Wintersweet has a point. One of my
favourite things to do in
museums (
yeah, yeah.
Whatever.) is to go and look at the thousands-of-years-old
pop culture artefacts. In the museum of the
Roman baths in
Bath, and in the
Egyptian museum in
Cairo, and in the
Roman Britain rooms in the
British Museum, you can find hundreds of little,
mass-produced votive objects which were thrown into the water or left at
shrines. Row after row of tiny,
cheap cat gods and
women with their tits out. I
imagine those are the
goddesses.
We didn't invent pop culture. I'd have to kill myself if I said this was kind of like buying Buffy action figures, so I won't. But maybe the point about it being pop culture is that we're always going to think we invented it, like sex and quoting that Philip Larkin poem