04-18-2018, 06:58 PM
I'm fascinated by this subject.
As an amateur anthropologist with no training I wonder about what we call 'Pop-Culture'.
How do 'primitive' tribes thrive with the same ten, fifteen, twenty-five traditional songs/dances for hundreds of years while 'developed' cultures are compelled to make thousands of 'New' songs/dances.
I'm going to skip the whole 'exposure/trade' thing here and jump to the subject of this thread.
Why are remakes of decades-old tropes getting traction?
Why are there reboots of "Planet of the Apes", "Battlestar Galactica", "Westworld" ?
I've talked to people (translate 'Millennials') who do not realize 'Westworld' is a reboot.
My conclusion is that Hollywood has tapped into a common thread. They are luring in Baby-boomers with nostalgia, and generating new Milleninal fans with a tried-and-true formula about risk and redemption.
So, basically, we are primitive peoples enjoying variations of our traditional rituals but not ready to embrace new beliefs.
As an amateur anthropologist with no training I wonder about what we call 'Pop-Culture'.
How do 'primitive' tribes thrive with the same ten, fifteen, twenty-five traditional songs/dances for hundreds of years while 'developed' cultures are compelled to make thousands of 'New' songs/dances.
I'm going to skip the whole 'exposure/trade' thing here and jump to the subject of this thread.
Why are remakes of decades-old tropes getting traction?
Why are there reboots of "Planet of the Apes", "Battlestar Galactica", "Westworld" ?
I've talked to people (translate 'Millennials') who do not realize 'Westworld' is a reboot.
My conclusion is that Hollywood has tapped into a common thread. They are luring in Baby-boomers with nostalgia, and generating new Milleninal fans with a tried-and-true formula about risk and redemption.
So, basically, we are primitive peoples enjoying variations of our traditional rituals but not ready to embrace new beliefs.