Pop culture or trend?

I’ve said in the past that pop culture is a trend I want to try to explain what I meant by that. People say that pop culture is just that “culture that pops up at the drop of a hat and then goes way just as fast”.

What is pop culture truly? Is it not us as humans making decisions without immediate consequences? Pop culture distracts us from focusing on what’s important to us as a whole.  “This movie is really good you should go see it” or “his or her music is the greatest you should listen to it” these statements are to us evidence that we can make a decision off of that for the most part doesn’t seem to come with any immediate negative side effects. Even with drugs for the most part the first use is not fatal so you have the good without the bad. Even if the bad does happen it’s only ourselves, our choice doesn’t affect others.  

How about texting it’s ok right now because we don’t see immediate consequences. We get to chose what kind of phone we text from and who we can text too without having face to face interactions that might end up bad for us. When there maybe long term side effects that we can’t see right now. Logic may say that we are training ourselves to not know how to physically interact with each other. Like let’s say for instance when we text to someone that we are angry or mad with them we can say what we like. But if you’re at school and then are thrown into a confrontation with a friend over a boyfriend or girlfriend cursing at them can lead to a physical confrontation because we don’t truly know how to act socially. That is just a thought that’s been passed around over the last few years because of children killing children.

We as humans want to show how human we are. This is one thing I have gotten from the class I’m taking, we unlike other mammals have the ability to rationalize and think and ignore what is instinctual. To steal from a pop culture movie, we have the right and ability to choose. (Even if our choices truly in the long run mean absolutely nothing to the growth or better of our society)