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The Influence Of Ideology

When people look at an athlete they think that they have to work for everything while this basketball player gets everything for nothing at all.
             A term that sticks out in my mind that is important is the term consumerism. Ms. Judith Hendry talks about consumerism during one of her lectures, and to me consumerism is the idea of the consumer having wants and needs and their pursuit to get these things. Ms.Hendry has consumerism defined as "our voracious appetite for consumer products." I think this is an important concept for my personal experience because the goal of most people is to get as much stuff as they can while they are alive. And if that wasn't enough to think about, while people are trying to get as much as they can they try to get it for as cheap as they can if not for free. That is why some people want to be in the shoes that I am in. They think that basketball players get everything catered to them, but that is not the case. Athletes work very hard all days of the week most of the year. So it hurts my heart to see and hear people talk about what I do, something that is paying for my way through school, and thinking that everything is catered to me which it is not. .
             Another concept that I think is important that Krishna Kandath was talking about in one of his lectures was the American Dream. He defines the American Dream as "the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort-is the very soul of the American nation. If you asked me for my definition all I would tell you is that it is a house with a white picket fence beautiful wife with two-and-a-half kids. But most people would have a different definition of it. I think that most people's definition of the American dream is the same as the idea as consumerism. Trying to get as much as they can for as little as they can or even nothing at all. I know that it is a little far-fetched but I really do believe that that is most people's idea of the American dream.


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