Assignment 1: Review

I think the most prevalent aim in pop culture is pleasure. Actually think? No I know it's pleasure. Think about any rap and R&B song from biggie small's to Jay Z. Strippers, booties bouncin', poppin' bottles in the ice, drugs, clothes, money money money. It's all pleasure. Even in country music, pleasure from sittin' on the front porch swing to sexy tractors.  We all love pleasure, in any form, but i believe the Hindu aim of pleasure was much different than what we experience today.

I wasn't surprised to find that thinking and finding songs that fall into the pleasure category would be much easier then community service. Especially as an American culture we are much more self absorbed and selfish than many other cultures. Pleasure in the hindu aim would have been pleasure from reflecting on the positive aspects of the world, spring showers, summer evenings, ect. For us it's about pay day and sex, for the most part. As for liberation and community service, i believe community service is very similar, however, with american pop culture it's more of saying the doing and it's on a global scale. Liberation for us is more along the lines of women moving on from a cheating boyfriend or a star liberating themselves from the media. Liberation for a Hindu would be more like liberation from negativity.