cleverness is the disease we succumbed to after being brain-fed too many sitcoms in our youth. so much cheap wit, so much instant gratification. easier than even a sunday morning, we sink into our tidy cleverness and fill the world with one-line-wonders and cheap half-laughs. why the fuck does everybody want to sound like jack tripper, or ellen, or ross? and if a tree falls in the forest, do they hear the canned laughter?
and yet - why begrudge the cleverness? should i not celebrate the ability to caricaturize life? is that not an excerpt from my own definition of a writer's - nay, an artist's responsibility? to savour it all and then spread that flu with a kiss?
i mean, not all cleverness is trite. not all instant gratification is useless, or terrible.
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Is popular culture getting worse overall? Or is some of it getting worse, and some of it improving?
People sometimes argue that western popular culture tends to pander to the basest tastes and desires of the unwashed masses, and that it continues to decline in quality. And I find it difficult to disagree at times.
But, if this is true, then it makes me wonder: who is to blame: the 'media conglomerates' for foisting this crap on us, or all the masses in need of a bath for buying it?
Do the masses get what they deserve, or do they deserve better?
Am I a member of the masses, or am I a superior being?
--Coder
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