Wag The Dog

“Wag The Dog” is a very funny satire with a serious message about the politics & entertainment market.

It was directed by Barry Levinson & screenplay co-written by David Mamet with Hilary Henkin. It cast Robert De Niro,Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, Williae Nelson, Suzie Plakson, Kirsten Dunst & William H. Macey.

It started with a sex scandal of a sitting president with a Firefly Girl just before two weeks of Election Day. So his top aide Winifred (Anne Heche) calls a spin doctor Conred Bream (Robert De Niro). He decided to give the public bigger new then the sex scandal & manufacture a war between United State & Albania co-working with a Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman).

They decided Albania because this name seems evil & no one knows anything about this country. They use slogans, a theme song, merchandised links & sympatric characters. They make big news of it by Television but did not even use any bullets. But public believe it because it was in Television. And at last they succeed.

In this film, the spin doctor is wagging the dog & I must add that, media & public of United State is the DOG. Director & writer both tried their best to provide us the point of view to see political things differently. Each actor put their best in this film & made it more realistic & funny at the same time.

Constructivism

Constructivism is important in every sector learning or knowledge.
Its main idea is that, we learn with the help of our previous knowledge. It divided the learning process in to tow ways.
First one is, we learn everything by being influenced by known things, known situations, known understandings. There is no way that we can learn anything from the beginning.
Second one is, we learn actively. We learn by knowing our previous knowledge & using them as a judge.
It has important role in teaching. Teaching is not the flow of knowledge from enlightened to unenlightened. It means teachers can’t teach any one they can just guide learners they way to the knowledge. Teachers should note the prior knowledge of learners & use different situations for different learners. Teachers can ensure that learners are using then previous knowledge to build the new one. If the knowledge is actively build in present time then teacher must give time to make it strong.
Learning is a constructive process, & we need instruction to learn. So then instructions must come from a trained teacher. Teachers teach us how they are taught.

Words

Objectivity: Judgment which is based on facts, on objective analysis. It is not a personal feeling or opinion.

Subjective: Based on one’s own opinion or feelings rather than facts.

Ontology: The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence.

Epistemological: Related to the philosophical theory of knowledge.

Reality

Reality: To me reality is what I know about something at this very moment.

From my point of view, smoking is bad, & it is important or reality to me. I personally feel this & have some experience of its bad effects from my family members, friends & especially society.

But it is a rare feeling. Many people do smoke, & they have their own excuses to do so. So, what is reality to me is may not be reality to others. And even my own feeling or understanding could be changed in the long run.

Social Construction of reality

Renaissance in a sense means to me the process of changing the cultural thoughts, changing the way in one think. When it happens to some one or to a group of peoples, it causes them to think in a different way, to find out the differences between past & future.

Nicola Machiavelli was an admire of the wind of change of thoughts. He explained why ancient ways of thought can’t be revived.

Edmund Burke admires the Great French Revelation of 1789. But he did not think that to change the whole cultural believes or to start with new believes possible & not even desirable. Because we the peoples are not pure blank. So we must listen our past too.

Doctrinaire Radicalism is the belief where some people want to change every cultural thought from the blank period. This way was first thought by Thatcher.

“A priori” is something logical. That means we need to think logically about thoughts, believes & all.