Wednesday, September 20, 2006

hmm

I have been wondering a lot lately about life and how we associate things. And I believe I have to come to either one of two possible conclusions:

Either popular culture is vastly separating itself from actual life and trying to shape actual life to fit pop culture…

OR…

I have myself disassociated myself from pop culture into my own offshoot of thinking.


Looking at countless poorly made horror movies with predictable plots, remakes regurgitated from the seventies and the eighties, and movies where they discuss important issues like cheerleading or beating someone's butt; I tend to wonder. Does everything have to be grandiose and inane for people to actually think a movie is good? Where are things that people can actually relate to? Is escapism that tempting? ; That we do should nothing except this idea, instead of the actual life of?

Music made to glorify lifestyles that the fans of which could never truly associate to has no real point in life only to perpetuate a cycle where people being influenced by this music creates thinking that success is living a life of excess without any regard for the world around them? Things are sub-cultured so much that rock music isn't even a category anymore, and the classics like jazz and blues are ridiculed by anything that doesn't fit modern categorization.

Since when is having the right cup of coffee, with the brand name digital music player and the aesthetic of being a younger-looking-than-you-are-but-dressing-retro lifestyle have to do with anything of substance unless properly endorsed?

-Maybe that's it: pop culture in general has nothing to do with real life unless a celebrity endorses it.

The reason why I worry about this is that; more and more often, pop culture is becoming the singular influence that is affecting people.

Our ideas of Love and Humanism are shut out unless someone makes a movie about it starring a hot guy with a geeky attitude.

You would think, that with the events of the past 6 years, that we might have some kind of clarity from this, but the rift between those seeking escape from a world so horrifying around them and those who try to fight the good fight of actually seizing on issues to make a difference in this world divides us more and more.

In one example, take how people "love" each other. The idea of love (more recently) is more closely associated with signs of physical affection. Physical affection is a great thing, but not the only factor involved. Physicality, although closely linked to our emotional being, is something that can cause great detriment to others who have a different idea of love (substance and deeper connection) than ones who have this mentality of a physical nature.

You know how "people in love do some crazy things?" Well, what about "people do crazy things that they think are love?"

I could be speaking more from the gut than on rationale here, I could be totally wrong or even speaking a half truth.

Maybe I am just becoming an old grumpy person who thinks that things aren't the diatribe of "the way things were". I hope that's not the case. Your thoughts?

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