Pop-culture reflects the most current interest and trends in society. The current trend in America is to try to create a way to make things easier. In an attempt to do this we have actually made things harder. Ellen DeGeneres humorously describes this in her essay “This is How We Live”. The part about trying to open the CD package really cracked me up! This has long been a pet peeve of mine. Why, in America do we package things like this?? Ellen affirms that this trend has created lazy people. She states, “Modern life requires hardly any physical activity. We just push a button and stand there.” (638) Instead of getting out and enjoying the sunshine and getting some exercise, we are now sitting on our butts watching what next current trend may come our way.
Steven Johnson argues that games are actually good for you in the essay "Everything Bad is Good for You: Games". Johnson challenges us to "Imagine an alternate world identical to ours save one change: Video games were invented and popularized before books." Would pop-culture simply work in reverse then? Or, as DeGeneres affirms, will we keep trying to create ways to make things easier. Will we get so lazy that even the effort to push the buttons on the controllers is too much? Will we make controllers that are mind controlled? Seriously, aren't they already starting to do this kind of stuff for medical purposes?
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