Started watching Madmen this week. For those that haven’t heard – it’s a show set in a 60’s advertising agency.
The world of Madmen is raw and wild. Men driving to get everything. Women playing to draw them in.
Through all the ages the game is still the same: an awkward interplay between men and women.
The primal urges of men and women are a constrained façade.
Calculated self-interest leads the characters to be stripped bare.
Sure there’s moments of humanity but only when it serves someone’s purpose.
The line ‘you live alone and you die alone’ has already surfaced on the show.
When you ‘construct’ a society and bind it in rules to safeguard against an imagined threat primal urges fight and twist motives.
We are all caged animals struggling to be free.
By sharing this world we are all bound to each other.
We search for common ground, we strip away differences, we add some bubblegum.
And then we end up with Pop Culture.
Plain and simple.
You get that first sugary rush but it fades quickly.
It’s insubstantial. It is fleeting. And so you need more and more and more.
You are consumed. You are the consumer.
Welcome Pop Culture you have us all by the hand that feeds us.
We all want to be Pop Princes and Pop Princesses.
They ate, they drank, they fucked.
We got to watch;
And who lived happily ever after?
Those that treated Pop Culture as a supplement,
Not as the main, nutritious meal.
Plastic pop is merely fairy floss to free thinking.
Insubstantial, yet nostalgic;
A childhood innocence that has been subverted for gain.
Pop plays on minds like a Casanova worshipping the altar.
When you have spent your last dollar and lust on pop,
Leave the commercial shop
And be free.
Reality is the beauty of human flaws.