Random Musings On Our Popular Culture

Many people who have a great deal of time on their hands due to the leisure nature of many societies today engage in a large amount of random musings on our popular culture. There are so many things going on in society today that would make our grandparents blink their eyes in surprise that there almost isn't enough time in the day to catalog them all.

As a way of illustrating that point, how many of our grandparents who lived in World War II or sometime around that era could ever conceive that we would be able to make use of something called a computer that didn't take up a whole room or cost millions of dollars. And the fact that we now paint these machines with what are called computer skins? To them, they would have no idea what a skin is.

And when it comes to personal health and fitness — or at least giving the appearance of personal health and fitness — how many of our grandparents out there would even be familiar with the term 6 pack abs? It's probably a good guess that not many of them would think of a six pack as being much more than something beer or soda was carried around in rather than something done to buff up abdominal muscles.

As far as body art — which is the more socially acceptable term for tattoos these days — the very fact that one can design own tattoo drawings and then have an artist with them on one's skin probably would come as a big surprise to all those Navy sailors throughout the years who got their tattoos from some tattoo parlor in San Diego or Norfolk, Virginia.

Today, popular culture is so much a part of the fabric of our lives that we probably wouldn't want to escape it even if we could. It is their, staring us in the face, 24 hours a day and we pretty much seem to love that fact to however, most Amish or other communities who like to live simple lives probably don't think as highly of it as we do, especially if they have to ride their carts on the same road our cars are on.

These people focus on preventing the intrusion of popular culture into their lives and communities whenever they can. It's probably a good bet that they consider us to be living far too much in the present and future and not nearly enough in the simple past we supposedly had. But, when looking back at that past, most people would probably never want to go back to that kind of living.

Popular culture will always be popular culture matter the era, though. When Elvis Presley made his debut, many people considered that he was the beginning of the end of society. Nowadays, people look back at those times and wonder what all the fuss was about. It's fairly certain that people 50 years from now we'll look back at these times and wonder why we were such fuddy-duddies.