Reply #22: But not all escapism is entertaining [View All]

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I love silly, trashy pop culture -- but it has to have some style and some reason for existence. American pop culture has neither.

I find more and more these days that anything I like turns out to be either British or Japanese.

Part of it is that American culture has almost entirely bought into the status quo. For example, tv drama (what's left of it) is mostly cop shows and lawyer shows. When the listings of proposed series for next fall came out, I hurried to see what science fiction was on tap -- and even that was all science fiction cop shows and science fiction lawyer shows! If you can't find subversive ideas in your science fiction, where can you find them?

The other part is that American culture currently has no heart and no soul. And that's what really makes me worry for our country.