In the desire to be liked, some people forget what they like.
I do.
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One is missing a lot, a whole lot, if one sees, hears, feels, touches---in short, is immersed and steeped in--nothing but Western popular culture day in and day out.
...as in missing the greatest works of Western art, literature, music, philosophy...from Dante to Schumann and...Corot...Rousseau...Keats...
Sometimes I think the genius of American culture has been to bring superficiality, conformity, and hollowness to a new apex and then to deliver it to the rest of the world
Someday, perhaps, Americans will realize that their allegiance to technology (i-phones, 6G networks, Facebook, guns, decibel-crushing music, football, botox, television commercials, walking the dog, fast cars, Mcmansions...) has displaced any sense of the deeper meaning in life.
Mass popular culture is designed to please the greatest number of people ("the bandwagon effect" is particularly effective) and has nothing to do with the individual. It could care less about you.
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"Life is tons of hard work, loads of 4D entertainment...it's about dare-devil thrills, getting to the top (and staying there), family. And plenty of rah-rah flag-waving + God sprinkled on top.
We sell it, we buy it.
'You're looking good, baby, you bet.'"
Who would disagree?
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