I'm considering popularity and how relative it is to prosperity.
2010 was so Avante Garde. Everything was so 'Now', so hip. If you had a little black dress, you may as well have slipped into a sandwich board with the word 'TURD' emblazoned across it in unfashionable ink. However, if you were the owner of an LBD, the world was your oyster, that's a winner, that's what puts you at the top of Heat Magazines Party list. I'm sorry, I will re-phrase. That is just an abbreviation of the first one. I am suddenly cast into the depths of unpopularity because of an abbreviation (that and other things).
In all seriousness, that has to be the 2010 shining example of Lowest Common Denominator Creativity. If you adhere to it you LOL yourself off the end of a PIER.
So, kids, did you know that you can become famous today. No need to wait. We have now reached the PayDay lending era of media interest. Who needs expression of culture. You can scrape your inspiration from the same barrel that MTV uses, post it on YouTube, and BINGO, you're an artist. Think big children. You too can have a dream, a fragrance, a line of stationary. I myself am perched on my seats edge waiting for the Katona Nicotine Patch. It kills cravings and all sense of optimism for humanity. Thats a bargain.
Let's all briefly side step. To all young people, E4 sarcasm machines, emulating every craze as it two-steps its way towards your face through the flatscreen, please allow me to impart a 'totally random' fact.
Wolfgang Mozart was composing music by the age of 5. He was called to Royal court in Salzburg for his outstanding musical ability at the age of 17.
I'm sorry if I'm boring you, I hope you can all stay awake long enough for the next Britains Got Talent audition. However be warned, everyone and their bloody sister can Street Dance. Not everyone can play the piano or the violin.
I know I'm all boring and out of touch kids, don't worry Cowells cruising in his Maybach looking for you right now. Don't listen to me.
Success minus the cubic zirconia, although not heavily publicised, is obtainable. The Times Man of the Year 2010 is 26 years old. He's the CEO of Facebook. I know saying the word Facebook will conjure up the exciting ideas of Apps and Pokes, but let me take the fun out as I do. The Times Man of the Year is a 26 year old Computer Scientist and Software developer. His brain is the basis of his achievements. Salvador Dali created the Persistence of Memory in his 20's.
The two seem to have no cohesion in terms of their achievements. However, if you look from a different angle you will hopefully get my point. Popularity and prosperity is in essence about a focus on your craft. It is about obtaining a depth of knowledge on your chosen craft. Modern media fame has no framework that you can understand and learn from, because there is no lesson, no degree in 'Cool'. The two I have mentioned are different but the same. A dedication to art is parallel to a dedication to Mathematics and Technology as there is beauty in both if that is what choose as your passion.
The young entrepreneurs/creative thinkers are the revolutionary minds. However they choose to enter the history books, they will be there. They will be, in a technological age, what your children read about. Not because they are cool or wear neon, but because, through media hype and Heat front covers, the brilliant minds win out in the end. They always will. Zuckerberg, Dali and Mozart will be there.
As much as the tabloid nation tries to up heave them and replace all sense of history and culture with NDubz and Delusions of Grandeur Factor, the easy access fame will never floor intelligence and complex aspiration.
2011 approaches.
Over and Out.
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