Today we discussed how popular culture media might be making us smarter, stupider, nicer, meaner, healthier, unhealthier, gentler, and more aggressive. In your blog post, address which of these changes to human behavior you believe to be the strongest in modern society as a result of popular culture media. Make sure you explain your answer and include examples.
Technology is really the pioneer for human advancments. It has mades its way into everyones pockets, and is constantly feeding information. This has not only helped popular culture but it has created it. Allowing a constant flow of information at the price of a finger tap. This has pushed society to be impatient and more complex. These tools we have made help us everyday but have led to society to think everything should be right infront of them. If we cant constantly be doing multiple things, we dont do anything at all. People have taken technology and made it so apart of thier lives that, it has been became just a distraction. Most people dont use technology for a meanigful purpose, usually to let the world know how they are feeling or to look at the newest youtube video. As more and more people reach out into this networking, thats more and more people wasting thier time. Not everyone is using technology to waste thier time, but i feel like a majority of society is.
There was a time in the 1950s where the government was concerned that comic books were going to bring down American civilization as we know it. People thought they wasted time and led young men to contemplate lewd acts. Sometimes I wonder if the internet is just the modern version of comic books, and we're just finding a new way of doing the same old time-wasting thing, or if it is really different.
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