There are elements of those things I get obsessed about that tend to drive me completely nuts. Take TV for example. I have such a love/hate fascination with pop culture. One minute I can try to enjoy an episode of a sitcom, the next minute I find the audience laughter worse than nails on a chalk board. Reality programming perks me up for a few seconds, but I quickly feel it all being the same and uninteresting. Music video channels are great, but it can get as sugary as commercial radio, except the pictures make it just that much more painful.
I blame a lot of it on education. It’s something anyone should keep in mind when they come to college with a media studies track on their mind. Quite honestly, it’s a lot of fun to sit around class rooms and talk about the social impact of television and radio, but nothing seems the same when you take your favorite television show and are forced to write an eight page paper about it regarding some deeply ethical topic you examined in class. This can be applied to many aspects of study, but we’re talking about entertainment here.
Of course, all this is done to enlighten you to different ideas and theories that otherwise wouldn’t be considered unless you were stuck in a room listening to such things. Once it’s there, the bad taste left in your mouth takes a lot of time to get rid of.