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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 22, 2011 9:53:05 GMT -5
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Post by angryfan on Jul 22, 2011 9:58:47 GMT -5
Interesting though I'd say it's not a new thing, just a new target. Psychologically, being "known" and therefore "important" has always been a desire for a high number of people. Children, as their minds tend to do, will latch onto something and become far more imprssionable then an adult.
Before their was television, there was radio and print media, and they would push the image of the famous and infamous, with children frequently immitating or desiring to be like what they saw, whether that was a good thing or not. One can look at ancient times with soldiers being held in higher esteem and there for almost certainly being emmulated by the young.
It was not the life or the hardships that were sought, it was the fame and notoriety, the feeling of "wow, I'm SOMEBODY". In the end, it all comes back to reassurance of one's own worth as an individual, and becoming "known" (for anything) is generally the easiest way to go about it.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jul 22, 2011 10:01:05 GMT -5
Yeah, it's not exactly a revelation. Doesn't make it any less true though.
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Post by King Boo on Jul 22, 2011 10:32:07 GMT -5
Before I finished reading the title I thought this was about someone saying the show Fame was better than the show Community. For a split second I wondered why they were even being compared, and then I continued reading.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2011 10:34:10 GMT -5
The whole point of TV is to sell stuff and be famous.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jul 22, 2011 11:30:58 GMT -5
The whole point of TV is to sell stuff and be famous. Now more than ever, though, in the age of the internet, the age of blogs and youtube, we've got more overt attention whores than ever all looking for their 15 minutes, as if instead of a quotable offhand remark, it was something promised to them as a birthright. |
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Post by Cela on Jul 22, 2011 12:12:18 GMT -5
Well, that makes sense if you watch the shows about kid's trying to become famous.
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Post by zeez on Jul 22, 2011 12:14:11 GMT -5
I didn't need a bunch of scientists to tell me that. Seems pretty obvious.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 22, 2011 12:46:04 GMT -5
I think it's just more interesting how seismic the shift in tone has been for stuff popular amongst kids.
Look at what they write there: even compared to 1997, not that long ago, the main lessons/values/whatever being taught to kids were radically different than they were in 2007-today.
That's the more interesting part to me.
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