Pop culture is manipulative
In the article This Is How We Live written by Ellen DeGeneres, it is said that technology is hurting us (DeGeneres, 638). Technology manipulates us to make us lazy. She picks some examples of microwave, just a few minutes can make a Hot Pocket, and car window, just push a button then the window open automatically. “Modern life requires hardly any physical activity”, DeGeneres adds it.
I can see what is happening in the modern life, pop culture, modern technology makes us lazy and lack of physical activities. Another example is remote control of television, or any electronic devices. I just sit down on my sofa and look up some my favorite channels by pushing the button channel on my remote control.
There is a positive side in the technology that it makes our life easier and more comfortable.
Pop culture reflects the most current interests and trends in a society
When I read Everything Bad Is Good for You: Games, written by Steven Johnson, he put criticisms about video games that the most current interest and trend in society. He says, “Imagine an alternate world identical to ours save one change: Video games were invented and popularized before books” (Johnson, 461).
Video games make people get addicted with it. It corrupts times for reading and learning. I agree with Johnson that the virtues of gaming run far deeper than hand-eye coordination (Johnson 464).
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