'I'd rather be famous than righteous or holy'

‘I’d rather be famous than righteous or holy, any day’ : The Smiths- Frankly Mr Shankly

A rather apt quotation for popular culture I’d say...

Popular culture is responsible for why I can’t be a poet and make a living from it. I would love nothing more to travel Europe in large dresses, staring out of windows, drinking wine and writing about how suicidal I am over the ‘one’. But the rise of Industrialized Britain and consequently Popular culture angered the elites so much so that they applied to art an abstract rhythmic pattern to dilute its accessibility so it would maintain some intellectual value. They saw it worked because no one could understand what the fuck these guys were painting and so they applied this to literature as well. Intertwined within each piece of lyrical excellence was a reference or allusion to another piece of work and so it seems you need to have read every elitist Cultural tradition writer and thoroughly understand every Greek myth and speak fluent Latin and be voiced in all matters of church doctrine, know all the ins and outs of every elitist love triangle and basically know Vagina Wolfe’s medical history to be able to understand the first paragraph of the writings of the then, lowest intellectual abilities. It is this that means the beauty of poetry was maintained over a short period but lost to most and although this was done so to keep its merit, it now means that its place in society has become overly protected and consequently almost eradicated.

I could very well blame the elites but what respectable Tory would ever do such a thing? So instead I blame the Plebeians and troglodytes for harnessing popular culture to a degree that it pushed the mistress of authentic culture, poetry, into the deepest darkest recesses of libraries and instead filled the spaces of these once fabulous writers, with Harry Potter and The Gruffalo.