The trash metaphor we are ever-so-cleverly using up there in the title refers to the apparent vacuousness of American popular culture: humiliating reality television, celebrity news programs, kitchen appliance companies selling music/film/art, game shows where idiots scream at suitcases filled with money, etc.
This website will focus on these and the many other elements that comprise this particular white noise. But instead of dismissing pop culture as meaningless, thoughtless escapism, we intend on examining it's meaning, finding its patterns, assessing its political context, and disseminating how this affects us all.
Is Paris Hilton simply an example of "famous for being famous" without any sense of irony, or does she provide a greater example of a generation raised to value consumption and materialistic obsession as virtue?
We intend to find out.
(The paragraph above is just an example of the kind of social commentary we plan to provide. We probably won't actually get around to talking about Ms. Hilton.)
2 comments:
Mr. Basura,
May we still make sardonic insults (and occasionally take cheap shots) directed at celebrities we may or may not know on a personal level without adding any larger sociological context? I mean.. I could go either way..
Oh, please do. Cheap shot away.
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