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Pop culture. Who drives it? Who decides what we will decide on?
The more I look at culture the more I see how it is driven by the ad people of large corporations that will stop at nothing to redefine our culture and control the minds of children (and adults) if only to sell more.
What could be more exemplary of this than the current hip-hop music? Once a very authentic form of folk music untainted by the moguls is now the golden goose for many rich white men that view the art as nothing more than a product. Now this music has become it's own cliche' and a mere husk of it's origins.
In fact, it is the antithesis of what is once was. What is viewed as a form of rebellion and form of "self expression" by young people is no more than a well marketed fad. Would many young people have any concept of who they were as a human being if it were not for the sense of pseudo-individualism that the minds at MTV have spoon fed them? I watch and buy therefore I am.
Have we shortchanged the schools to the point where they were forced to solicit the fast food companies? The proliferation of fatty foods in our schools and otherwise marketed to children is unlike any other crisis we have seen in the world. Obesity in children is such a problem that some studies predict that their future health issues will result in a shortening of the average live span of Americans! Not only will this be the first predicted drop in the average life span in over 100 years it also is a harbinger of the rising costs of health care that the tax payers will have to pick-up. I can only imagine the effect that the rising numbers of heart and diabetes patients will have on our health care system. In that event the higher insurance premiums are sure to come.
More about all this later....
The more I look at culture the more I see how it is driven by the ad people of large corporations that will stop at nothing to redefine our culture and control the minds of children (and adults) if only to sell more.
What could be more exemplary of this than the current hip-hop music? Once a very authentic form of folk music untainted by the moguls is now the golden goose for many rich white men that view the art as nothing more than a product. Now this music has become it's own cliche' and a mere husk of it's origins.
In fact, it is the antithesis of what is once was. What is viewed as a form of rebellion and form of "self expression" by young people is no more than a well marketed fad. Would many young people have any concept of who they were as a human being if it were not for the sense of pseudo-individualism that the minds at MTV have spoon fed them? I watch and buy therefore I am.
Have we shortchanged the schools to the point where they were forced to solicit the fast food companies? The proliferation of fatty foods in our schools and otherwise marketed to children is unlike any other crisis we have seen in the world. Obesity in children is such a problem that some studies predict that their future health issues will result in a shortening of the average live span of Americans! Not only will this be the first predicted drop in the average life span in over 100 years it also is a harbinger of the rising costs of health care that the tax payers will have to pick-up. I can only imagine the effect that the rising numbers of heart and diabetes patients will have on our health care system. In that event the higher insurance premiums are sure to come.
More about all this later....
posted by Cool Water William @ 8:35 PM
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