essay description: In shows such as Westworld and The Walking Dead, the biggest ideas of the human mind are realized

essay description:

In shows such as Westworld and The Walking Dead, the biggest ideas of the human mind are realized. From, a zombie apocalypse, to an amusement park of desires, anything goes. The distribution and marketing of this show add to the augmented human experience. Also, the themes surrounding these shows involve free will, our consciousness, and many other things. Violence has been portrayed in shows before but not like this. With the addition of the television on HBO it creates suspense for every episode.

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Main questions:

What is the Human Experience?

Why do we love to watch doomsday/utopia type shows?

How the themes in Westworld and Walking dead play into it?

Oladimeji Babalola Profressor Olgun COLI-331T 02 August 2021 Babalola 1 How Altered Reality in TV Augments the Human Experience “Human beings, unlike other species, are cursed with a conscious awareness of their own mortality” (Firestone, 2008). This is evident in the everyday things we do for survival. To eat we hunt and breed animals, and to indulge in the food we need money, so we work. We also reproduce to extend our lineage as humans. We go to war to end conflicts or start them. We are the biggest threat and advantage to our existence. Babalola 2 Works Cited Firestone, Robert. “The Human Experience.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-experience/200812/the-human-experience.