SWA8

Post Secret
The Post Secret Card I chose to analyze is the one that reads “I am a well respected spiritual medium. I have never seen or spoken to a ghost in my life. Neither have the other ‘mediums’ I’ve met. We’re all liars!” This one intrigued me the most because it was something that not only told a secret about the author, but also people in the same profession as the author. The text is obviously the message in the card. The explicit claim is that all mediums are liars. The implicit claim is possibly that Ouija boards are also scams, as that is the picture in the background of this Post Secret Card. The author is a medium, which is explicitly stated. This lends credibility to the statement, because a medium is the only one that can truly tell you whether or not a medium is a liar. The audience for this card is the same as the audience for anyone on this site, and that is anyone that visits this site. This is apparent based simply on the purpose of the site, which is to vent. The visual component of this card just displays an Ouija board, which I suppose is a method that mediums use when speaking with ghosts. This is just one example of how mediums are liars.