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Pop culture. Pop culture like a balloon. Pop culture before it exlodes all over your face. What used to be culture is not culture anymore. We are the culture for we buy into the race that has become our culture. We buy into it because it’s popular and God forbid - we don’t want to be unpopular. Even if you think you are alternative, you’re not. There are new branches of culture everywhere you look - the hipsters: (“Oh bow down for we are the chosen ones. Smell our breath; it’s a mixture of mint and Africano, a new iced coffee blend from a place you probably haven’t heard of.”) Fret not for also we offer greetings to the ambiguous astronauts, the transistor radio heads, the veggie slashers, the sideshow jugglers, the photoshopaholics, the discoteched malpip moegoes, the commercial hippies, the sleaze queens and the retro pioneers. Welcome to the future of liquidised fusion. Welcome to the melting pot that we all call the Mother City, step inside and smell the coffee, it’s confusing, but you can drink it.

The retrograde is morphing and becoming the future-istik. We are generation R, we are the remix generation. We live in a quantum soup where yesterday is colliding with tomorrow faster than the speed a single tweet.

The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. For students starting a 2 year diploma half of what they learn in the first year will be outdated by the second year of study. It’s estimated that 4 exabytes (one quintillion bytes, or 10 to the power of 18) of unique information will be generated this year. That’s more than the previous 5000 years. 43% of what I am saying now will be outdated by next week Wednesday. It feels fucking fantastic to be a part of a global ADHD village. If you haven’t lost the plot yet, don’t worry, you will. The plot is obsolete.

We are the script writers of the future, the directors of masses, the followers of the few, the hunters of scapegoats as we light the way into the perilous dusk. In the past, present and future we will remain the lead actors in our own screenplays. Somehow we need to weave our scripts together to create a future where egos play the supporting role. Popular culture needs to become inclusive rather than exclusive. Popular culture should be a party where everyone is invited. Rock on.