Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

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.