Romance, like sales, is a persuasive process. Sales is persuasion for money. Romance is persuasion for love.
From a male perspective, the romantic process usually proceeds as follows: guy meets gal and develops feelings for her; consequently, he sets out to have her fall in love with him; his ultimate aim being that they end up together. For how long depends.
This togetherness might be of the boyfriend/girlfriend variety, the husband/wife variety or something less long term.
Romance is not for the fainthearted. It can be tough stuff. Think about romance in the context of its persuasive cousin, sales. Many people do not go into sales because they believe they're not good verbal communicators. Still more individuals avoid sales because they do not feel comfortable being "pushy." [Good sales people are not pushy, but let's leave that for another article.]
More than anything else, the majority of individuals do not go into sales - or stay in the selling profession- because they cannot deal with the frequent rejection the sales process typically engenders.
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What is pop-culture? No doubt, various sociology texts have attempted to define the term. I will take a stab at deciphering its meaning. To begin with, pop-culture is an abbreviation of the term "popular culture." Defining this concept demands we understand its components.
In the context we are examining, "popular" signifies that a thing or person is in fashion or well liked by a significant portion of society, at a given point in time. That point in time being now. What is popular one year may well be out of fashion the next. "Culture" refers to the things a given group believes, how it behaves and what it tends to focus on.
Consequently, pop-culture refers to the things and people in society that are in fashion with a goodly portion of the population. This applies to such areas as music, art, literature, cinema, television, clothing, the Web, etc. Most painlessly, pop-culture embodies what's "in."
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The other day I'm having a rambling conversation with a friend. You know, those talks where you start on one topic only to find yourself blabbing about something completely different; the kind of chat where one minute you're discussing a movie and the next you're debating what brand of hotdog has the more robust flavor.
Anyway, we're jabbering on. I say something and my friend begins to respond with, "In reality ..." Before he can finish his sentence I am interrupting him. "In reality," I repeat with mock indignation. "In reality!" What on earth does "in reality" mean? "Whose reality?" I demand, half-jokingly.
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The challenges haunting humanity may not have permanent solutions. How do you halt hatred? How do you eliminate apathy? How do you inoculate against ignorance? Certainly, there are ways to combat these ills. Education springs to mind. Yet, education is an ongoing process. It is not an endpoint.
In the human experience, we learn and then we forget what we have learned. We take steps forward. Then we slide back. We improve. Then we give ground. The nature of progress is rarely linear. Solutions are often fleeting. Once we succeed in overcoming a challenge, we tend to become complacent. This complacency eventually leads to facing the same challenge again.
How can we change this dynamic? While we might be tempted to look for elaborate solutions or to encounter a "secret" that unbinds us from the ebb and flow of personal and social development, what is needed is simple. Call it confidence and a little brains.
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Three and a half weeks of 2010 have past. The year is getting into full gear. Some of us have already cast our New Year's resolutions aside for a plate of cupcakes and a seat in front of the television. But don't worry; we're getting exercise via nail biting. Wait a minute; weren't we supposed to stop doing that this year too?
Pop culture commentators have debated the correct way of saying 2010. They have waxed on about the benefits of saying twenty-ten versus two-thousand-ten and vice versa. Hey, content is needed so websites can sell ads. Advertising revenue is down, though. They might want to rethink their material.
The Black Eyed Peas are continuing to get a feeling. Lady Gaga is still causing some to look at her agog. Heidi Montag has transmogrified herself from gal next store into... well let's just say less of a gal next door. American health care reform sits beneath the sword of Damocles. It may well be sliced and diced beyond recognition. Hold on, that can't be right. Seems the folks who are responsible for fixing health care in the U.S. haven't fully read the bill that's supposed to fix it. You've got to read to recognize.
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