Eng. "Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex" by Camille Paglia

In recent years there’s been a debate of how the new generation doesn't care about pretty much anything since we have technology at our tip of our hands making us not to question anything; because it is believed that whatever there is on the net then it must be true. But does it really make us that naïve? Even up to the point of not identify or value sexuality. Apparently Camille Paglia believes it does on her article of “Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex” stating generation Gaga is “marooned in a global technocracy of fancy gadgets but emotional poverty,” who doesn't distinguish powerful vocal styles because our own voices have been atrophied by using text messaging where we don’t get to interact with others and see for ourselves how awkward a person can be in their body language in daily interactions. Borderlines blurred even more up to the point where “gender is now alleged to be fabricated rather than biological,” all because we seem to embrace poses like “hooking up,” and how Gaga is our role model.

Camille Paglia goes to further extend on how Gaga is the cause of how sex is being “bane” from our technological generation by giving different example of artist Gaga looks up to or she’s being influence by, one of the examples is Madonna. I don’t personally follow neither of them both, but I don’t necessarily live under a rock, I do know that at their own time period they were and is a major influence on our culture, making them role models to look up to and follow. For me both artist have their pros and cons, but the way Paglia attacks Gaga is a bit too excruciating and bias, because it is clear that she does not like Gaga even a tiny bit and uses her as an example of how incredulous we've become that we just accept someone with not a clue what values and morals are, and with technology washing our brains even more to just accept such concepts. 

2. How has the revolution of communication  effected us?

3. Why are borderlines blurrier? 

Eng "A Marketplace of Echoes?" By David Weinberger

After reading for the first time the article all I could think of was that old saying that states the optimist invented the airplane and the pessimist invented the parachute. The article itself goes back and forth on 1. whether the Net has or has not help us be more open minded when we are trying to achieve diversity? Just like the optimist who invented the airplane in order to travel great distances in a short amount of hours instead of days or even weeks like it used to be before, the Net was created to transfer information from one place to another in a short amount of time. But as it revolutionize and it open to many new different windows, ones which you agree with and others not so much, nonetheless it's there whether you choose to approach them or not its you decision. Since you can't have something that good and not have someone who will questioned in one way or another that the "net is making us stupider." As a new "improve" generation where almost everything is literally a click away, diversity is the essence of who we are. We live in an era where if you have on your playlist a certain and only genre you would be consider as abnormal, because now days we seek diversity as much as possible due to the fact that now we release that not everyone is equally the same, and we have minds of our own. We don't need to agree with everyone in fact now days we can voice our opinions. Some are not so great, in fact there are a bunch which are not great at all, some might not be the next Einstein but the fact that we are voicing are opinions is a great way to improve our communities, cultures, etc.
For me it's very surprising that we've been establish in these echo chambers where supposedly diversity is controlled. I ask myself how did this happen? And how I feel about it? I'm not sure I can answer the first question I'm still rapping my head around the fact the at a certain level we've been manipulated and with all the information mention on this article is hard to grasp. As to how I feel about to a certain point I think that I see where there might be concerns with "too much diversity" but the fact that they and we are creating such echo chambers is utterly shocking because where are the people voices who want this a better WORLD. Just a heads up the WORLD is NOT made up of only a certain amount of people who agree with each other, we are made up of different size, shapes, race, ethnicity and most important our own individual way of thinking. No two person are EXACTLY the SAME, not even twins are exactly the same, so why form such echo chambers.

Questions?
How much is "just enoght diversity"?
Is diversity truly scary as they make us belief it is?