As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.