rogue:
Culture does not accurately reflect us.
It reflects us as a group - to some degree. And sub-cultures reflect us as sub-groups - again, to some degree,
The reason it does not reflect us as individuals is obvious. The problem is that individuals have some powers of discrimination that groups do not. Individuals relinquish some of their powers of discrimination in order to gain group approval.
This has always resulted in groups displaying behaviors that are based on the lowest common denominator that binds the individual members together. Some groups are better than others but they all display these tendencies vis-a-vis individuals.
Second: The products sold as mass culture - entertainment, for example, have been consciously dumbed down for many centuries for the purposes of mass production. More generalized and easy to produce products sell to larger and groups. It's the "lowest common denominator" factor that lowers entertainment (and culture) toward lower levels.
As a smart guy, you can see where I'm going with this, so I won't drive it into the ground.
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