Is it possible that we'll see a cultural shift back to straight edged cultural homogeny? Maybe even more so than we've ever seen before thanks to the internet age. Will we get sick of being disorganised and feeling lost that we'll search for a coherent and consistent form of cultural organisation at the expense of creativity and expression?
Millions of ideas and trends are created every day, but only a select few survive natural selection and go in the direction of the vein of the cultural machine turning it's enormous wheels. So who knows what the next move will be.
Can one ever truly know what we desire? or are we doomed to have our desires sold and marketed to us by marketing coorporations. Maybe that's why its so lucrative. ITs difficult to know what we desire and as such, its a whole lot easier to be told what we want instead.
How has the content driven nature of the Internet served to decrease the general populations awareness of issues derived from corporate activities and allowed a smokescreen for large multinationals to operate without scrutiny
Oh how the internet has driven a stake into the ground, an impact that has fractured the social cohesion that was percieved in the 60s and 70s. There is little to no more unity in geographic social fabrics, because people have been able to get more connection and validation from people over the internet and through social media. One has an easier time finding people with similar views, but the tradeoff to that is that it has undermined the way that the social and political systems functions in the real world. Local politics suffer from the comparative nature of social media and seeing that state of affairs in other municipalities and areas. As individuals we are now more informed than ever about what is going on across the globe, but for most this comes at the sacrifice of the awareness of what is occurring in their local politics. Is this escapism from the difficulty of implementing meaningful changes locally, or the vulnerability and courage that it takes to try and take a genuine public stance on these sorts issues.
Then again, there could be a romantic notion about the way people acted back then (50s, 60s, 70s). From what I understand of that time, there was opression and ignorance of different social communities that didn't fall into the mainstream. The is also the reality of the homogeny of the popular culture and the impact that it had on the general population (at least in the USA). The idea that cable news and that diffusion of information were the only wide scale and consistent sources of what was happening in the world.