Pistonsbeneath wrote:yeah of course man...there is more to all of us...i wouldn't deny that....many people seek to stifle their own potential though!
i wasn't saying btw that these people are retards because they like pop music...i was saying many people that buy the sort of thing we are talking about seem special in a non conventional sense....in away i strongly suspect is intrinsically involved with their music choices...the biggest example is the jls album actually...teenage girls that really seem to have possibly lost intelligence over time as opposed to being just downright stupid...
not all i say again...just a lot and those people never buy anything that engages thought of any kind...
i have friends that dont care about music that range from gymnasts to youth workers...i know what you mean but that wasnt really my point mate
i get to deal with a massive selection of the public...most of my coworkers would agree with what im saying to a huge extent...why do you think it's the case?
I'd lean to thinking it was the natural skew that you get from working in an industry... I work in IT and most people I work with consider the "average person" to be an absolute moron incapable of and unwilling to understand basic technical concepts. That's plainly not true - most real people I meet are perfectly willing to listen/learn. I think all industries stereotype their customers a bit... it's natural because the bad customers are the ones that leave the memories.
I'm sure you're right to a certain extent... I think it's the degree of it all that I'm not sure about and I'm genuinely not convinced about the global conspiracy angle - I tend to think humans are naturally sex-obsessed, social-climbers... and I think that as a result most humans will naturally do their best to find a mate and become as "successful" as possible, however that success is defined in their little slice of society.
What happened, IMHO, during the 20th Century is that the masses got the financial freedom to express those impulses. Prior to WW2 and especially prior to the 20th Century, the average person in the Western World couldn't afford luxuries... they couldn't afford holidays, couldn't afford fancy food, fancy clothes or even proper medical care... suddenly as things got wealthier and wealthier, free time and spare cash rocketed up and we spent it on..... sex and social climbing! Whereas in previous centuries, the musical legacy was left behind by the heavily trained upper-classes, the 20th Century handed the baton to the people... pop music became simpler, more immediate and more overtly sex-obsessed.
Although it's not necessarily a positive thing, I don't see any reason to believe in people behind the scenes machinating pop acts and movies that subvert society - I think that wealthy (whether that be from money or some other construct) human society naturally moves to being more obsessed with sex and social-success - they're our most natural forms of gratification... the lowest common denominator that we can almost all get on board with.
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