Analysis: Liking Is For Cowards
People all around the word are spending more time on social Medias and less time in the real word. The question is, do modern technology really harm us? Moreover, are we losing a lot of important material when we decide to hide us behind our screens and use a mouse as our representative? These are some of the central and important questions that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay ‘’ Liking is for Cowards. Go for what hurts’’ from 2011.
The author is a 51-years-old man who puts our daily internet habits into perspective and makes us think critically about what happens to us while we are online. Jonathan Franzen start to hits around the bush for a while before he present the real message. He starts out involving a personal involvement …show more content…
Jonathan Franzen does also use familiar expressions for example ‘’ and having’’, ‘’trust issues’’ and ‘’ accountability issues’’. By doing this, he makes sure to hold onto with potential young readers who certainly will find the comparison entertaining. He also chooses to associate the world of technology with the natural world. When he is talking about the love, he talks of the love as is was the opponent of techno consumerism (67) then he explains how modern media, in his perspective, commodifies love in a disgusting way through commercials on …show more content…
One thing is clear in this essay, which is ‘’the creation of liking is a lie’’ it’s a world of lying, the modern generation are too busy creating a new side of themselves, for the reason that they fear the absence of acknowledgment from others. If the person lower his or her guard in the modern world, even a little, letting the real life knowledges come to the person, he or she might end up with a good result. Most of all it is about love, because love is not what we do or see through our smartphones or on the internet. One the internet everything is a frisk-free. Liking something is far from the same as loving someone or something. When the individual try to put him or herself out there, in the real word, they start to take a great risk of being hurt badly. On the other side, if the individual refrain from doing so, then they are not living at all. This essay shout to a generation, that should be remind that not everything can be found
The author is a 51-years-old man who puts our daily internet habits into perspective and makes us think critically about what happens to us while we are online. Jonathan Franzen start to hits around the bush for a while before he present the real message. He starts out involving a personal involvement …show more content…
Jonathan Franzen does also use familiar expressions for example ‘’ and having’’, ‘’trust issues’’ and ‘’ accountability issues’’. By doing this, he makes sure to hold onto with potential young readers who certainly will find the comparison entertaining. He also chooses to associate the world of technology with the natural world. When he is talking about the love, he talks of the love as is was the opponent of techno consumerism (67) then he explains how modern media, in his perspective, commodifies love in a disgusting way through commercials on …show more content…
One thing is clear in this essay, which is ‘’the creation of liking is a lie’’ it’s a world of lying, the modern generation are too busy creating a new side of themselves, for the reason that they fear the absence of acknowledgment from others. If the person lower his or her guard in the modern world, even a little, letting the real life knowledges come to the person, he or she might end up with a good result. Most of all it is about love, because love is not what we do or see through our smartphones or on the internet. One the internet everything is a frisk-free. Liking something is far from the same as loving someone or something. When the individual try to put him or herself out there, in the real word, they start to take a great risk of being hurt badly. On the other side, if the individual refrain from doing so, then they are not living at all. This essay shout to a generation, that should be remind that not everything can be found