Johnson Summary, Analysis, and Connections (Essay Sample)

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Johnson Summary, Analysis, and Connections
Summary 
Steven Johnson in his writing defies what the current tradition and culture teaches us; that television is not right and thus, people should avoid watching the television shows. He explains that shows such as the Bones and 24 are crucial for the young generation to view. Johnson kicks off by saying that a story about his sleeper curve that he asserts that everything that people think is not good for them is good for them. In a lot of technical attributes, most of the parents often do not allow their kids to watch the shows in question because they think are not good for them. Most of the parents say that such shows usually teach the children to do terrible things that in a real sense the shows teach the children the essentials of life as the author would put it (Johnson p. 279). If the parents do not let their young ones grow up and gain knowledge in a manner that they are not bad at, then the children will never grow up at all. The author employs a lot of facts as well as examples to back up his claims and to aid the reader to understand better what he is attempting to put forth.
Johnson defies the notions that the television was made to control and dumb the people down and thus make them heavily defendant on that kind of technology. He instead says that the television in the world of today fosters the intellect of people, and thus it exercises the mind of individuals making them be intelligent. He asserts that while people watch the shows and drama, they learn to think critically and thus become able to analyze the situations and the environments. However, the author does not say that every show on the television is beneficial (Johnson p. 274). He says that there are some kinds of entertainments that are very explicit in more than one way.
Analysis
The author employs the writings that are happy go lucky and technical. Although the author has published several pieces, this piece was a mind grabber. He is a writer who is greatly credited and he has all the essentials. He uses the sleeper curve to illustrate information and studies to show that children who are part of watching the shows on television together with their parents had always had the mental capacities to grow intellectually. He concludes the excerpt by eventually developing his argument (Graff & Cathy p. 75). He says that what he is arguing for is an alteration in the criteria that people usually use to find out what the real junk food of for cognition is and what is actually nourishing.
The argument poses a change in how people rate the television. The author says that despite the fact that the shows such as24 and Sorpanos exhibit the obscenity and violence acts, they are consequently essential in the development of the brains that the plots that lack obscenity and violence.
Connection
The piece of Johnson has a substantial point to put across because it got a reason with both actuality and facts. As such, the excerpt has made me a deeper and critical thinker on the subjects of the televisions and how the TV shows can make someone smarter. The passage has put forth several lessons such as the essence of focusing and following the plot, which is a very nice way of exercising the brains. When the brain tries to fill in the data that is missing, it connects multiple threads of narratives (Schlatter p. 82). As such, I can personally relate to the excerpt by defying the common assumptions that watching television is bad. I now understand that it is indeed not bad, and hence I agree with the author. Therefore instead of the monitoring the things that children usually watch or people watch based on violence and obscenity, people need to take a look at the narrative development of the program of a TV show.
 
Works Cited
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. "They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing : With Readings. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Print.
Johnson, Steven. Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. 2nd ed. New York: Riverhead, 2013. Print.
Schlatter, Feisal. "Steven Johnson Says Watching TV Makes You Smarter." Kottke. Dark Horse, 2014. Web. 11 July 2015.