Why are we becoming so uncultured?

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Americans are culture-less bastards. Most people don't care about the world around them. Hell, in a college environment, you can't get anyone to go to anything unless you add food to the advertisement. I've seen things in my fridge have more culture than the students here at BRCC and everywhere else in the community. Art openings are wonderful, but take food out of the equation and few come. Take out the alcohol and you might as well kiss it goodbye. American culture is dying and its own people are the cause. We only care about the latest craze in cell phones or what slut on the silver screen had for lunch. What about authors, artists, history? Why is this disappearing? Why is our interest in reading declining at such a rapid rate? So what if you have a job that works you to the bone 72 hours a day? is it so much to see what your surroundings are degenerating into? Intolerance, stupidity, ambivalence, and worse, antipathy are flowing through our blood more thickly than the fats from McDonald's. When did you last go see a play or listen to a local band that wasn't the current popular thing? Why is culture only stereotyped into being solely for "professionally cultured" persons (artists, scholars, wealthy, eccentrics, etc.)? I challenge anyone who reads this to go out and look at your community and your world. I dare you to look at the destitute schools, the decrepit museums, the damn near mummified libraries and see where your apathy is heading us.

Fuck the uncultured. It's your fault you're an idiot. Don't bring me down to your level because I know the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Fuck you all who cannot fucking spend thirty minutes to go to a concert or watch a musical but can spend a fucking hour looking and the God damned Paris Hilton Porn Video. Don't give me that "it's boring" bull shit either. It's boring because you let it be. You're too fucking afraid to get into it and be ridiculed by the uncultured fucks known as your peers.

I dare you to go and watch.

This, by the way, is about the countless things I try to do to help better my community and the selfish bastards who just want it done and don't try to even lift a finger in the general direction of the posibility of maybe condering the abstract consept of thinking to help their community.
 
If you want to get 'techincal' about it. No matter how you look at it your Community College and America, we are 'cultured' to a certain extent. Just because I don't listen to an opera or go to a musical concert doesn't mean that I'm not cultured. I will however...go to a heavy metal concert, mosh in the mosh pit, smoke weed, drink beer, have sex, and then complain about my government. Want to know why? Because that is a part of my culture. What kind of culture is that you ask? My kind...the only kind suit for my lifestyle. If I wanted to be a pussy-foot cultured son of a bitch like every lilly-pad jumping ball sucker out there, I would go to a Figaro play and beat off to Richard Simmons videos.

Just because someone doesn't share the same taste in 'culture' as you call it, doesn't mean they aren't 'cultured'.

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The "Culture" is simply changing into mindless work slaves who entertain themsevles by getting drunk, taking "legal" mood altering drugs, not thinking, and watching 98347744 channels of TV.

Ahhhhh the Future.... can't you just smell it?
 
The Community College thing was just an example. I volunteer and try to help my community a lot and see so few people. It's depressing and angering. LSU (near where I work) has its clubs, but the vast majority of the students are still ambivalent. The best hing to happen to my area was a website that told people when community events are held. Even then, most of our population here doesn't care.

98347744 is a crap ton of channels and I think people would have heart attacks trying to flip through them all. I think 98347743 would suffice. :tongue:
 
Considering that I live maybe 50 miles from you, and know the LSU area well, I think you're either blind or crazy. There are all kinds of bands playing, plays, festivals and things going on around campus. Ever bothered to go down to Chimes? Ever been to the Little Theater? There is a lot of culture in that area, I think you're just caught up on it not being Renaissance art, opera culture, which imo, only paints you out to be a pretty close minded person.

And fyi, the college generation has its own culture. Granted it may not be the musical, art appreciative culture you'd like to see but it's culture all the same.

Let me guess, you took a few art and music classes, so now you think everyone should be as 'cultured' as you, right?
 
There are bands, plays, and festivals, but the vast majority of the general public as well as students do not go to these plays and things unless there is free food or alcohol to be had. I enjoy the "classic" stuff, but that is by no means my only inclusion in my rant. I also have been helping the community before my "few art classes" and have been trying to get everyone to see the world around them. I volunteer like crazy to get people to enjoy many of the events.

And if you want to mention the plays, did you know that LSU has a "class" that practically gives you college credit to go see many of the plays so that they will have a bolstered number of participants?

Ever been to White Light Night? No more than a few people interested in the art, the rest go to Circa to get Schnackered (which is a fun word to say by the way). I see this all the time. The downtown district has many fun folk art events that get filled for an hour then become barren in just a few moments. They have public concerts that a "whopping" 100 to 200 people go to over a wide period, not including those who repeatedly visit (A.K.A. "Live After Five", Remember?). The list goes on. The Big Read (you know, the community reading program? The book for Baton Rouge is To Kill a Mockingbird, if you're interested) does not get the recognition it deserves save about a ten second mention of it on NPR. That is a program to have EVERY person have a common interest and say "hi" to their fellow neighbor. These are just a few of the programs ignored that I'm referring to, not solely some Titian or Van Gogh exhibit at the museum (thought to see real Titians would be nice, I think).

Just because a person is appalled at what is happening to America's culture doesn't mean they just took a pottery 101 or whatever and decided to get active. There are people who try to help all the time. I’d volunteer across Southern Louisiana if it weren't for my job and school. Even with thirty hours a week at my job and an 18 hour semester, I find time to enjoy the community around me, so don't start acting like just because some bar has music that our city is instantly cultured and cares about its community.
 
So your saying that America is non-cultured because 80% of the population in any given city might not go watch a play because of no free food/alcohol?

You can't base culture solely on entertainment. If I were to become cultured to your standards, I think I would look something like Shakespeare in drag. Culture is people, food, music, art, tattoos, drugs, cars...etc.

I understand exactly what your getting at here. I just think your base argument is a little shallow since your only using Music and Fine Arts as a basis.
 
That's like saying someone is stupid for finding opera boring, or nascar boring, etc. You're just trying to force your opinions into others and, sorry, no matter how hard you try, not everyone is going to think like you do or enjoy the same things you do.

Don't get me wrong; I enjoy theater, arts, music as much as anyone. However, I don't think someone is a lesser being just because they'd rather go get drunk and dance at a clud rather than go see Stomp with me. That's part of what makes people great; they're not all the same.
 
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