Pop culture mass-prodded mass media
everywhere, everyday, every how.
Television, focal point of every room
gossiped about, read about, fantasized about
more than real life, a community of electrons, coolly bumping and moving
to lull the brain asleep. Music, top 40, top seller, a million gold broken records playing into the nigh time jukebox real player while the band plays on.
 Magnetic tape wrapped and fused against a laser cd player. The film is real, those people on the big screen videotape are real, all the actors of the world in every performance, every role are real because life has ceased to be. It left on a train to California and was hijacked by a video game.
The latest, the newest, all obsolete by the end of the week.
So why bother to listen, to watch, to view, to consume? The next big thing is just on the way, so why not try and save money and brain cells and wait, so impossible, so disgraceful to fall behind on the times, the latest show, the latest tune. Obey or be
lost at the water cooler lineup.

The underbelly of media, the subversity of comic books, foreign films and CBC after the dish ran away with the spoon. The things rarely heard about until
a parents' group, a censor or somebody with too much time on their hands decides it is pornographic, obscene or they just don't understand, so thus it must be bad and must be banned. But that is interesting--the distrust of humans to make up their own &*(*&%&^% minds, censorship of the unusual because it is not Normal,or polite, scary stuff.  Baraka,  a smoke filled bar, the sound track of life and G.G.Allen, while  a talented professional geek chews on a beer bottle and the contortionist plays cards with a woman who had a nose job, tummy tuck, facelift ........
How can  gay erotica be banned when Baywatch warped people worse than that media ever could?
There is no freedom. True, some things are disgustingly horrific,
but so is a traffic accident involving decapitation.
Remember children, if it were true the public is in control of the media they consumed,  there would be no need for censorship because the public would censor  themselves. Why would there be a need for v-chipped internet access if parents actually watched their kids? Playing to the lowest common denominator and losing control of anything beyond a sitcom-approved medium.
Life is not polite
not all the things we have to do are pretty.
Remember, the human imagination can create far worse images than what is stopped at the border.

Tribal groupings, herds in malls and taverns, crying in city apartment blocks and wandering drunkenly or gossiping with the grrrlfriends at coffee. The gangs perform drivebys while a rehearsal takes place for Hamlet at the opera house.
Life moves, life changes.
Media refects life and culture.

One day the culture, media and life will be one.
One day nothing will be shocking, or there will be no choices left.
One day society will beat its fullest potential and everything will be better than anyone can hope for-- freedom, intelligence, beauty and life.......
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