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... Dave Jortner
The Western Growth from the Greek Reality
Today is related to yesterday, as time is relative to infinity. ... In his theory every moment moves from its central point outward until it reaches a point of equilibrium, upon reaching equilibrium time begins to move backward along the same path. ... There is no regulation stating that two events in time must be within “X” number of years from one another to influence the process of the other. ... Lets look at the ways modern western society is “reached” by its governing body with news and current events verses that of the ancient Greeks. Is there a relationship between the modern media and the Greek forms of informing the public? ... In affect I argue that the six o’clock news is one of the most successful forms of live performance in the modern western culture. ... Everything from pasting stickers on phone booths to well organized political speeches to every Joe Shmoe trying to sell his new invention for drinking six beers at once is a form of media. ... ” On page 131, McLuhan presents an article from “Variety” entitled “Ice Boxes Sabotage Colonialism. ... Diaries from IRA chief of staff Sean MacStiofain and his wife Maria McGuire as well as memoirs of German urban guerillas Michael Baumann and Hans-Joachim Klein and of the Palestinian figures Abu Ijad and Leila Khaled have shown seven key methods of using the media for terrorism. ...
Now I would like to recap the importance of media as we know it and shift into the Greek era. ... population verse the Population of the ancient Greek world.
Because our knowledge of ancient Greece is limited in that we were not there and we have no electronic media to see visually how the society worked as a whole, I would like to focus on the deductions that can be made from the records of the theater of the age. ... Plato proves the importance of the arts, specifically poetry, when he expels poets from his utopia. ... Baldry discusses this topic further in “Ancient Greek Literature in its living context. ... ” But what makes the arts of theater so influential in the Greek culture? ... I think there are some undeniable aspects of the Greek theater and I’d like to try and focus in that direction. ... One major accomplishment that has helped in forming our culture is the role the audience plays in Greek theater. ... (Schechner, p 246) This form of theater was very different from the descriptions Schechner has of theater in the Shamanism rituals. ... In fact the audience filled the roles of the Greek audience and of the Greek chorus. ... (Schechner, P185) In my humble opinion, this shift from an active audience to a dormant group of on lookers represents the beginnings of the present subservient society. ... As I think about the job of the Greek chorus I find myself asking, “Do we have a modern chorus? ...
In any Greek play all actual action (e. ... Both concepts have been carried from the Greek tragedy to the modern news. Both feed on propaganda to extract emotion from the audience. ... Think about any election race or when the lobbyists from the anti-drug groups make a commercial or hang a bill board advertisement. Oliver Taplin in “Greek Tragedy inaction” brings up a final point that I feel always has been the future of tragic presentation.
Approximate Word count = 2771
Approximate Pages = 11.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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