For this post I was assigned the task of finding songs that fall into the categories of pleasure and community service.  When I started out with this task I was sure that it was going to be easy.  However, when I went to find the songs it was much harder than I thought it would be.  I rapidly found out that there are more songs that fall into the pleasure category than the community service category.  When searching for songs to post I went through different playlists in my IPod and eventually settled on these songs because I think they express the aims clearly. I think the pleasure aim is more prevalent.  I say this because the world we live in today is very centered around the things that bring us pleasure (money, sex, etc).  Many of the artists that record songs in this current era are wrapped up in the world of pleasure. Although I know that it is not the only thing that artists write about it is by far the most prevalent.  The aim of community service proved to be more of a challenge that pleasure.  The emphasis in popular culture seems to be more in the acquisition of material wealth for oneself than helping others.  That is not to say that there are no current songs that express the need and desire to give back to the community and Earth that gives us so much but they are few and far between.  What I found was that the songs that had to do with community service seemed to go back to the individual.  In other words, although the words in the song lead the listener to think that the message is giving back the message is really that doing things in the community makes you feel better.  It is an odd loop that always seems to lead back to YOU.  I think the understanding of pleasure is much more pure in the Hindu understanding than it is in modern pop culture.  This could be because the Hindu faith is deep rooted and has a lot of history backing it where as pop culture us more ‘in the moment.’ Pop culture expresses ‘pleasure’ as more the means of sex, drugs and money than the more simple pleasures of life.  I think that the Hindu meaning of pleasure was absolutely more deep and when you really thing about it, the real meaning of pleasure.