Ethnic Suburbian
Scotch, Hip-Hop and the Art of Curiosity
Helping to develop a new branch of psychology, and a local professor exposes what it means to find lifelong happiness.
On a recent podcast, author Chuck Klosterman asked an important but ostensibly silly question, “If you watch ‘Saved by the Bell’ in 2011, do you enjoy it because you’re entertained, or do you enjoy it ironically?” I don’t know the answer. So much of American pop culture, particularly in the life of young people, intertwines itself with our identity. The connection becomes so tight that its difficult to separate something objectively enjoyable from something pseudo-nostalgic. Loving “Saved by the Bell” in spite of and because of it’s faults, represents one example of this phenomena. So the real question is: when we enjoy something, why do we enjoy it? *** A teacher of mine once said that learning takes place in three stages: first it’s …
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