Monday, September 19, 2011

[Mass Culture]... it thus destroys all values, since value judgements imply discrimination. Mass Culture is very, very democratic: it absolutely refuses to discriminate against, or between, anything or anybody.

I find this qoute to be very true however i do not agree with the negative connotation that is put behind it. With high culture people who are not as educated can not enjoy or understand the same cultural art as the more educated. I think this in fact is more discriminatory than mass culture could ever be because with mass culture people can all enjoy a bit of their culture without having to feel dumb for not being "cultured". In the assigned reading the authors expressed how the attention span for our culture is becoming smaller and smaller. We make movies but never keep to one scene for more than 45 seconds. This is true however with smaller scenes there is more content we have to digest which i think makes us have to think just as hard.

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