Artifact

What I got out of reading the articles is a couple of things.  One thing that I understood was the idea that there are things out there that aren’t usable to everyone.  These artifacts represent power or may have power over a society.  These artifacts typically tend to be unattainable to some others.  Take for example a Hummer H2.  Derived from the Hummer, which was meant designed for the US government as an all terrain kind of vehicle and then made into a modern SUV in the H2.

 What does one think when they see someone with a hummer? What does it represent?  I believe a hummer inadverently communicates many things, ecspecially with gas prices the way they are now.  First off, a hummer is seen as a status symbol for people with wealth.  It retails for about 53,000 which is relatively expensive but it only gets 13 miles to the gallon making it a more expensive vehicle.  Its design intent is for offroading but one can see many famous people ecspecially rapppers and male athletes casually driving in them or in the car garages (just look at MTV cribs).  By buying a Hummer just to casually drive around seemingly communicates that they don’t care about gas prices.  If you’re not offroading why not use a van if you need alot of seating?  If one lives out in the country and needs a heavy duty vehichle to help on a farm is 53,000 an affordable price? I suppose it depends on the size of the farm but in most cases I doubt it.  Buy driving a hummer Class is much represented in a H2.