world changing response 2

“Do it yourself” has become a very well know term that we often use in our society today. This new idea of doing things on our own has not only influenced products that can be made by the common individual, but it has affected our media, and how we interact with our environment as well. Nowadays people enjoy personalizing their own products, and making them unique to themselves as individuals, making it impossible for others to own the same items. Maybe this new phenomena of making our own products has to do with the satisfaction of doing something on our own. It gives people the opportunity to feel like they too can be creative individuals, even if that is not how they normally perceive themselves. A question that I came up with while reading this text has to do with alternative reasoning for this new fetish with “do it yourself” projects.

It boggles my mind that a book that was published so recently about the changing world in the twenty-first century, contains absolutely no mention of how the falling economy may have something to do with it. We are currently facing a recession, and people everywhere are looking for ways to cut costs, and save money. This may in fact have a great impact on why we are now “doing things ourselves”, instead of giving into the way of life we have previously been so accustomed to living; paying for things that we could do just as easily by ourselves. My dad always has a comment about the clothing I buy and then bring home. He simply does not understand the reasoning behind buying a pair of jeans for close to two hundred dollars, that come with holes and rips in them already. Little does he know, they are designer jeans, and are meant to look like that. I believe that my dad would be much more understanding of the concept of wearing ”distressed clothing” if I were to take an old pair of jeans that I already owned and personally distressed them, for the low low cost of nothing.