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To: Poet who wrote (793)	3/2/2002 6:39:55 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 21057

Interesting article. I largely disagree with it. There are intellectuals who, if the were not provided with things to disdain by pop culture, would actually have to use their imaginations and come up with something. Pop culture is both good and bad. I'd say modern medicine is actually part of it. I have a hard time condemining it; if it were not for it, I would not be alive now. And Big Macs? People are educable. Notice how many salad bar restaurants have spring up in the last 10-20 years. Cultural imperialism? Gimme a break. Nobody is shoving Big Macs down French throats at gunpoint. Or forcing their kids to wear Mickey Mouse watches. Lots of dictatorships of various sorts hate American pop culture. I fail to see that as a condemnation. As the article says, while the Taliban was condemning beauty parlors, women were sneaking into them. The philosopher Theodor Adorno also argued that mass culture was an instrument of oppressive power. He believed that it had a totalitarian dimension; television, he said in a 1954 essay, was "a medium of undreamed-of psychological control." And he was wrong. 1984 has come and gone and American and other democracies are still here.

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