Global Village

A Response to Comedy Within the Global Village

               Just to start with on the title and the portion about the global village.  The global village is an inevitability when dealing with mass communication because people are quick to adapt to what is perceived as most beneficial to them.  This could be abandoning their culture to follow a new one, which is why the variety of world culture is appear to be shrinking.  The world culture doesn’t actually shrink it just changes, much like matter, culture is not destroyed just changed.  Culture is constantly changing and all the global village does is speed up the process. 

As for the humanization by global village through talk shows and the internet.  They do the opposite, the people are human and their action in life humanizes them.  The global village makes them seem larger than life or at least alien.  The first three memes on the post are excellent evidence of this.  Drake dancing makes him seem insane and distances him from humanity (despite the fact that most of us cannot dance worth a shit).  The second meme humanizes the grandfather but puts the granddaughter on a pedestal above everyone else.  The third meme does makes the girl seem like an asshole below everyone. 

The part about talk shows not taking issues serious is evidence that there is a multitude of subculture at work.  The people that want to laugh at an issue verse the people want a serious discussion.  These are wide categories to put people in that found the joking matter of Trump on The Tonight Show.  I can’t explain why some people expect a comedy show to be serious just because a president candidate is on.  The best I can figure is a subculture, maybe even a type of comedy, of people who just like being outraged.