Watch the attached video. Listen to it and read the lyrics. It's musically a very catchy song. It's almost trance-like. Hundreds of millions of people agree with this assessment as it's become a runaway hit. Really, it's a great song.
What is the message?
>money buys happiness
>look at all the things I have
>consume consume consume consume consume
Watch the latest movies. Watch the latest TV shows. Watch the latest theater productions. Listen to the latest musical hits. Browse the latest book selections. Read the latest novels. Play the latest video games. Check your social media feed. Check your LinkedIn feed.
What's in there? It's all the same, tired gospel of consumerist hedonism. Pornography, money, etc. All is anti-Christ. What is the response?
From the right, it's apathy and the worship of "free" markets; ergo, it doesn't matter if corporations and banks are morally bankrupting our society. Really, the left vs right fight is really just hedonists vs libertines. From the religious mainstream, the response is pathetically weak. The Protestants are creating cultural goods that not only do not compete with hedonistic goods but are so weak and lack self awareness that they work to push out people who they should be bringing in. The only GOOD film that I can remember is The Case for Christ, with the rest being garbage targeted at people who already believe and are receptive to the style of messaging. What are Catholics doing, at all? The last great Catholic film was the Passion of the Christ.
There is no Culture War, we are living in the reign of the winner, which is nihilistic hedonism. Christianity is no longer the presupposition, nihilism is. We live in a post-Christian society. However, there is still a sizable amount of us. In fact, Christianity has been so seeped into our culture and unconscious that, for most people, it's a sleeping giant within their subconscious. The issue is: of those whose giant is not asleep, where are your arts? Your expressions of worship?
Look at our history of art. Look at our historical paintings, our architecture, our music, and even our scientific research. all of it was an extension of our worship of the one true God. Beautiful cathedrals, beautiful paintings, beautiful ensembles about Christ,etc. Mozart's most famous section of his Requiem piece, which most people know as some variation of the "sad song" is a plea to the Lord for mercy.
The point being that if you believe in God, then express this as your ancestors did. Don't just consume, but produce. Don't just produce something easy, but something hard that will touch people enough to lure them away from the latest hit of dopamine from corporatists who see them as cattle and not people.