Who else is tired of societies infatuation with fame and being known by other people? I mean really, I can understand being interested in meeting a person who has done a piece of work/art that moved you so much that you wanted to thank them in person, but pop culture and the media in general is just a big giant waste of fluff. I'm just really struck by how much of a motivation fame is, and how people want to be recognized and acknowledged by society.
I was watching Get Him to the Greek yesterday and two things really popped out at me.
1. People can be blindly infatuated with an object of media. When Aaron said to Aldous "All these people like you. You know, I even liked you before I meet you." I really started thinking about how blindly people fallow something so contrived and synthetic. Aldous is a terrible human being, and yet people look up to him because of how he plays the game of fame. It's all one big "mind fuck", and Aldous knows how to pull peoples strings.
2. "Humans are polygamists by nature."
All my life I've been up sold on the institute of marriage and told that humans are a mammal species that stick with one mate. This is so blatantly not the case. So why do we kid ourself with the idea of "true love" and the act of signing a contract to stay with one sexual partner when it does not work out? If you're in an open relationship you never have to worry about your partner "cheating" on you, because you both realize that you have certain sexual urges/desires that need to be fulfilled by other partners. Without this uncertainty you can trust your partner more IMO, leading to a happier and longer lasting relationship. I know not everyone feels this way sexually, but the devoice rates these days lead me to believe that a majority do even if they haven't come to terms with their own sexuality.
Well, feel free to comment/discuss if you find any of my musings interesting.
That's deep man. I agree liking someone before even getting to know them is stupid.
[QUOTE=Smooth-e;25252985]That's deep man. I agree liking someone before even getting to know them is stupid.[/QUOTE]
I know, life is full of superficial surface encounters (another good quote from the movie, but I'm using it in a different context). So many people are swayed by first impressions. Instead of really understanding the issue by holding it, rotating it 360 degrees to view it from each angle and taking a scalpel to dissect it, people just take that first impression and base their final judgement on it.
[QUOTE=newbs;25253104]I know, life is full of superficial surface encounters (another good quote from the movie, but I'm using it in a different context). So many people are swayed by first impressions. Instead of really understanding the issue by holding it, rotating it 360 degrees to view it from each angle and taking a scalpel to dissect it, people just take that first impression and base their final judgement on it.[/QUOTE]
A lot of times this is a good thing. Although I agree we as a society often use it in situations where it shouldn't be used, in many situations it is used for the best.
Off the top of my head: You see a bear charge towards you. Do you take your time to examine if it's really going to do you harm, or do you assume it is going to and react accordingly?
This is just an example, I know you're speaking in a more in depth way, but I think a lot of times it's a natural, first reaction to judge. Although I would say that it is okay to have a first impression and judge somebody after meeting them once, or even just seeing them once, I would also say that it's important to give people more than one chance in most, non-extreme cases.
It's not that big of a surprise that people look up to others, it's been like that forever and you can't change it. Who would actually admit that they wouldn't want to be known for something? Also, it's in our nature to rely on first impressions, we can't really sit down with celebrities and learn everything about them to conclude that they're nice people. We just assume they are until they fuck up.
"Pop culture and the media in general is just a big giant waste of fluff." Without it, we wouldn't have news to inform us about entertainment, the government, wars, crisis's, financial reports, etc.. or direction in which we could follow.
[QUOTE=sYnced;25253800]It's not that big of a surprise that people look up to others, it's been like that forever and you can't change it. Who would actually admit that they wouldn't want to be known for something? Also, it's in our nature to rely on first impressions, we can't really sit down with celebrities and learn everything about them to conclude that they're nice people. We just assume they are until they fuck up.
"Pop culture and the media in general is just a big giant waste of fluff." Without it, we wouldn't have news to inform us about entertainment, the government, wars, crisis's, financial reports, etc.. or direction in which we could follow.[/QUOTE]
True, I do think a lot of our judgement is based off of instinctual reactions. But I think a lot of people use their instincts in the wrong place/way when it comes to dealing with certain issues in society and the media knows and exploits this.
I feel that for the most part media + pop culture leads people in the wrong direction to benefit their own selfish agenda. I think now with the increasing amount of easily accessible and reliable information provided by communication technologies such as the internet, people need to stop relying on what they're told and do a little bit of searching for themselves. The average american watches a ridiculous amount of television per week. If we could just take that time to garner less, but more reliable (and relevant to our daily lives) information, I think the world would be a better place from an individual perspective and a whole.
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