Originally my title was going to be a play off of Material Girl by Madonna but the title was going to be too long if I did that.
Living in a postmodern world is all I have known, I think. There are no clear guidelines on when postmodernism began where it ends. Actually from the knowledge I've acquired from class and internet searches have left me with the conclusion that postmodernism may not even exist. The one thing consistent within my research on postmodernism is that skepticism of what is and isn't real or true is a recurring theme.
It's either the postmodernism or being a teenager that has made me cynical. In part, I believe it's postmodernism. The constant gauging of what is and isn't true has made me a cynic. The constant flow of advertisement forced feed to me through television, websites, apps, and the traditional print ads has driven me insane. Like those ads I see all the time that offer things like "free credit report." and the ads about some "miracle weight loss formula." I don't really think anyone believes those. Its hard to ever imagine a time when anyone saw these outrages advertisements about how much money a company can make you, or how much weight you can lose "FOR ONLY $20!" The loud prices and glowing "real customer" reviews has made me feel quite cynical. In the process of determining what is and isn't true in a postmodern world, I have come to assume everything is a lie in some way.
People aren't exempt from the cynic in the me. In the postmodern world, we are constantly trying to uncover the truths in each other. The differences between the girl you have a class with and the same girl that is your friend on facebook are numerous. There is such a vast difference between a person and their online persona. It's crazy how often you sit beside the nice conservative girl in school but on twitter she talks about crazy parties and fights she's going to get into. I do acknowledge that most of the vast differences are because you do not know the person very well and their online personas. There are just a lot of different versions of people in general so that no one really knows what is real. Is the person you see at church, the same person at school, or at home, or even with themselves? I have come to believe just about every person I meet is fake in some way. This is not really a wrong assumption especially being in high school but it is also effect of postmodernism has on my peers.
So I guess to some extent, on only one characteristic, postmodernism (or living in this postmodern world) has made me somewhat cynical.
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