Popular Culture
The phrase has been repeatedly parodied by political cartoonists, ranging from animator Mark Fiore to Chip Bok of the Akron Beacon Journal. It has also been parodied by numerous television shows, such as The Colbert Report and Saturday Night Live. The phrase was also used in Pixar's 2008 movie WALL-E in a message to Axiom from the CEO of Earth, and is a recurring phrase in the 2000 film The Patriot. In music, the Epica song "Stay The Course" (from Requiem for the Indifferent ) is a criticism of this policy, and the popular culture surrounding its use.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)