I really like the point quoting Russel Nye regarding popular entertainment as “seeking 'less to provide a new experience than to validate an older one'”. It is a succinct way of saying what I have always known. Popular culture may not be groundbreaking in terms of artistic revolution or high moral development or even higher education, but that does not necessarily mean it is a bad thing. The fact of the matter is that popular culture is given its name because it applies to the average person, and the average person is not particularly concerned with any of those things. My conception of popular culture has not been altered significantly in the past few weeks, but I do feel as though I have a better understanding of how to define popular culture and how it came to be in the first place. I had never considered that popular culture in the sense that we think of it today is relatively new.