Do thigns that become popular in this world loose or deminish in vaule? I think truely original and beautiful things can never really deminish in their cultural significance. Though it is the millions of off shoots or carbon copies of said thing that cheapens that particular object. That does not nessarly make those things bad, it just makes them less unique. In a way I suppose that may skew the perception of the original object, but that comes down to what a person thinks rather than truth, and some people might say that imitation is the best form of flattery.
The artist is never really in control of his/her art. They can try and envoke a certain message in their work that they want to get across, but in the end it comes down to what that individual at that time ges out of that, and there is no way to control that. In other cases, once something does become popular and everyone likes it, then the message it may hav ebeen directing to is now being told to not just that specific group, but everyone which people may see as diminishing the message.
All in all, when something becomes popular I hate when people say it is a bad thing, and that things become lame or loose what it was all about. How did it become popular in the firs tplace then? What is wrong for liking a song/movie/or anything pop culture related and connecting with that along with a someone else you might not expect. The people dicide what pop culture is, nd though once we all decide on the next big thing and then the market becomes flooded with it, for a moment we were all moved by something original and beautiful.
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CC: A strong set of points to say the least. You're moving into later theories of cultural studies here with your focus on the individual too. (that's good)
In your opening point, you state that beautiful things can't diminish in cultural significance- but don't you think that happens all the time? And, how exactly are the carbon copies diluting the message? Aren't they just spreading the message to more people and increasing their cultural significance? :EE
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