Super hero

In the past week, we mainly focused and discussed about super hero for different people's perspectives. I imaged a “Dragon Boy” this figure as a super hero I believe we need in this world. I think that super hero should not have been break away from our daily life and reality. Although he/she has a kind of super power that other human being do not have, the super hero should come from the people without doubt. People created these hero to help us to achieve a series of goals or hope that we can not easily accomplish in our life. The human being always looking for perfect life to achieve their unlimited desires and gratification. When they realized that they can not actually through their hard works to satisfy their final goals in reality. They chose to create some nonexistent God or super hero to instead of them to accomplish their dream. That is why that super heroes never represent themselves but people who create them. In most of time, super heroes also become a perfect moral model to show the good side of the human nurture to us. I think that is because people hard to deny the how complications that human nurture are. However, they also want to only show the good side of human nurture to other people in their life. That is already self-contradictory. That is why people try to use super heroes this otherworldly concept and figure to make their dream come true. All in all, I want to say that the super hero is not a simple concept we saw from TV or movie but it response people's original needs and helpless in their life.

Superhero- The Dragon Boy

I want to create a Superhero named “Dragon Boy”. He is a 10 years old boy who always image one day he can became a Kung fu master to befriend the weak and the poor. The Dragon boy lived and grew up in remote mountains of Ming China which was 500 years ago from now. His parents both past away, when he was a baby. An old monk adopted him and growing him up in the temple. He did not have any friends or coevals who can play with him around the temple when he was young. One night, he saw his master practice Kung fu in the deep forest alone. Before that, he did not know his mater was a Kung fu superior at all. After that night, he started sneakily follow his master to the forest and learned Kung fu from him. One day, five soldiers intruded the old temple and try to force the old monk to offer 100 pounds rice as the combat food to the military. Old monk press soldier's suit and told them that no matter how the temple can not take out these rice. Soldiers became so angry and started to beat up the old monk. In this moment, Dragon boy decide to use the Kung fu he learned to fight back. However, he could not successfully defeat these soldiers and their guns. One soldier lost his patience and started to shot the old monk and Dragon boy. In this rush hour, the old monk used his qigong break all the guns that soldiers has and all the soldiers were run away. However, the old monk also was badly hurt after that. Before he dead, he told the Dragon boy that the reason he did not fight back earlier is because he does not want easily kill people even they are bad. He also told the boy that on the beam of roof, there has a Kung fu secret guide book. If Dragon boy follow the book and practice, he will got the trick of the dragon fist. At the end, he told Dragon boy that he should use Kung fu to protect people but not to bully and humiliate other people. That is the limitation of the Kung fu that Dragon boy learned from him. After Dragon boy practice the dragon fist from the book, he decides to leave the mountain to help people in the outside world. When he helps people, he usually could beckon a huge blue dragon to defeat the enemies. However, when people want to pay him to use his Kung fu to against with their own enemies, the blue dragon no longer come out. Dragon boy wears his old frock and hold his stuff walk betwween different towns and cities to punish evil-doers and praise good-doers. This superhero actually came from common people. Moss essay and Barker's article both try to explain that the really superhero actually only live in people's expectations. People created the figures of superhero with their own hope and expectations. The superhero should have common people's particularities but also need to have some kind of super power to represent and protect the commons. They are superheros but they also come from the people. They have something that common people do not have, but they represent the justice that common people believe in the final analysis. Without Dragon boy, the world is hard to find a hero to maintain the justice and equality. The dragon boy actually identify himself as a superhero to help everyone who need help. However, he mainly focus on how to take care of the weak and the poor without hurt from social inequality and injustice. That is the purpose that I create this superhero.

culture under modernism and post-modernism

In the class this week, we discussed and analysised the pop culture's origin, the differences and the connection under the Modernism and Postmodernism. I think although we mainly focus on the pop culture in our class, the social and historical background in different age of human society is really important to our topic all the time. If we ignored each historical age's background and characters, it is really hard to understand the different culture and value in the different age. For the Modern pop culture, it grew up under an age which material civilization had been rapidly developing. In this age, people try to conquer the nature but not worship it as what they did for past thousand years. It was a transform time for human history and society no matter from which historical point to view. The culture under this age was full of the independent, cubic, and abstract factors. They believe the human culture should no longer dependent on history or old cultural conception. In this new age, the Western world use its absolute preponderant technologies and sciences to transform to its cultural influence to the world. Under this age, the pop culture became more anti-traditional, westernized and abstract. Since 1960s, the postmodernism started to come on the global cultural stage. In this new age, people more care about individual needs, feeling and value. The culture in this age no longer excessively believe sciences could solve all the confusion and questions in human society and lives. They mainly encourage people to follow their own value and believe to be who they are. Under this culture, people do not follow or obey any unchanged concept or culture. The pop culture itself is create and develop by people. In here, the people include every culture, group, religion, philosophy, and so on.

Pop culture VS Classics

For many people that pop culture are tangential culture and social concept in the society. The pop culture can not successfully become classics to have homologous history position that classics culture had in history. I personally can not agree with this verdict and understanding for pop culture. In the last lecture, professor let us to discuss the Marx's social views and philosophy to analysis what are the differences between pop culture and classics. I think Marx really emphasize the importance of social classes' differences in his theory. Different people who come from different social classes could have totally different understanding and recolonization about culture, art or life style. The reason classics could became the classics which has very good reputation and high position in history, that because only few people created, understand, and comment them. Most people who live in the low social classes only can follow these few people's understanding to obey their thinking-line. In the course of time, because of this cultural monopolization, the culture that high social class created finally became the classics in human history. However, pop culture is different. The pop culture created by common people which could be popularly exist in the whole society. Front of pop culture, here has not have a kind of power force people to follow this type of culture. The pop culture do not have clearly classical limitation because it created by people. If the fashion or art that people created were liked by people. It also could become classics one day which finally have its own historical position. For example, Michael Jackson, Elvis Aaron Presley, and Madonna Louise Ciccon these people were the common people from normal social class but their music and the pop culture they created behind the music really changed the world and became the classics in history. All in all, I want to say that the pop culture officer an opportunity for every people no mater which social class you came from. It allow you to release your all talent and passion to influence this world and create your own history.

Intro to my blog

First thing come up in my mind when I hear "Pop culture"is some type of art that in mainstream in this moment. Music, film, TV Shows, fashion, we can list up everything composing our life as a pop culture. Using a term "pop culture" was easy in first look because it felt like I could put everything exciting and hot right now as "pop culture". But once stop thinking as a consumer of "pop culture" and start thinking the meaning behind, I started seeing more complex and interesting side of "pop culture." We watched film clip from "American Psycho" in the first class. The story takes place in different time from now and also exaggerated however I can imagine myself living in same situation with the main character in the film.  Pressure to fit into the society, try to go front of the what is popular now, even though he looses his identities. I'm from Japan and Japan is a great country. The information, technology, so called "pop culture" travel so fast in all over the country. However someone like me who don't have strong mind, easily to lose self identities and riding the wave of mainstream without notice. I want to learn different side of "pop culture" and look over how much "pop culture" influencing society and my life .  Excited to see how much my thinking or lifestyle changed after this semester. Like what I mentioned, the pop culture is not a easy term or concept to understand immediately but a social and cultural tide in our daily life. I think this class could help me to have a deeper understanding and cognition about pop culture's history, background, developmental trend and future influence.