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I been thinking recently, notUlyssessT, and i know this is tongue in cheek but i wanna ruminate some. I look around my burgerland home and the people who live here and i can't hate them for delving as deep into pop culture as they can. Cuz theres no other culture here. Im mullin over an idear in my craw that treat derision or even calling the culture we have "pop" serves the capitalist class.

It's not us plebs who destroyed our social clubs and the real connections we had before our time to spend on them was stolen. We didn't set out to work so hard and so long we had no energy for anything else. The caps fucking took that part of our lives away. Stole it. They also made themselves the only source of entertainment we can afford or have time for (not to mention forcing artists of all types into the service of profit and popularity to make them). What really gets me furious every day is that they also have the only voice we can hear, or at least the loudest voice and they use this voice much like the church used to, using it mostly to blame us for living in the world they fuckin built.

The worst part of "pop" culture is our guilt for consuming it (hating pop culture is a way of participating in pop culture as well). It is always the way of those in power to cast blame on the oppressed for their indigence.

It's no different then the avocado toast shit or any other bull you care to name. The powerful pick on the weak for all they do because they can, and because it works.

Ill never take guff from somebody mouth-noisin at me about whether i can participate in The culture we have in this god-forsaken desert of meaning that is the US.

We are all The Cable Guy.