Four Harsh Truths It's Time To Accept About Modern Pop Culture

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Simon Pegg recently caught a ton of shit for having the audacity to wonder aloud whether grown-ass men and women deeply devoting their lives to nerdy pursuits is maybe not the best thing. It's not really that controversial of a thing to say, but when the story was picked up by the likes of such formally reputable news outlets as CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, all hell broke loose.

What's most frustrating about the story is the people who didn't already know this about modern pop culture. It should have been intuitive. We should all have been born into the pop culture landscape knowing all of this will now and forever be kid stuff. Kid stuff that helps us feel happy and cope with a harsh world, but kid stuff nonetheless. It got me thinking: What else don't people already intuitively understand about pop culture? The short answer is "a lot of things," but if you were interested in brevity, you definitely wouldn't be reading Cracked right now.

So with that in mind, let's begin this educational seminar by laying a little groundwork, and understanding that...

 

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What are your thoughts on Pegg's views?

Is there something that you enjoyed as a kid but as an adult realized it wasn't so great?

[Chris 2,169]

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#3: Your Nostalgia Overshadows The True Quality Of The Things You Love

Boy isn't that the truth. 

Several years ago a tv channel was running repeats of "Land Of The Lost" and I thought it would be fun to spend an hour or two watching it. Man was I wrong. 

What a hokey show that was in hindsight. 

Same goes for cartoons such as "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" which we recently watched an episode of. What a stinker. And you realize that these cartoons, "He Man and The Masters Of The Universe" is a great example, were nothing more than half hour ads for the newest toys to be released. 
 

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It is a kind of dumbing down, in a way, because it’s taking our focus away from real-world issues. Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about … whatever.

Now we’re walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk just had a fight with a robot.

 

What the hell is wrong with that?

Perhaps now more than ever, we are inundated with the problems that surround us, from 24 hour news stations to social media. So what's wrong with a little break from reality, and perhaps immersing ourselves in another universe for a little escapist fun?

[Hal 341]

Gotta go with ya on that last statement! We all need a place to “escape / avoid “ the World around us that presses our heads full of doom and gloom and yes the hi-jinx of the political aristocracy and Hollywood celebrities.
So for that little bit of time we can be somewhere away from it , wether its watching old shows from childhood , collecting “toys “ action figures or 🤔other things that give us enjoyment !