Angelique Mendoza(Edison)

The Private Eye

Nowadays, it is almost impossible to search the internet without feeling like there’s an unseen eye monitoring your every move. Before throwing anything away, documents must go through the ritual of shredded into millions of pieces in an effort to protect privacy. Television shows have become reflective mirrors allowing an individual’s nudity to be completely exposed. “What has society settled for? Have we lost all moral sense and consciousness that being nosy has become much more interesting? It is evident that society has faced a paradigm shift from privacy to exposure. Such a shift changes not only the nature of an individual but also the social norm. With a constant eye perusing every aspect of your life, people may be obliged to feel that their troubles cannot be overcome without the scrutiny and societal judgment. This scenario is especially true for Hollywood. What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood; in other milieu, they move vicariously and remain spectators.  

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