Popular Culture

What does it say about our society that the Emmy's have so much glitz and attention and the Nobel Prizes are quietly announced in the news? Is this bad? Good? Appropriate?

In today’s day in age, it comes as no shock that something that appeals to entertainment can receive more credit and praise than something that may affect the world as a whole. This is not something that we should celebrate in the least. We are becoming a generation that has traded in Nova Magazines that help us appreciate the world we live in for Seventeen Magazine to find out what type of relationship we are looking for. Children of today simply have lost interest in what affects them most.  Moreover, when we do praise worldly affairs, it is only because they have become a part of popular culture. Look to Steve Jobs, simply because of his death everyone fled towards his ‘legacy’ claiming that he was an amazing man of unprecedented proportions who changed the world completely – why? Because twitter said so. What they fail to recognize is the fact that unlike other rich entrepreneurs, Steve Jobs did little to none for philanthropy, despite his mass accumulation of wealth. Yet why do we recognize him and mourn his death? It is not because he helped save millions of lives, its because he invented something that helped expand our pop culture lust. We have lost interest in persons who truly benefit mankind, and have found interest in people who benefit entertainment and popular culture, why – because its popular. And therein lays the faults of humanity.