Reflections on the Contemporary Popular Culture

Popular culture strikes our country intensely, and the consumption of culture has always become a kind of fashion. There is profound social and economic reason. The society of money and economy forms the commodity property of culture. But popular culture is not ordinary commodity. As a kind of culture form, it also has a kind of ideology function. The consumption of popular culture deconstructes much primal value in traditional culture and our cognizant spirit demand. Whether it is seen as a word power or a manner of existance, the popular culture embodies its realism character. It is popular life logic, but not cultural logic that determines the development direction of popular culture. Popular culture embodies the taste of popular life, and it deconstructs relentlessly the utopia world of culture.