Pop Culture
- The children's television program SpongeBob SquarePants takes place in Bikini Bottom, which is located in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
- Naked Snake (later known as Big Boss), a character in the Metal Gear Solid series, was involved in Bravo Shot. This was one of the 1954 Bikini Atoll tests of the first airborne detonation of a hydrogen bomb. He became sterile and unable to reproduce naturally. However, he showed no other symptoms.
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“There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.”
—Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)
“The children [on TV] are too well behaved and are reasonable beyond their years. All the children pop in with exceptional insights. On many of the shows the children’s insights are apt to be unexpectedly philosophical. The lesson seems to be, “Listen to little children carefully and you will learn great truths.””
—G. Weinberg. originally quoted in “What Is Television’s World of the Single Parent Doing to Your Family?” TV Guide (August 1970)
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)