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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1747)	11/16/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

Yes, I think it is on balance positive. Vulgarity is normal for any sort of popular culture, even ones bred for centuries. The average sitcom is more mature than the average Restoration comedy, and those were upper class. Roman tragedy is awful (and, again, "high brow"). We cherry pick centuries of mostly high culture, and then contrast it with current output. It doesn't make sense.....Anyway, American popular culture is the basis of an emerging world culture, and helps to ease the transition to the modern world. This is the first century of real mass literacy and true mass democracy, and of widespread social mobility. Of course such an upheaval is reflected in popular culture.....