"When the forms if an old culture are dyingm the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure"
Rudolph Bahro, quoted in The Post Evangelical
Why study Popular Culture?
- Popular culture is related to Movies, music, and television, this are the primary form of disseminating values, ideas, and ethics.
- Popular culture serves as way of comunication of hte postmodern world.
Popular Culture both reflects who we are as people and also helps shape us as people. The implications if both factors are profund. We have participated in number of conversations about whether popular culture shapes public ideas or merely acts as a mirror reflecting our ideas back to us.
Culture was created for God, this should be a reason enough to study it , Postmodernism reflect it ideals and values through the media, the popular culture which is directly influence to the youth no matter if they are part of the church or if they are not, it still been a strong influence.
To know what it is Popular Culture about would help us to understand the new process for which youth in this time is going through, confronting difficult transition from adolecens to adulthood, creating a tension in the teen's creating questions like who i am? and what is my place in the world?
Postmodernism created a status of indivituation, where confront the youth we the picture of the thinking proces in order to formulate a desicion which could affect the rest of his life, this pression ( internal and external ) is affected for what they hear and see in the media that surrownded. we need to be aware of what happend in our around, in our comunity, it doesn't matter how many theory we may know, but if we dont know how to apply it to our daily life, it would be unworthy.
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Hi Felipe,
I would agree that all things are created by God. However, due to sin entering our world, most elements of creation operate in a fallen, unredeemed state. This is true of natural creation, but it is also true of that which we manufacture in our culture.
If popular culture is like a giant megaphone that amplifies and accelerates messages we wish to communicate, then those messages can either amplify and accelerate both that which is good and that which is bad.
On another note, in many ways, pop culture is like Jesus parable of the wheat and the tares: the good and the bad coexist. Something which seems really good can have some dangerous qualities to it and some things which we might think are unredeemable have some inherently good aspects to them.
I think an appropriate metaphor for a youth worker is like a nature guide that walks through a path that has many berries. Some are edible and others are poisonous. It is the role of the youth worker to begin to learn a lot about what berries are good and which are poisonous so that you can advise your fellow sojourners what they can eat.
Just some thoughts.
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