What is "pop culture"?

Pop culture is a shortened version of the word popular culture, meaning it is the most popular form of culture at the moment.

Pop culture has changed over the years, and as obvious as it sounds, it is a deeper change then when first looked at.

Things thay were once shunned by media and mainstream thinkers is now widely accepted as ok by everyone. Even media consumption itself has changed almost entirely. People spends lots of time on Facebook and browsing the internet. Television will still be around for a long while, but the paradigm has shifted away from one way media.

.To show how much culture has changed, let us compare two different decades. The fifties and today. Why pick the fifties? It was the decade before a lot of the stuff that happens today got is start.

In the fifties, the family paradigm was set. The wife stayed home, the kids went to school daddy worked and everyone had a suburban house. Of course this probably wasn't an accurate representation of that decade, but one can guess with TV shows at that time. Shows like leave to beaver, bonanza, little house on The prairie were on at roughly this period. What was the big threat to all this wholesomeness? Communism. That's right, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin violent revolution, kill people who didn't agree with you communism.

"Better dead than red" was a motto back at that time. And so our portrait of that time is complete. The united states with it's fully induced judeo Christian culture was fighting a cold war against another huge super power who was basically portrayed as evil. No internet, only newspaper's and the burgeoning TV industry.

Fast toward to today. Memes, TV, the internet, texting, Facebook, Twitter and a host of other sites. Society seems almost to have a running commentary on what is happening at the moment. Political campaigns are almost still the same, with ads that are ment to evoke emotions and violent cords in our brains. In todays work, as things become more and more gray in ideals, the religions of yesterday struggle to keep up with ideas such transhimanism, cybernetics, cloning, the internet, space travel and a host of other things. Our culture seeks to polarize its self to see any kind of black and white, but there is no such luck.

Has our society lost its way? Have we gone astray? What does the future hold, tell me in the comments.