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How connected are you to Pop culture.

First off...don't think I'm asking this like "OMG eww..you like somthing popular.. that's so mainstream" or whatever.

There's pros and cons to being both connected to popular media/culture and being disconnected.

I myself am almost entirely disconnected. I still do the facebook thing...but on a very light scale...but that's about it. sports I guess count but after that I honestly don't know anything about anything popular.

My girlfriend is really my only connection, and she's just barely in touch with whats going on..she just watches celebrity apprentice.

Utterly disconnected. (if you don't count the Facebook thing)

I've experienced two side effects from this:

One is the complete disbelief that occurs when I mention to someone that I don't have a TV at home, or that I haven't watched TV in over a decade.. some people are shocked by this, as if I'd just mentioned that I don't have running water at my house, or that I live by candlelight.

The second thing: the many, many conversations I've heard that revolve around something on TV that I simply couldn't follow at all.. I have absolutely no idea about and no opinion on a whole brigade of TV characters, new-ish actors, singers, bands, TV shows etc..

In some respects, I'm Pop-culture handicapped.. Sometimes, I wish I could offer an opinion when asked about something happening on TV, but for the most part, I don't care. It's much like being a foreigner all the time - a thing I'm very used to.

hot bitches are my connection to pop culture

I listen to Z100 New York and KISS FM LA on satellite radio, It makes me feel young; it's good driving music too. In Sunny Florida, you pretty much live inside your vehicle. I haven't been to the movie theater in months, prob breaking that now that it's summertime. I don't watch any television, last thing i watched was Conan on TBS but I was at a friends house. So, pretty disconnected, except for some top 40 nonsense while driving.

I personally enjoy British television the most, I love Dr.Who (UK), and recently a friend from of mine from the UK recommended the tv show 'Queer for Folk' the (UK version). He was telling me how people were shocked when it came out, And i must say, i've learned alot about gay UK culture from it. It's pretty cool to see a TV show for gay people that are portrayed as normal, and not dysfunctional queeny boys with obnoxious lisps.

I'm pretty disconnected too. No TV here, and I don't really follow any of that stupid shit. I read NY Mag, though, and I suppose that gives me a sufficient dose of what's going on in the pop culture world. Of course I use facebook also.

Totally disconnected from everything. I don't have Facebook, Myspace or account on any other socialization network. I only have one real friend whom I haven't seen since 2010 and we keep in contact from time to time. Still using messenger and only talking to a few people (mostly about music). I never listen to radio and only watch TV when there are football (soccer) matches on. Only go clubbing like twice a year.

I'm an avid cinema viewer though, going pretty often.

I only watch windows and TNA Wrestling.

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Originally posted by Intellekshual Utterly disconnected. (if you don't count the Facebook thing) I've experienced two side effects from this: One is the complete disbelief that occurs when I mention to someone that I don't have a TV at home, or that I haven't watched TV in over a decade.. some people are shocked by this, as if I'd just mentioned that I don't have running water at my house, or that I live by candlelight. The second thing: the many, many conversations I've heard that revolve around something on TV that I simply couldn't follow at all.. I have absolutely no idea about and no opinion on a whole brigade of TV characters, new-ish actors, singers, bands, TV shows etc.. In some respects, I'm Pop-culture handicapped.. Sometimes, I wish I could offer an opinion when asked about something happening on TV, but for the most part, I don't care. It's much like being a foreigner all the time - a thing I'm very used to.

You're just like, sooo intellectual man.


I don't see anything wrong with having an awareness of what's going on in pop culture. Nothing's worse than trying to engage with some out of touch fuck who thinks the only meaningful topics of discussion can't be found on television/in the media. Give me a fucking break. You remember Theresa, right? She ignored the news? Yeah.

It's people who are so absorbed in pop culture without being able to critically appraise it that suck hard. Otherwise, what's the big deal? It's everywhere ffs...you people are really saying you're not connected at all? Think about how ridiculous and stupid that sounds.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie You're just like, sooo intellectual man. I don't see anything wrong with having an awareness of what's going on in pop culture. Nothing's worse than trying to engage with some out of touch fuck who thinks the only meaningful topics of discussion can't be found on television/in the media. Give me a fucking break. You remember Theresa, right? She ignored the news? Yeah. It's people who are so absorbed in pop culture without being able to critically appraise it that suck hard. Otherwise, what's the big deal? It's everywhere ffs...you people are really saying you're not connected at all? Think about how ridiculous and stupid that sounds.

When the fuck did I say that I think it's "wrong"?.. I don't see anything wrong with being connected to Pop culture, either. It just doesn't interest me, personally. It's not my cup of Chai, you know?

I get my news from the interwebs, I still watch DVDs and go to movie theaters.. and if there is something relevant going on that deserves my attention, I can stream the fucking news report online.

