Zeitgeist, Chick-lit and The Road Not Taken

I think zeitgeist is tougher than going against the crowd. If you know that you have to go against somebody, it is just a simple matter of opposing whatever they do. However, if you are one among the crowd, you never know what you yourself will do next. Mass psychology differs so much from the individual one.

Most of the things that are being done today are just because of zeitgeist. Well, I stand corrected.

Most of the things that have been done, are being done and will be done are because of zeitgeist.

There’s one example that springs to my mind immediately. That is concerning the field of chick-lit.

Think – how many chick-lit movies have you seen recently? How many chick-lit books have you read recently? I’ll help you – Bridget Jones, Devil Wears Prada, PS I Love You, The Nanny Diaries, The Confessions of a Shopaholic, How Opal Mehta got Kissed, got Wild, got a Life etc.

All have the same vein running through them – young women and their emotions in various situations– running from love to career to gender bias to betrayal to god-knows-what-else! The thing is – women always appeal to everybody. They are such a surprising and interesting subject to read, to see and to be with. Men are with women for obvious reasons and women are with women to learn something new from them.

Again, there’s a tinge of zeitgeist in books about mythical creatures too – read novels by JK Rowling – Harry Potter Series and Stephenie Meyers – Twilight Series.

I am tired of reading the same type of novels. I need something new. Whenever I think this, I don’t know why I pick up an Agatha Christie and all is right again with my Book-World. I am all set and raring to have a go at any author I find.

When we have too many things of a kind, the ground is prepared once by a daring pioneer and once a new idea lodges itself into the people’s brain and is on the path to universal acceptance, it is easy for others to follow. Zeitgeist may help to keep us mingling with other people without being “out-of-touch”, but it sure as hell is boring. It reminds me of the poem by Robert Frost – “The Road Not Taken…”

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