How do you deal with people who are addicted to pop culture?
How do you deal with people who are addicted to pop culture?
Like literally all they care about is the newest movies or video games coming out.
Why is that something that needs to be dealt with?
Because occasionally one must tolerate things that are not in our circle of enjoyment? Friends, companions, acquaintances, coworkers or whatever reason they happen to be in your social circle…
I have a couple friends that i get along with perfectly other than the fact that they are Swifties. Im not going to not be friends with them despite how often they talk about the tortured poets lament or whatever the fuck its called.
This. Our best friends have just about the worst taste in pop culture, and you know how people like to make references...
That doesn't take away from how much fun they are to hang out with. We have a lot of other things in common.
Whenever I encounter people at work or whatever who are like what OP described I really don't know how to deal with them. When I'm on a shift for eight hours with someone whom I have absolutely nothing in common with and they refuse to come an inch my way conversationally, it's very awkward. I've made efforts to find common ground before, but some people are just a brick wall
The issue with pop culture is that it is directly related to consumerism. Music used to be fun, easily accessible and very experimental. Whatever the fuck happened post-20th century has stifled the growth of culture - too bad they failed to stiffle drawing and related art-form, but when we are talking about dance, music or movie, everything is whack.
Every music out there is crappy, whitewashed hiphop derivative, taking a piss on the older culture, stealing works of artists who identify themselves under indie, experimental scenes. What's worse is that these music have destroyed the classical folk music outside of America.
TL:DR; people listen to this ear-turd: ABCDEFU - abcdefu
Oh, do you want Israel propaganda song? Tadaa! Listen to The Exodus Song, which is also from a propaganda pro-Israeli movie!
And don't even get me started on T-Series monopoly ruining Indian music scene brutally - they made two songs on Coca-Cola:
These videos are misogynistic - because they're item songs.
Is none of this dystopic?
I am jealous of those people in some ways. They're probably much happier than I am.
so much of our culture is now based on media consumption, it's hard to avoid. too expensive to do anything but sit at home and watch TV
I guess movies etc can be a segue into talking about other topics. so if they talk about Furiosa you can bum them out by talking about the real climate apocalypse
This is some youth pastor stuff and I'm here for it.
Change the topic to older movies. Get recommendations. Pirate the recommended movies and watch them. Now you can talk about the older movies.
I have befriended several coworkers this way. People fucking love it when other people listen to their recommendations. And hey, sometimes the recommendations are good!
Stare at them reproachfully every time they talk about the new Tay Tay album, or the new PS5 game.
I have some friends who are Disney adults, they made me watch Free Guy...
How do I tolerate it? I pretend to like it while I die inside... I'm profoundly unwell.
I say "Hi" to my coworkers and try to change the subject
Fortunately I don’t run into them. My condolences.
If they somehow have no grievances at all to agitate on, move onto more agitable targets to radicalize
Mostly envy
i used to be addicted to pop culture and to an extent probably still am
no one got through to me by curbing my pop culture addiction. i needed the gnawing, numb emptiness inside of me to grow beyond the joy a rebooted IP gave me. only then did i start caring about actually important shit
I have the opposite problem. I need some slop to distract me from dormers over waves hands all this
Me mindlessly playing classicwow n osrs for some semblance of community so I dont drown in a sea of chuds locally
This is pretty much every human being I see in person
What more is there to be excited about though?
There isn't much in the way of positive projects to get involved with that aren't 1) very personally dangerous or 2) hard to physically be involved with (for various reasons) or 3) by some group that is dodgy.
I feel like addicts still somewhat care about other things than their addiction, or at least want to. The ignorance aspect is like some new thing that I don’t understand