American life is so fixated on commercialization, and 'pop culture', It is sad....
Pop culture to me is when you nueter life. Take everything passionate and rich about life, hack it off until you have a bunch corporate, fake, plastic bull s***, and thats 'pop culture'. We Americans are so centralized on 'celebrities' and this idea that the greatest achievement in life is to be on T.V. I'm sick of it all, Nothing in this country is real anymore, It is all just a scheme for corporations to make you work your *** off at work just blow your money on lottery tickets and overpriced, unnecessary, cheap products until you die.
Ok, I will stop going off for now, what do you guys think? Do we need to revolutionize this country into a neo-enlightenment era, and re-allow the presence of philosophy and art and liberty to entitle our culture?
2007-08-14 08:59:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Im not sure this ideal culture I speak of is possible, can a society of humans work without the mass of them being mindless sheep that don't care about actually flourishing in life, and can't see past satisfying simple bodily pleasures and watch the entire season of Grey's Anatomy instead of curing a disease or writing a book?
2007-08-14 09:11:24 · update #1
I think that Swedenborg's doctrine of the New Jerusalem will revolutionize something.
2007-08-14 09:03:05 · answer #1 · answered by Brief Boxer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go rent the movie "The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Nearly 40 years ago that same issue was raised. Notice particularly the comments on "plastic."
Read Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
Go read the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament of the Judeo Christian scriptures.
People have been saying the same thing as you for millenia.
I don't know where you hang out, but there are a lot of enlightened people out there. Those are the people with whom I choose to associate most of the time.
Turn off the TV and go to the library instead. Learn to meditate. Volunteer to make the world a better place. Join a group of like minded people. Stay out of Wal-Mart. Want to change the world? Stop complaining and do something. Be the change you wish to see. Namaste.
2007-08-14 16:09:10 · answer #2 · answered by Linda R 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You may have found some common ground. You can only choose for yourself and no one else. Don't buy in to the commercialization. I don't, and I find my life to be a very enriching experience at times. Your perspective is pretty dismal to say that nothing in this country is real anymore. I think you are hanging out with the wrong people. You can choose not spend your cash on unnecessary, cheap, overpriced products. Save your money instead. Don't let them get the best of you. They can treat you like an ignorant follower but you don't have to act like one.
2007-08-15 00:22:08 · answer #3 · answered by brad 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a problem with pop culture. I think it has its place. Sure, aspects of it may be shallow, but it also helps make life a little more fun at times. I don't have a problem with the occasional bit of mindless entertainment. And pop culture is almost always deeper than it seems on the surface. It reveals a great deal about a culture psychologically and sociologically. Look at the 1920s, the 1960s, or any other era with a strong popular culture, and you can tell a great deal about the society of that time. And in every case, you'll also find contemporaries who kept saying that the popular culture of their time was shallow, and was basically ushering in the decline and fall of civilization. But mankind has survived the various fads and popular cultures of many, many centuries of human existence.
2007-08-14 16:07:54 · answer #4 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only major irony to this is that in 50 years, you will be searching all over Ebay for collectibles that remind you of this grand era.
Look at how the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s are being remembered with such fondness now. Those times were not much different than our own to those that lived through them.
Popular Culture is what defines a generation. If you wish to re-define this generation for yourself...
...do something people will want to remember.
2007-08-14 16:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by wrdsmth495 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It already does ...it is the press that idolizes the pop star crackpots who don't have the sense to come in out of the rain or wear underwear under a short skirt
2007-08-14 16:08:47 · answer #6 · answered by ccseg2006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you for the most part, but don't turn yourself into a culture snob. Pop music is popular because it's entertaining. Tourist traps are popular because they are interesting. You don't want to get to the point where you have to convince yourself you like something alternative just to avoid pop culture. The Grand Canyon is a crowded, cliched vacation spot, but that doesn't mean it ain't awe-inspiring to see.
2007-08-14 16:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pop culture, Hey grandpa! I think that happened half a century ago, wake up! this is Bush dark age we are living trough!
2007-08-14 16:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by sea link2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say that 95% of the pop culture of America is degenerate, and vulgar. The re-creation of the earth, as spoken of in The Revelation of Jesus Christ, will eliminate that 95%. Also targeted is the crooked crescent and all those who practice idol worship and follow false prophets and Gods.
2007-08-14 16:08:12 · answer #9 · answered by Son of David 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i know its horrible, i mean we praise and glorify drugs, alchohol, sex, violence, all because a few people in hollywood have all the attention and when they do it its ok. society can't take anything at face value anymore, it has to be spruced up and sprinkled on for it to go anywhere but by then the message is far lost.
2007-08-14 16:07:37 · answer #10 · answered by Ryan, Atheati Magus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