Popular Culture
The episode "Itchy & Scratchy Land" of the animated series The Simpsons in which a horde of Itchy and Scratchy robots go on a murderous rampage is largely inspired by the plotof Westworld. Another episode of The Simpsons, "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" also features a parody of Westworld with Principal Skinner chasing Bart endlessly as in the film
In the film, "Iron Man 3", Tony Stark refers to the Mandarin's main henchman, Eric Savin as "Westworld" due to his shaven head and his relentless pursuit due to bio-engineering which rendered him nearly invincible.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)