Flusser speaks about the dilemma of the modern man. He seems to think that the average man hesitates to ask the questions that would help him better and clearly define the world around him. I agreed with this standpoint. It seems that we, as a society, are wonderstruck by the glitters that we see online and on TV: Kim Kardashian, Instagram, Snapchat, or even trap music all loudly insinuate, “Look at my wonderful life!”, and many Americans channel their mind into these indulgences instead of looking past that and asking the bigger questions about life and the world we live in. I think that is unfortunate.

          However, when Flusser starts talking about the theory of color and black and white, he lost me for a bit. Black and white supposedly is only a theory and doesn’t really exist, but black and white photos exist. That idea in its entirety had my head going into overdrive, but as he continued to explain that the idea that many things that seem stark are not and that there are nuances and areas of uncertainty I began to understand a bit more. No person is completely a good nor bad in the same likeness that left and right are not definite but based on perspective. This reading makes me want to be more engaged and active in thinking from a third person perspective of what maybe be really happening in our world and not the latest crazes.

I started asking myself questions and thought about light. It’s amazing to think that without light there is no such thing as color. Then is started thinking about photography and how the camera is able to arrest these values of light in an image. The photographer is able to frame a scene from a set perspective and broadcast it to his viewers using his creativity and astonishment for his environment. The photographer creates a setting that is made up of many elements that composes the photo and gives it meaning using this play on light. A skilled photographer may have a message that has more value and morality than “look at my wonderful life”, but the blissfully ignorant man ignores this message.