Quote Originally Posted by Sinister View Post
It is a grotesque thought that a sizable amount of today's youth are reared on cookie-cutter productions of such mediocre normalcy. It's nearly equatable with a type of conditioning that results in a frightening similarity between persons. I would consider that harmful...except for Martin's very good point that if it wasn't for this it would be something else.

There will always be a majority, a norm, a social standard...and from that, there will always be trends, fads and phenomenons. It's just simply the Tao of humanity.
Quoted for truth, lets take a look back though time:

Grease
Dirty Dancing
Thunder Cats
Transformers of old
Voltron
Scooby-doo
I love lucy
Monty Python (see not all limited to the U.S)

These are just a few that came to mind at first. All where trndy for thier time, and some still are. People have spent god knows how much on standard merchandice so capitalist can make a few extra bucks and we the consumers are the suckers who fall for it, as where our parents and and the same could be said for theirs.

Leaving the T.V. / Movie world we could look through other genras of entertainment such as music (as somewhat noted by James D):

The Beetles
Marliyn Manson
Kiss
Twisted Sister
Ozzy
The backstreet boys

The list could go on but I will stop with a few exaples. Trend setters come and go, that is a fact, but as long as people exploit the youth the circle will continue.

You're failing miserably.
Apparently not, you got involved. And most of the post in this thread seem of the intelectual type. I personally think that it deserves a spot here, maybe with a diffent title though, trendseters maybe? Would that be suitable?