Pop Culture

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It's difficult to avoid pop culture, but as I get older I find I'm ever less engaged with it. Part of that is just aging. As we get older, we are less interested in the most recent happenings. I'm not sorry about it.

Every few months I "discover" a movie or a musician that I hadn't noticed before and the discovery gives me joy. Only it turns out they were popular five years ago. That's ok with me. You can get too interested in things that aren't really important and waste time and energy thinking about them.

Nonetheless, if you are on the internet at all, you probably end up recognizing names and faces and knowing facts about them that you don't need to know. It just shows up in your feed.

Like the British royal family, for instance. I'm in the US. We don't even have a royal family yet I find myself knowing things about them. You can't unlearn it.