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I don't know if its a waste of time to take the pop culture industry so seriously. Sure its an extraordinary waste of time to obsess about how the latest pop culture icon got to the top, what they ate for breakfast or who they're fucking but I don't think its a waste of time to recognize or even be concerned about the impact it has on our society. We, here in the states at least, are so passive about it, we let the pop culture machine practically define entire generations but couldn't care less about how they go about doing it. I do think over time vapid reality shows, shallow music, silly fads, movies with insulting, childish plots (and lots of explosions), magazine racks full of publications about dumb celebrities, millions of websites full of the same and badly written dime store novels have a huge impact on who we are as a people. Maybe if we as a society took it more seriously and tried not to indulge ourselves in every piece of garbage that comes down the chute the industry might be compelled to put out stuff with more substance.
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