Dialect of Enlightenment - review

The book 'Dialect of Enlightenment' talks about how media and the world of cinema has made us all lose our point of views, thoughts and creativity forcing us to adapt ways and thoughts of what it decides to guide us. We as humans have all started following the same road as one another where no one is different or left unique. The trend of following one another is increasing day by day and all this is because of the media.

As the essay mentions, Kant believed that the state of enlightenment would grant us answers to all the questions we long and longed to ask, whose answers lay with our ancestors and the other masterminds. However the writers argue that this enlightenment is what we are not learning ourselves but is what we are being taught by the growing culture of media and film. Cinema shows us all the films where there are the same list of characters and roles that every other film has. It is as though the pattern has been set and we humans have to follow that pattern as our own thinking has shut down. 

The culture of media around us has taken us over completely leaving us with no room in terms of creativity and reasoning. We now follow the ideals left to us by media refusing to actually think what we are doing and why. It is as though this is the right thing to do since we feel that this is enlightenment. 

The society that we live in and the facts that we see that exist in them are all what we accept, also we see every other person doing the same thing in the society thus making it the right thing for us to do. The influence of media has clutched us all tightly in its claws where everyone is tied up together leaving no room for becoming different and making a change. It feels like every person has lost his individuality and identity and everyone is following the same track and moving to the same direction without thinking or realizing the fact that each and every human being is different from each other and should hav different ideas, approaches and point of views.