Popular Culture
In the novel Heresy by S J Parris one of the central themes is the search by Giordano Bruno for a lost work by Hermes Trimegistus.
In the videogame Persona 3 a character named Junpei wields a persona named Hermes which later morphs into Trismegistus.
In the 1983 movie The Keep, Hermes Trismegistus (Scott Glenn) battles his ancient foe Molesar in the keep that was his prison, when Wermacht troops unwittingly release him while subjugating Romania in 1941.
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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“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)