losers ruleL the anti-hero in contemporary media.
Sub-thread regarding the inversion of values in media - the place where the presentation of negative psychological characteristics pays.
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I posted this in my journal as a rumination on the anti-hero as role model - What are your thoughts on this?
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Our absurd romantic obsession with the heroic status that disaffected anti-heroic youth hold in this media-soaked society is a sad situation. There are so many instances where alienated crude and violent, even criminal young people are held up to be some sort of paragon of cool that many contemporary humans have a knee-jerk emotional affection for the stereotype. Countless children, adolescents - and adults who should know better - identify with sociopathological pseudo-role models.
Of course it is to their detriment. And it is our loss.
As long as the purveyors of popular culture continue to profit from producing a constant stream of such figures for the consumption of young and impressionable minds, these obsessions will continue. Inept dramatists and uninspired artists create the cliches while generations of media-trained children and adults eat them up like so much brain candy.
Personally, I have come to loathe this stereotype for what it is - a cheap and manipulative attempt to popularize losers and another example of how a corrupt cultural hegemony profits by appealing to the lowest common denominators of human behavior.
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