It did not suddenly come into existence when you moved here, nor even when the first white people moved here. Seattle is a major American city, damn it, and ought to start acting like one. I want a better world, a more compassionate and just world. The only way to get to that is to build movements, to reach out to people, not to sit around and mourn the end of the '60s or to treat everybody except yourself as a hopeless square. Television and male sexuality are not automatically evil.
Popular culture is a far more accurate portrayal of a society than highbrow culture.
You won't find the real character of England, for instance, on Masterpiece Theatre. You'll find it in cucumber sandwiches, fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, and the horrid things they make out of the variety meats. On the other hand, popular culture isn't an exact replica of popular beliefs. The millions of women who buy sleazy crime books don't necessarily want anything in the books to happen to them. Our country's totally screwed up in its attitudes about work, sex, democracy, and ethics.