1. Popular culture is dangerous because it is seductive and superficially clever. I started using Netflix a decade ago, watching “Family Guy” or “Archer”, and so on in a detached and superior way. “Of course, I know better than this. It’s funny and ironic to do this.”
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2. The problem is—this became more apparent when I cut popular culture out—that these “clever” entertainments cannot really be consumed safely, anymore than you can eat sweets without gaining weight. They jade and vulgarise a person. They also trivialise life.
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3. I used to go to classical music concerts etc. as well, a bit like a person who eats fruit and vegetables to balance out chocolate cake. But, as with diet, what you cut out is more important than what a person consumes.
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4. Figures like Zizek are dangerous in this regard, because they made me feel that doing something stupid was clever. It is clever to mix Lacan, Marx, and the latest action film. But that doesn’t make the action film itself clever.
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5. And, in fact, most of popular culture contains fairly harmful or questionable messages—essentially consumerist in nature. These are packaged with a little more sophistication than an advert, but not that much more.
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