Hyperreality

Hyperreality has greatly affected America's view and expectations of love and relationships. First of all, hyperreality "characterizes the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy," (Wikipedia). The two ideas of love and relationships in America have been depicted as something free and having a "happy ending" and no boundaries in today's media. This perception has blurred the reality of these subjects and brought Americans to believe that they can achieve these hyperrealities of a paradise of love and relationships. A good example of a hyperreality is "a magazine photo of a model that has been touched up with a computer," (Wikipedia). The magazine picture shows the hyperreality of a flawless model, where in reality she had some blemishes when the photo was taken. The same goes for love and relationships. The media makes them or their endings look flawlessly achievable, but in reality it can be very difficult to achieve such goals. Hyperreality has hypnotized the American mind into believing that love is free and that relationships can have inexplicable happy endings.