Week 1- Cobb, Chapter 1 (Popular Culture):

Images, language, symbols, these are all contributors to our Western civilization currently and has actually been on the rise in recent years, but as Cobb suggested, Walt Disney, was the frontrunner in the imagination of one's status or perspective in life during The Depression. What is it that we are attracted to in our culture? Sure, we see things that catch our eye, something that may look appetizing to fill our stomachs, and the list goes on, but what is that we strive after to simply live life? He suggested culture as a way of life. He suggests that, "Each culture in the world are self-contained, coherent, homogenous, functioning organisms driven by its own peculiar genius." I would disagree that culture is simply an organism just functioning or self-contained. I don't think we just function, I think we (culture) adapt, change, multiply, reinvent, and live. Yes we live in a culture that exists, but do we want to just function driven by intelligence? Do we have a choice? Can we live in a culture or as Cobb describes "functioning in culture," with images that warrant our decision-making?