Ugh, don't even get me started on what's on TV these days, the only thing I watch on TV now is House M.D. every Tuesday at 8 and that's it, otherwise I haven't watched TV for about two years now, any series that I want to see I can buy on DVD or just download it (which I've done many times) so there just really seems to be no point in turning on the TV at all these days.
Really, what seems to be happening to our culture is, at its basest levels, a complete atrophy and decay of our morals and sense of decency, everything is immediate gratification, everyone wants something and they want it NOW! People have forgotten the value of patience as well as losing most of what is usually referred to as 'common sense'. Though one of the biggest things it seems people have forgotten is simply how to have a shred of kindness and empathy in them, people are too wrapped up in their own lives to give a damn about anybody else, it will not be the bomb that destroys us but the cancer of apathy that festers malignantly within us. What sets humans apart from the rest of the animals in the world our ability to reason and feel emotions greater than simple like or dislike, to be able to use logic instead of instinct to understand and make decisions upon, what our society is doing now is slowly but surely disregarding all of this and returning to their base animal instincts but with one new, malevolent one added in, just for us, the need to have power and control. Because, if you think about it, that's all that popular culture panders too, our base animal instincts, with sex, violence, and food. Essentially we're degrading, evolutionally anyway.
It's sad to think that we may have all ready passed the peak of art and literature and that we are now merely in the following downward spiral but it does hold much possibility as, while there are still some good books being written and beautiful songs being performed, it's just not up to the standard that it used to be, as you said, there are no more masterpieces being made. And while we can only hope and prey for another 'Renaissance' I honestly don't believe humanity will last to see the year 2100, if that, honestly I'm questioning whether I might not be witness to the end of humanity. That's quite the sobering thought isn't it, that we might be witnessing the human races last dying spasms right now as we go about our daily lives.
Oh, and as for things like Myspace, Xanga, Blogs, and other such things, as far as I'm concerned those are just mediums used by people so desperate for attention, acceptance, and affection that they are willing to put massive amounts of personal information up for perusal by any random stranger.
Anyway, glad to see that you've finally deigned to come out of lurker-dom Curious Stranger, not to mention reviving one of my old threads, so, on behalf of TFF, welcome to the board.
Really, what seems to be happening to our culture is, at its basest levels, a complete atrophy and decay of our morals and sense of decency, everything is immediate gratification, everyone wants something and they want it NOW! People have forgotten the value of patience as well as losing most of what is usually referred to as 'common sense'. Though one of the biggest things it seems people have forgotten is simply how to have a shred of kindness and empathy in them, people are too wrapped up in their own lives to give a damn about anybody else, it will not be the bomb that destroys us but the cancer of apathy that festers malignantly within us. What sets humans apart from the rest of the animals in the world our ability to reason and feel emotions greater than simple like or dislike, to be able to use logic instead of instinct to understand and make decisions upon, what our society is doing now is slowly but surely disregarding all of this and returning to their base animal instincts but with one new, malevolent one added in, just for us, the need to have power and control. Because, if you think about it, that's all that popular culture panders too, our base animal instincts, with sex, violence, and food. Essentially we're degrading, evolutionally anyway.
It's sad to think that we may have all ready passed the peak of art and literature and that we are now merely in the following downward spiral but it does hold much possibility as, while there are still some good books being written and beautiful songs being performed, it's just not up to the standard that it used to be, as you said, there are no more masterpieces being made. And while we can only hope and prey for another 'Renaissance' I honestly don't believe humanity will last to see the year 2100, if that, honestly I'm questioning whether I might not be witness to the end of humanity. That's quite the sobering thought isn't it, that we might be witnessing the human races last dying spasms right now as we go about our daily lives.
Oh, and as for things like Myspace, Xanga, Blogs, and other such things, as far as I'm concerned those are just mediums used by people so desperate for attention, acceptance, and affection that they are willing to put massive amounts of personal information up for perusal by any random stranger.
Anyway, glad to see that you've finally deigned to come out of lurker-dom Curious Stranger, not to mention reviving one of my old threads, so, on behalf of TFF, welcome to the board.
