Why is crap like opera, art shows and plays considered culture? I just don't get it. These things range from boring (art shows) to downright offensive (opera).
And yet there is a tendency for people to think that those who go to this stuff are "cultured." I beg to differ. It seems to me they merely enjoy being bored.
As much as I am loath to recognize it and as much as I have railed against it, we here in the good ole U.S. of A. define sports and competitive singing TV shows as central to our culture. Like it or not: there it is. Those few who patronize museums and opera houses are the odd ones.
Yet there are those who astonishingly refer to these people as the "cultured." Balderdash.
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