tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post6647870789559645369..comments2023-08-09T03:21:13.354-05:00Comments on Letters from Gehenna: The World on a Slant: Pinnochio (On Imperialism and Culture)Dw3t-Hthrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post-87023062060100963592008-11-24T04:26:00.000-05:002008-11-24T04:26:00.000-05:00I remember arguing with my idiot brother about thi...I remember arguing with my idiot brother about this-not this post, but this idea. The Simpsons was on, and I can't remember how the conversation got onto it exactly, but I said that it was part of modern American culture.<BR/><BR/>Ian immediately started laughing at me and said that of course the Simpsons wasn't culture, it was a TV show.<BR/><BR/>Gah. Ignorance.<BR/><BR/>I tried to define 'culture' but he wasn't listening because he had just found another way to make fun of his 'freaky retarded sister'. In the end I gave up.Aglahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01869672285975089442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post-28626904004506992482007-01-10T16:11:00.000-05:002007-01-10T16:11:00.000-05:00damn. as always, I think you're brilliant. can I...damn. as always, I think you're brilliant. can I eat your brain, too, in my vast brain-eating spree? :)<br /><br />I wonder how culture can be re-written to include the self-declared cultureless. or if the seeds of their destruction are written right into the culture itself. hm.Vievahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15156288385744214737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4427538608110635294.post-29936165827730485052007-01-02T13:34:00.000-05:002007-01-02T13:34:00.000-05:00There's a common thread in a lot of American cultu...There's a common thread in a lot of American culture of "I've got to get out of this town", as a goal to look forward to when one reaches adulthood. The place where we grow up is often portrayed as small and confining and stifling, and something that needs to be escaped from in order for us to find our true selves and our potential. There's a sense, sometimes, that people who don't move away from their hometown (particularly rural hometowns) when they graduate have somehow failed.<br /><br />I wonder if that might be related to some of this. Culture and hometown are often pretty closely tied, and a lot of the escape from a hometown is also escape from home culture. And so "mainstream middle-American" culture becomes seen as something stifling that needs to be shed off and escaped from, not something to be embraced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com