iMedia: Atmosphere

Atmosphere- Trying to Find a Balance

This video criticizes the popular culture that we are all a part of here in the US. Through out the video, there are pictures of young girls and guys getting tattoos and piercings and doing outlandish things as a means of rebelling. In my opinion, this form of rebellion is completely ridiculous because it's not solving anything. Teens may try and get back at their parents by doing stupid things like getting a tattoo, but in the long run what does that really solve? It just makes the parents even angrier and it causes more problems. I realized as I was watching this video that for the fist time in my life it dawned on me that individuality is actually the cause of these rebellious actions. Everyone seems to think that being an individual is the greatest thing in the world, but what they don't seem to notice is that it is actually the cause of many problems. Individuality makes us selfish because everything that we do we do only for ourselves and for our benefit. Individuality makes us greedy because we are taught to accomplish things only for ourselves and once we are satisfied, only then can we actually become somewhat selfless.
If you take a look at any other country in the world, their philosophy on how life should be lead is almost the complete opposite. Everything they do revolves around their family or some type of group. They learn to forget about themselves (and therefore forget how to be selfish and greedy) and learn to do good for the greater amount of people.
The lyrics of the song are extremely impressive because they seem to bring about this problem with individuality in our country. They also show another major flaw in our culture and that is that we are superfluous in every aspect of our lives. We constantly want to out-do everyone at everything. We want to know that we are the best and the fastest people in the world and that is just not good for our health. We need to relax and realize that the world isn't going anywhere. We have plenty of time to do things and there is no need for this ferocious competition; what we need is to make peace. To relax and to take things as they come; to not overbook ourselves. The citizens of America need to know that life is not a race against time; its not about how fast we can get things done but rather how balanced our lives are. It's about balancing work with fun and solitude with socialization. Basically, it's exactly like the title of the song says, its about "trying to find a balance".