Media: America's Metaphor

The chapter addresses metaphors, specifically metaphors in American culture, and even more specific how the media shapes our metaphors. The comparison of several American past times were once considered to be, " The American Spirit" are incorporated into the chapter. Looking into certain aspects of American cities can reveal an old state of our country. Chicago for instance, holds nostalgia for when America was, "railroads, cattle, steel mills, and entrepreneurial adventures" (Postman, Pg. 3). Going to discuss how today's views of people, in specific our high political figures plays an impact on elections. Addressing how President Taft would most likely not be voted into presidency, not particularly due to his lack of credentials, but a great deal with appearance. We as Americans today tend to idealize looks, we use looks to make decisions and pass judgments. What are looks? Looks are based off of our language and our perceptions, which are geographically varied. In our culture, our language is our metaphor, but our metaphor stems from the media, without the media, and the televised versions of what society deems as "norms" we would have no language as addressed in this chapter.