Most views on youtube:
>Gangam style
>Wiz Khalifa
>Taylor Swift
What went wrong?
>>1214065
le wrong generation xd
Capitalism
>implying the culture of the masses has ever not been shit
>>1214065
Because it has advanced to such a degree that the most pressing issue for a lot of people (especially younger ones) are about entertainment than making a living.
As you listed Gangnam style, Korea does not belong to Western culture despite what others say but it is first world, Japan too. I can see China and some South American countries becoming like this given another 40 years or so.
Mass culture has always existed, but only in a postmodern developed economy do you see such a break of mass culture with tradition, and the consumerism that is linked with it. Oy vey I guess the jewz won after all.
Taylor Swift is everything right, pleb. Besides, it's YouTube, a medium designed around mainstream videos, what the fuck else are we supposed to watch on there? Your Lord and savior John Greene?
>>1214092
>Taylor Swift is everything right
>calling anyone else a pleb
>>1214065
In Napoleon's time, the most popular book in Europe (and remember that only the top 20% or so of the population could read at all) was "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". It was the fucking Twillight of its time, a sappy romance novel that inspired men to act like total retards and caused a huge peak in suicides.
Plebs will always have pleb taste. Gagnam style may seem unavoidable today, but so did Die Leiden des jungen Werthers at the time. Yet today, even literary critics barely known abou tthe latter.
Atheism (degeneration of the youth)
>>1214065
Western Culture
>Othello
>Lick my ass - Mozart
>Canterbury tales - the Millers tale
What went wrong?
>>1214065
industrial society/capitalism, mass-men and its logical conclusions
>>1214065
>basing your estimation of western culture on youtube videos
You went wrong
>>1214071
This. At least in it Hyper-consumerist form. Capitalism, for all its worth is a still a good system but it naturally breeds this shit because it's deemed profitable.
Jewish control of mass media.