[Borges]

The Elizabethan theater is really the birthplace of pop culture. Secular entertainment if you will. Dickens was most definitely pop culture. Read by everyone from the washerwoman to Queen Victoria. Cinema is the closest 20th century correlative to the 19th century novel (which very few at the time thought was Art...the definition of which always changes anyway).

[longtermmemmory]

Hollyweird shut out Johnny Cash because you would have had the Contrast of "The man in black" with the "men in sheep"

The contrast would have shown the absurdity of the entire homosexual movement to force acceptence of their chosen sexual fetish.

The Oscars are going to have a devil of a time promoting a show about butsex as a family event.

[Eva]

Maybe I should have said, American Pop culture. My son had a course on pop culture in the communications dept of ASU. The author of the first book on pop culture that was used stated that pop culture was driven by the media and promoted in the public school systems to dumb down the population and keep them in control. He didn't say it in such harsh terms, but that is basicly what he was getting at.