Trademark

As I continue reading “Everything Bad Is Good For You”, Johnson keeps on surprising me on his arguments as to why my generation’s pop culture is so amazing. I thought that it was going to become repetitive, but I was wrong. He makes me think about what is going around in my generation, and how valuable some of those things are to my life, without me even realizing.

I just finished the chapter on “Film” and it was interesting how Johnson says that we also do cognitive work while watching films, even children films like Finding Nemo. When one is watching Finding Nemo one “has to keep track of almost twenty unique personalities….. as well as the different story arcs…and where the child’s mind is concerned he’s just watching a movie, but each viewing is training him or her to hold those multiple trends in consciousness, a kind of mental calisthenics.” (130)

This proves why when I leave the movie theater after watching a suspense movie, or an action movie, I always end up with a head ache because my mind was literally going around in circles. I was trying to find out who killed who, or who really is the bad guy. As I get older the type of movies I can watch start getting more complicated and analytical, but I am able to watch them because I have been “trained” with the easy movies, such as Finding Nemo.

I wonder which are the movies that are going to transend into the future. Just like we study Shakespears plays, people 300 years from now could be studying movies instead of books. Are there any hidden movies that one day are going to become trademarks of our time? 

Visual Vocabulary:

Psychometrics:

the science of measuring mental capacities and processes 

Fynn Effect:

The substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day.