--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Knowledge of prominent figures of popular culture is
> a measure of
> attachment to or estrangement from human society.
> People who presume
> to represent the interest of the masses, yet know
> nothing of what the
> masses actually think about, are a little odd,
> wouldn't you concede?
[WS:] I do not really understand what is so special about being immersed in popular culture. One can be familiar with its workings without following its vicissitudes on a continuouis basis, no? If anything the latter poses the danger of losing the sight of the forest from among the trees.
We need to disinguish between aloofness - manifestested by conspicous disdain for popular culture (of which I confess I am sometimes guilty) - and the simple lack of interest, time or both.
Wojtek
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