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"To Gaga, our video-game-playing, social-networking, cell-phone-obsessed culture has made all of us smaller, more normal, less interesting—and, except for odd lightning strikes like the Jersey Shore cast and Conan O’Brien’s anointment of one Twitter fan—famous to no one, after all. "
"To Gaga, our video-game-playing, social-networking, cell-phone-obsessed culture has made all of us smaller, more normal, less interesting—and, except for odd lightning strikes like the Jersey Shore cast and Conan O’Brien’s anointment of one Twitter fan—famous to no one, after all. "
- New York Magazine, "How Lady Gaga Became the World's biggest pop-star"
what a fascinating idea!! I had been wondering, in the back of my mind, why "Jersey Shore" had become the phenomenon it is today. If I understand what the author is saying, all of this communication and networking has exposed all of us as the same as the rest of us. We all watch the same shows and wear the same clothes and read the same blogs. We are globalized. However, when a show like "Jersey Shore" comes along, we have found a group that is truly different! They talk weird! They dress strangely! Their relational drama looks a little different! It's like finding a that group of Japanese soldiers that have been marooned on an island in the South Pacific and still think that WWII is going on. Our culture is fascinated by them.
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