What do you folks think about “popular culture?”  I realize the question is very broad, but I ask because it seems to me that, no matter the generation or era, “popular culture” always seems to be the most vapid and intrinsically sick.  Culture on the fringes is often not only more interesting but more healthy and more admirable. 

(Only a half-baked observation, however.  I could be way off-base.  I’m just trying to inaugurate a discussion.)

I see I asked this question over two years ago.  How could someone possibly answer such a ridiculous question?  I’m sort of glad the discussion stopped where it did.

Oh, I don’t know about that, Lesser Pope.  Who was it that said “the masses are asses?” If popular culture by definition appeals to the masses (being as it’s numbers that define what is ‘popular’), then chances are it will appeal to the least common denominator among those masses.

And what do the masses all have in common?  Sex, of course.  So popular culture appeals to the mass interest in sex, first and foremost.  Naturally, anything that elevates humanity to a higher level than that which is universal in humanity (i.e., carnality), is going to take a back seat.

This is not to say that there have not been great works of Art and literature centered around sexual themes.  It’s only to say that popular culture does not tend toward such.  Popular culture exploits common interest in sex for profit motive.  Higher culture, and the Art that stems from it, does not.

Maybe this one will “inaugurate” a discussion?

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” —Albert Einstein

Popular culture or pop culture as defined by Wikipedia consists of the cultural elements that prevail in any given society, mainly using the more popular media, vernacular language and/or an established lingua franca. It results from the daily interactions, needs and desires and cultural ‘moments’’ that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It finds its expression in the mass circulation of items from areas such as fashion, music, sport and film.

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contemporary lifestyle and items that are well known and generally accepted, cultural patterns that are widespread within a population; also called popular culture

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