Red vs. Blue. Black and White?

Hello readers, one and all. Today's post is for the assignment on September 27th. Today I'm going to talk about the poststructural language analysis from Chapter 4. The text We will be looking at is a clip from a popular internet show Red vs. Blue. The premise of the series takes its setting and characters from the Xbox game Halo. The show gives the soldiers fighting in the pointless shoot-em-up game genre their own personal voices and allows them to interact socially.
This clip is from the very first episode of the series. It takes place on the map Bloodgulch which is a completely boxed-in canyon with two bases on either side. One base belongs to the Blue Team and the other to the Red Team. Instead of mindlessly attacking the other team (as it takes place in the game) the soldiers philosophize about why they are there to begin with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1cDTFmpcRI

This clip is an example of two characters discussing the binary difference between the two forces. They are baffeled at the black and white circumstance that they are in. In our language today, we have good vs. bad and right vs. wrong, but many of us haven't got a clue as to what those words mean in applicable circumstances in every day life. They are just words relevant to the circumstance they are placed in. The two soldiers in the clip understand the absurdity of totally opposing lables and have a think about it. For them good and evil are embodied in red or blue. The majority of the time, one immediately sees the striking differences between two things and judges them based upon those differences, like tall and short or fat and thin. What our youth needs to understand is that gray part in the middle that may not be shown in an opposing fashion. They should have conversations like the ones happening in the clip. Asking quewstions is never a bad thing and it never hurts to read in between the lines every now and again.

-TheStevo