Expanded enema. Week 2

 From what I could understand  in the reading I belive that both articles coincide with one another. Youngblood offers a theory and critic on the direction society is heading towards (what I gathered from his overall overview of his book) and Vanderbeek offers a solution of sorts.In my theory I attempted to combine the two because Vanderbeek speaks of Expanded cinema as a use of communication and Youngbood speaks of cinema as a way to expand our consciousness and how can we expand our minds without communication. Vanderbeek explains that we have lost emotional comprehension of technology and the cultural intercom will be an emotional experience moving art and life closer. This coincides with Youngbloods theory that we will reach a point  in our evolution when the concept of reality will no longer exist because i feel If we were to learn via Vanderbeeks culture intercom our concept of reality will diminished because one,when that sort of technology arises it will be used against us and two, we are learning about our lives via images and sounds. Dont get me wrong, images and sounds are a vary intrinsic part of our modern life and like Youngblood said cinema is  in fact our lives but my concern with this idea of a picture languge and constently being subjected to them how the governments will use this as a tool to  control the masses. Instead of seeing a Practical Utopian or a society where artists will deal with the world as a work of art, all i envision  is a brainwashed dystopian future similar to THX1138 but instead of pills, people are being controlled by images and every form of creativity is banned. (here is see Alex from a clock work orange with his eyes forced open) Of course though in our current state of living we are already brianwashed by television images and both authors are theorizing how in fact we can create art in a capitalist society that kills creativity. Both authors speak of  how technology will evolve art and realized in their current time that people were disconnected from cinema. Their theory's predated the internet and living in the future with the sort of advanced technology they were getting at we are still all very disconnected from cinema. I fell like in the reading they were preoccupied on how the artist will advance with technology which is true but there is still creative room for the artist to not be on the forefront of technology.
-Alli