All over the place, from the popular culture to propaganda system, there is a constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is ratify and consume. –Noam Chomsky
Pop culture is a universal language, which commands a seemly superficial prestige to make the masses fantasise, smile and to connect us across racial, political and social divides. It is piece of our fabric in mankind. Furthermore, we are brainwashed into having admiration for it, acclaim it and absorb from the betterment of it. This will provide for the preservation of pop culture – the popular paradigm illusion.
The components that we acquire in daily pop culture are fundamental values, norms, and symbols. We relatively feed this distinguishment by our competiveness, ideologies, individualism – this is detrimental to the contemporary cultural climate. I render that we should develop this matrix for the betterment of mankind. This rendered portrayal of pop culture will provide an eradication of ignorant traits. However, we have to become self aware of the production of our viral connectivity. This community is damaging and it promotes depression. Eliminating the widespread acclaim of current pop culture out of my persona has become quite strenuous. Today’s media is immediate and partaking in the contemporary trends is merely not an option, but I do consider it an illusion. The fantasy of this mediation is spread out immediately at the same time. This is the competition – songs, movies, literature, video games, and TV shows – basically anything that has mainstream values that gives us the perception of fame. Pop culture is the reflection of mainstream society. We enhance all the current ideologies and in return our civilisation has this universal cultural acceptance. This then assembles our social reality to make individuals feel popular towards the masses; this is the fabrication we are exposed to on social media platforms. I perceive it’s the fake consciousness that is created by the elite. They strive to be more superior to each other and they propel the same traits on us. This is designed to keep the masses unaware and ignorant, to distract us from the wealth and power of the world. In result we obey the law and follow the powerful entities of mankind. This feeds us with fake persona’s that they create of phoney programs like soap operas or scandals in the celebrity world. Furthermore I feel it’s a massive misstep in our evolution; it is unoriginal and has low standard. We should deny this cultural norm and disregard it from our existence, but unfortunately, I provide it’s a distant aspiration.
The prevailing ubiquitous culture that we call pop is vast and has been moving at immense speed over the past decade. Social network platforms has taken over civilisation on a pandemic scale. Connectivity continues to inspire man, whereas previously it was not as prevalent. However, it is a fragment of our programming, it’s the essence of daily routines we regrettably cannot deny or eliminate.
In addition, some monotonous alterations in the past decade has adjusted humanities prominence world. Let’s put them into perspective – Music in 2005 Britany Spears was a Grammy winner, currently non-existent. In the celeb world in 2005 Kim Kardashian barely existed, now… well you already know the answer. Finally, in the movies, Star Wars was the dominating feature in 2005 and it was majorly dominate in 2015. Whereby the rise of Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter transcend across mankind.
I accept that I have acquired subjective biased and personal views of the global pop cultural spheres essence, yet my compassion for the masses provides me with the aspiration that we can achieve pandemic widespread emancipation from this destructive cultural norm.
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