People who think they're superior because they don't keep up with popular culture are funny to me. I think it's important to know popular culture...it tells you alot about the direction a society is going.
Obviously, you don't. Bully for you.
No, it wasn't. It was a defensive sneer, which I called you on.
I'm always surprised that people here have to make it a point to let everyone know that they are not familiar with the person in the story...but they wear it like a badge of honor. Be honest, that's what you really wanted people to think or else you wouldn't have mentioned it.
No, my point wasn't that I am culturally superior. It was more along the lines of "why is this even a story?". "Man Doesn't Tip Waiter" is the whole story here, and the fact that it was a "celebrity" is merely incidental to it. Yet, for some reason, people are paid to write this and others pay to read it.
People who think they're superior because they don't keep up with popular culture are funny to me. I think it's important to know popular culture...it tells you alot about the direction a society is going.
There is pop culture, and then there is the "news" about pop culture. What you call "keeping up" with it is just a self-perpetuating PR churning. That is another layer down. It is one thing to see movies and TV shows and discuss it with friends and such. It is another when there are magazines and TV shows obsessing with non-entities like Anna Nicole Smith.
The first is experiencing pop culture, the latter is merely gossiping about the players and purveyors. Buying into that kind of hype is what endows these pop icons with the credibility to spout off about terrorism, climate or the plight of Nepal without any credentials on the subject at hand.
Ooops, Hildy, I just read your post after sending my quip about the "cult of celebrity" fostered by slick grocery-store checkout magazines.
I always enjoy your posts and think you bring a lot of wisdom to FR, but I find that I'm happier - and hopefully no less informed - ignoring "popular culture".