Dear pop culture: Grow up.

We’re facing a lot of issues in this country. Some of them are economic, some of them are political, some of them are artistic, but a whole lot of them are self-inflicted idiocy propagated forward by those unwilling and unable to achieve. It doesn’t take a PhD and ten years of academic training to recognize there’s something wrong with a society who not only can’t read the manufactured narratives they’re being sold, but actively gloms onto them as if they’re the unquestionable truth. And it certainly doesn’t take fluency in postmodern theory to deconstruct a society obsessed with superhero movies, box office…