"The expression "popular culture" originally meant those elements of culture produced by the people. Today it means nothing of the sort, but rather culture produced for the people by elites, and the elites, whether "publicly" or "privately" endowed, are invariably entwined with bureaucratic organizations... Outside the universities, what passes as popular culture manifests itself in television, films, journalism, publishing, music, museums, galleries, and amusement parks, all of which are bureaucratic and professionalized in form, most of which are almost always directly or indirectly dependent on the state, and all of which claim to provide for the people a culture that is so superior to what the people can produce for themselves that no one needs to worry about producing their own."
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Samuel T. Francis
1947 – 2005
Samuel Todd Francis (1947–2005), known as Sam Francis, was an American writer and political theorist. He was a columnist and editor for the Washington Times, would later become a "dominant force" on the Council of Conservative Citizens, and was chief editor of the council's newsletter, Citizens Informer.
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