Meaningful literature gave way to pulp fiction, and the nay-sayers faded away into the intellectual void.
Today we have Honey Booboo, the Kardashians, and an absolute deluge of internet drivel. That's our cultural target for mass consumption. If our trend over time is a descent from highbrow to lowbrow (with not even a pause at middlebrow), then what might we call today's drivel?
Underbrow?
Nobrow?
Chin?
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Oh, good grief.
I do love the internet. It's better than a good library and Saturday morning TV put together. There are parts of it though that are absolutely mind-boggling. Somebody is actually reading this stuff, and what's worse, somebody else is making money off of them doing so.