COMM121: Introduction to Mass Communications

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Rebellion is a difficult thing to master.  It's almost never rebellious or unique unless you are the originator.  Just like it was said before those who patronize Hot Topic are no more a rebel than I am for shopping at a department store.  
To the left is a picture of a bar in South City, Venice Cafe.  It is most unique in every way shape and form.  This is a picture of their stairwell, which is a mosaic of mirrors, with neon lights on the ceiling.  Now if this bar was taken out of St. Louis and transplanted to San Francisco or Greenwich Village in New York, it wouldn't be anymore rebellious than owning a cell phone.  I think the idea of rebellion depends on context as much as it does on the originator of the concept.  Once it is out there, whether in clothing, music, advertising, or anything really it no longer becomes rebellious as it is just waiting to be duplicated.

1 comment:

  1. Welcome to the wide, wonderful world of textual analysis! Congrats. :-) This would be a fascinating paper topic.

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