Thursday, September 8, 2011
Blog #2
As I was reading "It's Gotta Be the Cheese" I kept laughing at the lines like "cover me head to toe in pe-sliced singles of this food." The author repeatedly makes jokes about cheese and how perfect we have made it since we process it and chemically change in a lab. This poem is funny but it indirectly makes fun of Americans. We try so hard to something perfect and waste all this time and money just to make a simple piece of cheese taste "good." In Culture Jam, Lasn is straightforward and just calls out Americans on buying things we don't need and wasting money. He then goes on to talk about how Americans are hypochondriacs and they always think they have something wrong with them. The exact same point that is being made in the "Cheese." We thought something was wrong with the cheese and we had to keep fixing it even though it was probably just as good to start. I'll agree with both authors in some but not all Americans always try to have the best things or always feel they have some sort of sickness.
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Do you think the humor in the poem is an effective method in presenting the issues present in the poem? Do you think that the problems with our society have gotten so bad that all you can do is laugh about them? Other than just wasting money, what does the poem seem to be saying about American culture?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that even though Kadosh's poem may have come off funny at some points that it was supposed to be satirical of American culture. Do you think that the American's who want the "perfected cheese" will ever be content with what they have or will they always try to have the best and newest "cheese"?
ReplyDeleteYes, not all people say or think they are sick. It is just that society feeds into the things the medicine says and psychologically they think they are sick. However, they could just be sick in the mind.
ReplyDeleteI do think there are serious problems with America though. I just think that we go overboard because we try to fix everyone else’s problems as well as our own. We are never content with what we have. Just like the cheese, we are always looking for something else extra to add to it. Sometimes we need to just go back to "simple cheese" and see if that works better for us. Meaning look at some of the things we have done in the past and see if certain things work better for us now rather than back then.
I agree that the poem was funny and I think it was good way for the author to make their point. Americans have become obsessed with making things perfect.
ReplyDeleteMan, while I hate too, I aggree with his big idea (americans are excessive and most of us are probably midgrade hypocondraics). I did kind of like the analogy of us to cheese, that was a little creative, but again I don't agree with the way that he lumps us all in there. God bless the USA.
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