Popular culture or simply 'pop culture', is everything that is trending. From music to art to dresses to makeup, pop culture includes the choice of the majority of the people.
But how exactly does it become the choice of the majority of the people? Since we are taught that everybody is different and opinions and choices will always vary; how can we wrap our heads around the idea that there is a majority in the world that likes the same kind of music or art or such?
According to me, this is what basically is the enforcing of popular culture in the society. Enforcing popular culture is when somebody is coerced or pushed into liking something that they naturally wouldn't like just because 'everybody' likes it. There is a specific term used for this, i.e. "Jumping on the bandwagon."
In my previous blog, I talked about acceptance and how humans crave for it from the day that they start having consciousness. Every human has a pathological need to be loved and accepted for what they are and when they do not get it, they fake who they are to receive that love. This is what coerces them into pop culture.
Because let's be honest, hearing Bob Dylan sing only a sentence of Tambourine Man is something everybody would choose over hearing the same word on the same beat over and over again, but are too scared to say it out loud.
Hence, this is how popular culture is slowly creeping into most of the facets of the society and enforcing itself upon various generations.
But how exactly does it become the choice of the majority of the people? Since we are taught that everybody is different and opinions and choices will always vary; how can we wrap our heads around the idea that there is a majority in the world that likes the same kind of music or art or such?
According to me, this is what basically is the enforcing of popular culture in the society. Enforcing popular culture is when somebody is coerced or pushed into liking something that they naturally wouldn't like just because 'everybody' likes it. There is a specific term used for this, i.e. "Jumping on the bandwagon."
In my previous blog, I talked about acceptance and how humans crave for it from the day that they start having consciousness. Every human has a pathological need to be loved and accepted for what they are and when they do not get it, they fake who they are to receive that love. This is what coerces them into pop culture.
Because let's be honest, hearing Bob Dylan sing only a sentence of Tambourine Man is something everybody would choose over hearing the same word on the same beat over and over again, but are too scared to say it out loud.
Hence, this is how popular culture is slowly creeping into most of the facets of the society and enforcing itself upon various generations.
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