People might ask you, what's the meaning of life? Or Why are we here or even whats in space beyond the limits that we have accomplished. If you ask a random person on the street one of these questions, they will give an answer and if you ask another person, they would reply with a completly different answer for what they believe in.

Sean

I belong to the second group, which is when everything is connected because when something happens to me, something better happens. One example is when i got a low mark in math, I was so mad, it motivated me to do better next year. That time I got an 64% compared to last year when I got 85%.