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Look... if im in my heart of hearts and being serious. i dont mind pop culture. i think when people get a little too obsessed with cape shit or whatever. They would certainly be better spending that time reading, but i dont actually hate pop culture in moderation. Even if most of it is trash right now.
Your issues with “pop culture” are issue with capitalism and commodification of all aspects of our lives. And people’s survival reactions to that.
Pop culture is popular culture. Culture of the people. In juxtaposition to “high art”, or art for the elites.
We should champion good pop culture. It’s OUR culture.
this is cope for someone obsessed with movies and video games.
Its slop designed to keep us complacent.
Pop culture is music, it’s painting, it’s theatre. It’s not just video games and movies. And it can be other things in the future as well.
It’s literally just art for the people, for the masses. That’s us.
Unless you don’t think art has any purpose, you have no reason to oppose “pop culture”, instead of how capitalism distorts and commodifies our popular expressions to control more and more of our reality.
I think youre just arguing semantics with me.
Im sure you know when im talking about pop culture. i mean cape shit and star wars, video games etc, Game of Thrones etc.
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its slop and treats designed to make people complacent in being fucked over.
Do you think comics are inferior to opera? Do you think fantasy books are inferior to symphonies? Do you think point-and-click games are inferior to still life paintings?
Or do you just think art is useless? Or worse, detrimental to the human experience?
I’m honestly asking.
I have other things to worry about other than Video games, Super Heros, Game of Thrones, and star wars.
i like video games, i like horror novels. i wont make them a passion though
people who want to fart in movie seats while watching deadpool are fine with me. i just do not like it myself
Man the way I see it, the whole purpose of communism is to free the individual to fully live our lives. To learn, create and play.
Those are the things that make humanity, and being a human, awesome. Without those things our lives are just empty survival.
And I just think how you view “pop culture” is a bit due to elitism (not yours per se, systemically), and how we view things made “for the masses” to be low quality and to have no worth.
I see all art after the revolution being popular art. All culture being pop culture.
When you mention “video games”, “super heroes”, and IPs, you are not seeing the pop culture, you are seeing the capitalism.
And art is not something we “worry” about. It’s what makes all the worrying of life matter.