Does Our Era Have Something to Call Our Own?

Truthfully, I do not believe that our era has our own genre or something that we can call our own. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly being bombarded by companies and businesses that are telling us how to look and act. I feel as though there is no room to be unique or different than others, even if we wanted to. I do think that everyone is different in their own way, but we tend to all fall into a similar category of our society. We can hardly think on our own because day in and day out, we are being told what is socially acceptable. However, some people do tend to rebel our culture through the way they dress and/or through different types of music. Just like in the movie, teens were interested in “IPC” because MTV hadn’t taken it over yet and teens could “call the band their own”. While many teens seem to want to call something their own, it seems that it is near impossible to actually do so. With the media constantly showing and telling us what we should think and do, it has become a true challenge to call something our own. Everything has been handed to us so even if we wanted to be different; there would not be much room to be unique. This is the sad reality to what our society has become. Imagine when our grandparents were teens and how much room they had to be whoever they wished to be. Now, with all the media down our backs, we have no other choice but to go along with what everyone else is doing.