Much of junk culture has a core of crisis - shoot-outs, conflagrations, bodies weltering in blood, naked embracers or rapist-stranglers. The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Popular culture relies heavily on extreme crisis and violence to capture attention. Moderate content struggles to compete.
- In plain terms
- Junk culture grabs attention with extreme disasters and violence.
- What can you take from it?
- Expect entertainment to favor extreme crisis over moderation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do we prefer crisis over moderation?
- What is the cost of extreme entertainment?
Another view
Not all popular culture relies on crisis; some focuses on everyday life.
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