Blog 6

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.


Throughout our society I have seen a lot of changes but some I am not sure I would contribute to popular culture.   I believe that one of the big changes in society and the way people behave would be how healthy we are.    Due to many images in pop culture there are many more cases of eating disorders.   Many girls are trying to be like the models and stars they see on billboards and in movies, but what someone forgot to tell them is that many of those people are sick.   Other people are not suffering with anorexia and/or bulimia but obsessive over eating.   This is because society tells us that the more accessible something is the better so the drive thru was one of the greatest inventions ever.    More is never enough.   Look at RJ in "Over the Hedge."  He had to take not just enough food from the bear to survive, but everything including the "Spudies."   This is the average American.   There is never enough.   We work to buy stuff because the one with the most stuff wins.  This goes for food as well so now we have an absurd amount of obese people.   So due to pop culture and its effect on people, has two groups of people, the obese and the morbidly skinny.  We are now an unhealthy society.