9/15 Unavoidable Media Influence

 through today's class, we discussed about creating a country from scratch. Our team decided in implementing geniocracy as our base system. The original plan was to create a whole generation whereas everyone is equal in each content. After creating 30 generations of such, a intelligence test regarding knowledge and character tests would be enforced for everyone in order to decide the most "intelligent" person suitable for the countries leader. However, as the discussion accelerated we noticed how numerous flaws occurs in this system. For instance, who would be the leader until the first generation reaches 30?. Is the intelligence test truly effective?, and much more. Despite the fact that I have always possessed slight dissatisfactions towards the govern system, today’s discussion lead to considering how difficult it is to govern/create a country. 

One of the biggest notices through the discussion was, "whether which system we decide on, media would effect each individual." In order to create an equal generation, we assumed that for the 30 generations, everyone would be able to attend to school for free. However, based on which school/teacher they decide on, the students would automatically be influenced by the teachers; who are influenced by the media that they see. Even more, even "us" who are discussing how to make our country, is somehow biased by what we have seen in the media, and who we have involved with. I notice that perhaps it would be almost impossible to create a completely "un-biased" country. Such notices lead me to acknowledging how the media truly has an unavoidable effect towards our lives. In addition, I realized how important it is to attain the skill to prevent ourselves from being influenced by a certain media.