GfS:

Your insult is not only inaccurate, it is completely stupid in light of the point I made earlier.

IF a child is put in front of cartoons every morning and watches nothing else, and the child is an American, does that mean the American culture (which does exist, in spite of the bitter ravings of the not quite Sanity upthread) consists of cartoons? Any population has those in it who ignore the culture, and substitute cheap products and shallow ideas for their daily diet. That doesn't mean their culture is one of shallow ideas; it merely means they have chosen not to acquire the ideas it does have.

Maybe we should use a different term for the life of ideas as culture versus the life of fads as popular culture. "Pop" culture includes Mickey Mouse as an icon, raving about ballgames and debates on the merits of cheap beer brands. Its mythology is divorced from ancient wisdom or paradigms, and uses Loony Tunes and Disney icons and legends from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" or "Animal House" instead. But I do not include these under the heading of vulture as I understand the original question in this thread. Do you?

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