It s quite simple, really. Pop culture in all of its forms, that is. Our lives as Americans must be incredibly complex, that for recreation we opt for the simplest, most banal forms of amusement. We want the excitement, we want the romance, and we want the drama, but we want it all right now, before our attention wanders to the next fleeting engagement. None of this is possible because like everything else in our society, entertainment is cyclical.
Originality leads to a new definition, a new inclusion even, in the status quo.
Similar to how everyone tries so desperately hard to be different just so they can fit in. But that s a topic for another post All this entertainment is destroying our society. We are addicted. We crave more and more of the next big thing, which in reality is the same as the last big thing. Shows which represent the latest wave of ostensible sophisticated television, such as Dawson s Creek , display the exact same nature of the lifestyle they purport to eschew.