And yeah don't compare me to Theresa who ignored the news because "the world is going to shit" or "because it's depressing".. we're not remotely comparable in that respect. It's the sort of apathy that causes people to lament that the world is going to shit and then think that realizing that absolves them of the need to educate themselves any further that is making the world go to shit.

Oh, ok.

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Originally posted by Miss Pie Nothing's worse than trying to engage with some out of touch fuck who thinks the only meaningful topics of discussion can't be found on television/in the media.

This... is not even true. How could you think this?

But I will say that people who suppose 'alternative culture' to not be pop culture are understandably laughable, and it's super common for these types to gravitate all conversation toward only things that they know. See: EDM and the 'underground', for example. Or rivetheads, when it comes to my interests. This isn't really a result of their exposure to 'the mainstream' or not, it's simply a result of them being boring fuckers with nothing relative to say because they are as equally fixated on their own sub-culture as the very people in the metaculture they so often suppose they're sticking it to.

Lol, sticking it to.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On This... is not even true. How could you think this?

What do you mean it isn't true? You've never been involved in a conversation with someone too snotty to acknowledge the mundane and/or idiotic? Like they're somehow above it/better than that? Hahahaha. It is 100% true.

Well sure, I talk to myself often, you see.

HAW HAW YOU SO FUNNEEE.

No, but I think we're talking about two different things, here.

Some of the most interesting times from my own life have been in periods of utter disconnect. I wasn't a luddite, I was just too poor for internet/a television. And I grew up between households (surprised face!) where one didn't have a television device at all well into my mid teens, just out of principle. So I think I have lived both ends of the pop culture exposure spectrum, and am better from either period. I'm not supposing superiority, I just feel more complete when I go great extents not subscribing to the depressive feed that they keep people so reliably roped in by.

I know there's really no way to escape it if you still like any vestige of civilization, but people who try to dwell in the quietude of life are not incomplete, they're just standing outside of the automatic cycles most people allow themselves to be dominated by. But of course you have a great point in that it's far more interesting to temper ones criticism of culture from within, rather than without. I just find it necessary to wander away from the deluge if one wants to dry.

Of course, and I wasn't suggesting otherwise. What do you think camping trips are for?

It takes significantly longer for me to squeegee the filth of modern man out of my eyes. Lol, gross.

In any case, I find it much better to create and define pop culture, rather than to laud what already exists.

But since there's nothing new under the sun, we have to go UNDERGROUND! It's a necessity of masturbatory necromancy, as is the essence of all things interesting.

Does coffee count as pop culture?

That bad, huh? Again, I don't see what the big deal is. Just because we're surrounded by it every day, doesn't mean we're automatically "subscribing to the depressive feed". I actually think it's important to have a constant reminder of it, and be able to critique it for what it is...to me that's grounding. Whether we like it or not, this is the shit that's going on in our world. There has to be some moment where we acknowledge it, even if it's just to dismiss it quickly thereafter.

Well I really don't disagree with you, I just value being relatively ignorant at times. It's not always a bad thing, because it can really help you appreciate things you've never noticed before, natural things.

It's funny that Intellekshual mentioned not having running water or lights at home, because I did live like that for a few months. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't some third world simulation I opted in to get to know my self better - we could drive to 'town' and buy fresh water and such, so I was very much still living like whitey. But falling asleep each night when the lights went out, not having to tolerate the din of cathode ray hums or the flickering of liquid crystals... there was an austerity to it. I taught myself how to read again! And how to walk about and not feel like I was missing something at home or that I had to be back by a certain time to see this show or that.

I know this isn't precisely what the topic is addressing, but I don't believe it's terribly unrelated. Attention to pop culture, even if its of an all-too-common dismissive nature, is still attention, and can most often only serve to distract someone from things that are much better, more fulfilling. Balance is everything, of course, I am completely with you there, but imbalance is important to experience as well, and it's not always a detraction to oneself.

Though something that hasn't been addressed is just how one defines what 'popular culture' is. I think it's just whatever is on primetime television or A-list celebrity news. But it's obviously a very vague term, as popularity, itself, is such a very amorphous thing.

Perhaps it can be said that pop culture is the antithesis of nostalgia? I like that thought. Both extremes have their perils.

Welp, back to the low standards thread.

I don't know enough about pop culture to judge how connected I am to it.

I'm not all that connected.

I don't watch a lot of TV save for sports. Most of my spare time is spent on the internet and videogames.

That said, I'm pretty up to date and current when it comes to internet culture, which is sort of it's own pop-culture-ish environment. I'm usually a few months ahead of the mainstream with internet memes and funny jokes/videos that are found on the web. Often viral videos and popular memes that are just beginning to be talked about IRL are things I've already come across and long forgotten 6 months ago.

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