Junk culture and you
October 19, 2009
Filed under Opinion
Anything we accept socially seems to be some sort of frenzy created by the media through movies, magazines and ads. The romantic and over done view of high school life seems to be filled with generic characters with generic plots.
I have never watched a movie or TV show dealing with teen life and thought that it represented my life at all. It was full of the teen clichés of wanting to be popular, getting the dream lover, or defeating the mean yet beautiful rulers of the ultimate social kingdom by simply being a good person. Hopefully, no one is so far in denial that such concepts are valued or even valued higher over serious ambitions or goals.
I don’t see the point of spending time reading badly written teen novels or watching Taylor Swift’s video blogs on YouTube. This junk culture should be limited to the extreme.
I do get a kick out of watching the legendary “Degrassi” with the company of friends but I do only think of it as entertainment, not as a guidebook to the way the world is or should be.
There isn’t any reason to take celebrity culture seriously. Media glamorizes everything that is sensual to the human spirit in order to make money.
It is a business and the more you buy into the fantasy they seem to concoct, the less you focus on bettering yourself and the world around you. Get creative and start weeding out the unnecessary ideals of the money hungry.
Their message is hidden yet simple: buy our stuff. We live in a time of 24/7 distraction and the best way to weed out pointless ideals is to recognize how much we spend our time absorbing celebrity culture instead of looking deeper into ourselves.
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