do movies/books/music/etc have an effect on your daily life?
taythegibs
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My question to you is do you think that movies/books/music/etc have an effect on your daily life? I have been crazy irritable today, and it took me hours to realize that before i went to sleep last night and for a little while today ive been reading a book that has had me on edge. Because of the book I have not had a productive day at all today. Anybody else?
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Well, affect what I am doing or how I am feeling?
Everything affects what we are doing. But I don't allow things to bother me.
If I did, books, TV and movies would be the least of the things that would affect me that way.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
To make matters more difficult, though, affect is also a noun in psychology, and it means your overall mood. So something can have an effect on your affect, or even affect your affect.
And to answer the original question, most definitely.
Here's the short list:
The New Testament
The Rise & Fall of The Third Reich; William Shirer
The Genealogy of Morality; Friedrich Nietzche
Mere Christianity; C S Lewis
Atlas Shrugged; Ayan Rand
Principles of Biology; Herbert Spencer
No Exit; Jean Paul Sartre
Ten Days that Shook the World; Jack Reed
It Can't Happen Here, Babbitt, Main St.; Sinclair Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath; Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
The Music of:
Woodie Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon
The book itself is as dry as the Sonora desert, but some of the ideas I found there were shattering, and fundamentally altered my view of economics.
It doesn't really effect my life as to ruin my day, but I have had whole conversations with people by not having an original thought/word come out of my mouth.
A simple "Wrong" would have done just fine...
Got any good sasparilla?
On a related note, I can relate virtually every thing that happens in my life to a Seinfeld episode. I have had entire conversations with people doing nothing but quoting or referencing Seinfeld episodes.
Books, movies, TV shows, news articles, etc. all play a role in shaping my (and everyone's) values, ideas, and opinions which define who we are.
Whether for better or worse, everything we experience has an effect on us - it's just to what extent it affects us.
(Tried to use affect/effect as best as I could. Still not entirely sure how to use the two words but I usually refer to this comic, from the oatmeal, when in doubt.)
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