JD12345 wrote:
Popular culture is a concept that I'm quite dubious about. Many people just don't seem to grasp that taste is fundamentally individual, rather than collective. It's particularly grating when there are attempts to 'assign' a taste to a particular group (for example, if you're male you must like this, if you're young you must like that, if you're from that part of the world you must be an expert on such and such), and anyone within that said group who doesn't fit in with the crude stereotype is seen to be a rabid eccentric or weirdo.
Like if you're in your 30s, you need to learn to like everything that is new and current in television and films and music, and if your inclinations are more towards the past (60s, 70s, 80s), then something is wrong with you (like say, if you're in your late-30s [which I am], and you get more enjoyment out of
The Streets of San Francisco from the 70s, than
Law & Order SVU of today, some people might think you a weirdo); would that be an accurate assessment of what you're saying?
Yes. The funny thing is that it's generally become more and more easy over time to access such works, first with VHS/DVD/Cassette/CD/etc, then with streaming services. Generally I find that art and literature are the areas where being interested in the classics and older works is frowned upon the least, possibly because they aren't overly 'popular' areas in themselves. Music, on the contrary, tends to be the one where there is the greatest pressure to be interested in whatever is popular at the given moment.
04 Jul 2019, 6:46 am
