Modern communication systems, specifically the internet, is able to capture history and society on many different levels. Documentaries especially, are able to synthesize the development of a society with a particular subject. The documentary, "The most dangerous drug in the world" easily portrays to the audience the way that a society has developed. The documentary arranged the information in an effective way that effectively emphasized the downward slope that methanpehtamine drags a society into by analyzing the development of the economy in Thailand that forces the people and the economy to be dependent on the consumption of meth. Documentaries have the ability to easily portray a large ton of information and synthesize it for a largely visual global audience.
Unfortunately, documentaries, though good in intention, do not really do much to inspire the change the most seek in the global community. Documentaries are able to engage the audience's emotions by making them aware of the problem, but most viewers can walk away from the documentary without any desire to spark that change. Documentaries do not really inspire the ideas of others, but are rather percieved as information to know rather than information to use and apply. This is evident in even the "the most dangerous drug in the world" documentary, because even though it proposes a powerful warning against meth, it wasn't effective enough in seeking a proposal, consequence, or application.
