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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I don't agree with this. It is the other way around. Pop culture does not exist in a vacuum. Symbiotic might be closer to the truth.
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Maybe, but no doubt whatever becomes popular culture is whatever gets emulated. Those in the population who are more prone to subscribing to the way of life that is determined for them by the media (who I would dare say are less intelligent, or at least less freethinking), those are the types of people who would be defined more by what is popular and would not be capable of creating what is popular themselves. If the relationship really is symboitic, then I would rephrase that second statement to point out that there are a much smaller number of people defining pop culture than there are people subscribing to it. I'd like to know what you think.