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02/17/2008: "Mass culture follows culture into death"

What happened to mass culture? It seems to have died without anyone even noticing. You will no doubt remember when there were songs, television shows, movies and books that most everyone had heard of.

These shared cultural reference points helped us communicate by doing things like citing an incident from Seinfeld to illustrate a point. Or Shakespeare, if you are more cultured.

[ First they came for culture, and I did not speak up, because I was not cultured. Then they came for the moronic faux culture I talk about with my brain-dead coworkers, and there was no one left (awake enough to) object... ]

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0c32ecb8-abbc-41ac-b95b-dda6920d0d01&p=1