How do you perceive your popular culture? What does popular culture consist of in your world? Music? TV? The Web? Fashion? What attracted you to this particular section of popular culture? Why do you like it? How do you understand its history? Please end your blog with at least one good critical question.
I perceive my popular culture as lively, fast paced, cutthroat, and materialistic. Music from previous decades expressed needs of love, clarity and compassion. The music of my generation is about showing off material items, bragging about how many women or men people have slept with, whining about how hard life is, and screaming about how depressed people are. As an oppressed society women are expected to be thin, have big boobs, big hips, big lip, a tiny waist and straight hair dressed in designer clothes with a Gucci bag on the shoulder. Men are expected to be tall, dressed to look like that have money and to show off any material possession they have. As time goes on, our generation is changing a bit from the gender roles our parents had and still follow, if you've got parents like mine. Our means of communication with the help of technology have rapidly expanded and now it's illegal to talk on the phonw while driving your BMW you're leasing. Heaven forbid someone can't get ahold of you for 15 minutes. As technology makes progress by means of mass communication, personable communication is becoming more awkard and less acceptable. Person to person conversations are a thing of the past and communication is inturn becoming less personable, making us less connected. All kinds of information is being accessed from the internet and it easier now than ever to cheat through things and to steal people's idenity and ruin people's lives. Technology has ruined our lives.
In the world I live in if you don't drive a mercedes, bmw, or range rover, you or you're parents are not up to par. If you don't wear true religion jeans and carry a marc jacobs bag then you have no class. If you don't wear a pound of makeup and straighten your hair, then you are ugly. I was raised with hippie parents and raised not to give into society, but being schooled in a private school, I was taught to be quite the opposite. I've been so confused my whole life as to what I really want out of life. I'm not sure if I want to make a bunch of money and have a lot of things or if I want to make a decent amount and enjoy all the small things. I guess that decision comes to you as you grow and mature, but I feel very pressured to work my ass off to give all my money back to the man. So now more than ever I feel so torn. Do I work hard to become successful in the eyes of society or do I work hard to enjoy life and take it easy?
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