Summary Response to "The Road To Unreality" by Mark Slouka

Reality of Unreality
In Mark Slouka’s essay, “The Road To Unreality” society is a “growing separation from reality.” Slouka claims that we are “increasingly removed from experience, over-dependent on the representations of reality that come to us through television and the print media,” because of that, we seem “more willing to put our trust in intermediaries who “re-present” the world to us.”
An example used to make his point was while questioning a neighbor as to whether she believed the accused murders story, their response “I don’t know, I’m dying for the movie to come out, so I can see how it ends.” Was like many responses you would get from anyone in today’s society. Today’s society use television and/or newspapers to get the answers that will satisfy them. Without television the knowledge of the world events would be limited.
Slouka, in his essay, claims daily life before 1900 was “not that different from what it had been ...