User blog comment:Piplupower/song of awesomeness/@comment-3485538-20101026015553/@comment-3028058-20101026050808

A few things....

1. Technology (ie. Riding horses versus driving cars) isn't really what I was referring to when I said culture. 2. Wikia is just a way for people to communicate and spread information, just like the press was, and before that, the scriptora (rooms full of monks who would spend everyday copying down books by hand). 3. I'll tell you exactly how Lady Gaga is destroying American culture. Her decadent, frilly, ditzy, ooh lala aura and style that defines her is starting to become a sort of standard for young girls who see the flashy music videos and say "Yeah I wanna be like her". This isn't just Lady Gaga, I was just using her as an example standing for flashy pop artists in general, including Britney Spears among others. It spreads this message of material importance and physical appearance and attraction that completely undermines the general idea of morality and what is truly important in life. It's turning the next generation into a pile of fruit cakes who can't think for themselves and have absolutely no sense of non-tangible good. That's how Lady Gaga is ruining American culture. 4. I don't like that 'gangster' rap at all, although it's not fair to stereotype like that either. Its not just the rappers, its the environment they grew up in (some, those who grew up in rather poor conditions in dangerous neighborhoods) that influenced their style and their behavior. In my honest opinion, your environment accounts for 30% of your behavior. 5. Where are you getting that from in the first place? Did you just make that up?