Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Trying to write

It's amazing how little one can accomplish when one is not in the mood. One may sit and stare at one's screen, one may attempt to try various creativity-boosting techniques one has been taught by one's teachers when one was in elementary school, one may ask one's friends for topic ideas for one's paper, but if one is not in the mood, there is a good chance one will not overcome one's writing block in any way one is proud of. One may always be able to spend one's time writing a poorly constructed, uninteresting paper or post describing one's inability to press oneself into one's schoolwork, but in the end, one will have to wait until one feels more in one's element to attack one's assignment.

Any ideas on a topic to argue about pop culture? I mean, really...what is there to convince anyone of about pop culture? It's one of those things. No matter what you say about 'should', there will always be an 'is' that's nearly the polar opposite. Even trying to argue people should stop saying should about pop culture is a 'should' about something that will always be an 'is'. Pop culture will always be a horrible and immoral thing (cf. Porter 1934), and people will always cry out for its change while purchasing clothes, magazines and music from the second-newest fad (which now happens to be high culture).

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