Thats Not A Protest Its A Cry for Help



“Their young they may not realize it yet. They got the same raging hormones the same, self destructive desire to get boldly trashed and wildly out of control. Look out that window. That’s not a protest that is a cry for help. Their begging us please have a party, feed us drinks, get us laid.”

I believe this scene in the movie is a genetic fallacy. He is saying that because those college students are protesting they are really just like every other student on campus. They are not really protesting just crying out for help. What he says in the quote above is degrading most college students at PCU. Comparing the protest to hormone raging teens are not inherently related.

Chris a Transcendentalists?????

Christopher McCandless was a very intellectual individual. According to society he was different from the normal. He was an idealist whose ideals did not mesh with the modern life. This is what caused him to go on his excursions in the wild. If one is to think back we could compare Chris to transcendentalists. They are people that live their life as one with nature and to have inner peace. They did not interact with “normal” people just amongst themselves. With the comparison of these two show that this why Chris’s story was so controversial. His life did not match the stereotype of college students usually perceived. Chris had good and bad qualities about himself. Yes he was smart and an intellectual yet he was impatient and self absorbing. While he was in college he pulled himself away from everyone else because most of his friends were into fraternities and sororities and was not with that. Even Chris’s mother said she could not understand why he took chances like that with his life. I believe that Chris was born with a different route of thinking. As he grew these qualities in him became stronger and stronger. He was more intelligent those around him and more into the free life with no strings attached. Even in high school as the cross country team Captain Chris would tell his teammates to think about all the evil and hatred in the world and imagine themselves running against the forces of darkness. As high school students his teammates were blown away by that kind of talk. After Chris graduated from Emory University he felt the time to be free and not have to worry about other worldly things. Even though he received a degree he did not put it to use. I believe if he had a choice of going to college or not he would not have gone because Chris was into achieving things in life without the things we think we have to have in order to live, things that are truly of no value. When Chris went on his escapades he burned all of his money, left all of his clothes and other tools. Chris felt the need to live amongst the homeless, pimps, and hookers just find out why they was doing what they was doing and would try to help them get out of there situation. I also believe that Chris was not afraid to be alone unlike so many of us in the world today. He was not afraid to die because in the end he got what he wanted and he was at peace with it. His mother may have not understood that but his sister did. Before he died there was a piece of paper that he wrote on and it said,

“Death’s a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made

Something more equal to the centuries

Than muscle and bone is mostly to shed weakness.”
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all.”

Benningtons Tactics

At first glance of this picture I said to myself what in the world does this picture has to do with a clothing line and why would Bennington campaign this picture to sell clothes. Then I thought maybe Bennington is using this picture to get money for an aids charity but come to find out that was not the case but Bennington was giving money to a charity just for using the picture. Then I thought that this picture is very controversial and maybe that was a way to catch the buyers’ attention and from there Bennington could sell there clothe. Yet using this tactic would cause them to lose business also. What I must do is read between the lines. Again I thought to myself how I would use this picture to my advantage to sell clothing. I can get the consumers thinking hey if Bennington is trying to aid aids ridden people then it would be a good cause to buy there clothing and from there proceeds will go to charity. That way it makes the buyer feel good about doing a good deed. This picture does appeal to customers because it gets them to thinking about how this picture relates to buying clothing. It proposes many arguments within its self. That is why this photo for a clothing line was very controversial. This picture may also help some people with aids or people that have family members with aids or close friends to cope with society. Truly it kind of gives them hope that society will begin to accept them for who they are and not what they have. It also shows them that yes we might have aids but we can be representatives of other things rather than I am an aids patient and I’m trying to survive. I believe this picture shows more positive than negative. When this picture first came out it was around the same time when they revealed that people were getting aids other ways and not just from being gay, using needles, or being very promiscuous. Bennington is showing us that just because people have aids does not mean that we should not embrace them and buy them Bennington clothing. I believe that this picture really had nothing to do with aids patients at all but just a way for Bennington to increase there profits. So they used this make people feel sorry for aids ridden people and that caused a guilt trip which will make people want to help so they would buy there clothing and Bennington would make profit very easy with no intention of really helping the “community”. They thought this plan through very well and I believe that it worked. To prove this throughout that year Bennington produced more controversial photos to increase there profits. It was also a way to show that they were very versatile and was not afraid to show it. That wanted to include everyone and leave no out. Bennington made an appeal to the customers and it worked.