Pop Culture

Does a knowledge of pop culture make a person smarter than everyone else, or is the pop culture challenged person stupider?

Not only are my co-workers grammatically challeged, conservative rednecks, they also lack a knowledge of pop culture.

Have you recently asked yourself if there is a person left who hasn't heard of "Snakes on a motherfucking Plane"?! Tee-shirts were made, blogs were created and previews were well, previewed...yet somehow the rejects I work with had never heard of this movie!!

Not that I am saying everyone should understand the complexities of Man-Bear-Pig...but when a group full of nerds is using it in a sentence and you knowingly laugh along with them, then you foolishly try to join in on the conversation, you are only making a fool of yourself, and they are not laughing with you, they are laughing at you! It was only after the laughing at them part, that I did share that Man-Bear-Pig, while a funny image, was actually part of a South Park episode...the hilarity of the situation was of course lost on my co-workers.

So, does my knowledge of pop culture make me a better person? I think yes that it does. So much of society is about this random knowledge...really what the hell would I spend my day reading about if Lindsay, Paris, Nicole and Jessica weren't flaunting their shit all over the media! Besides that there are so many good jokes that would mean nothing if it weren't for my random, useless knowledge of this crap!

Once again, it would seem that my co-workers are truly dumb people...seriously, these people find no humor in The Office! None, they thought it was stupid, and they didn't even know the original was British! Arugh...no wonder my days are spent reading about celebrities while wearing headphones avoiding any social contact.