VL-IV Un-Pop culture: co-optation

[Mark Kohut]

I vote for the co-optation theme. The people in Vineland are are the ones embracing cheesy--and good--pop culture.
It is the culture of America, says TRP.

This is the headline of a Newsweek piece which, when I first read it, I read as
"America should expect more than pop culture".---this was my Pynchonian Iceland Spar "reading".

America Should Export More than Pop Culture