Reddit reviews Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

The Harlot By the Side of the Road: Really good read about sexuality, feminism, and power in the bible. Highly recommended and quite entertaining. The author translates stories like what happened with Lot's daughters into modern language, then gives as much historical context as possible. He then talks about similar themes in other biblical books and talks about current and old interpretations and sometimes translations.

Starship Troopers: Loved it! I'd heard it was different than the movie, and it really is. Most of the themes are the same, and you get a ton more context and history on the world/society. This is the first Heinlein book I've read that didn't require mindset adjustment time to deal with the way women are portrayed and treated.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A bunch of random essays. Some I've liked, some I thought were dumb. I like the book of essays format, I don't feel as completionist with each one as I do with a normal book.

Conflict Communication (ConCom): A New Paradigm in Conscious Communication: I picked this up after the safety pin discussion came out. The discussions I had at the time made me realize that I have no deescalation skills, and I realized that I'd feel more secure in general if I learned some. I'm still on the theory of the book and am really enjoying how it's making me look at things differently.

Example: When you call someone a racist and ignore everything they have to say about anything, even unrelated stuff, are you then using the same mindset as a racist that does the same thing with a slur? Both are actions that other a person via name calling, and reduce that person's entire being down to a single trait.

He does talk about lizard and monkey brain, which maybe isn't super scientific, but I find the logic pretty easy to follow.

Great points here. Chuck Klosterman's early work (Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, for example) may contain some good examples for you, OP. Particularly as I could see him writing a headline similar to yours, so you may dig his style even more.

I think you're embracing the fallacy that pop culture is bad.

May I suggest reading Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson or Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman for an alternative perspective?

Just because popular culture includes stuff like The Jersey Shore and P. Reign doesn't mean that it is without value. The value in it may be different than the value some people THINK is in it, but value there is.

People like Johnson make the argument that the increasing social complexity of our popular culture actually makes us smarter. To answer against the usual critique that literary theorists don't engage "actual science," he takes a neurological approach to the argument using elements of an indisputably "hard science" to support his argument.

Klosterman takes an admittedly more theoretical route, engaging semiotics and post-modern theory to make a similar argument -- that popular culture has value, and the recent backlash against what many consider "valueless" pop culture is actually rather short sighted.

Anyhow, I agree with both of them (and many others) that pop culture intelligence is now a social currency with inherent value. Whether or not pop culture consists largely of morons like the Kardashians is actually beside the point. It doesn't matter what the pop culture is, it still contains millions shared references for humanity.

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/0743236017

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You went to the Queen's palace in England to do stand up comedy... and made one of the security guards laugh out loud... and then got him fired. But then you gave an amazing speech to the queen and she loved it so much that she made you a Dame and gave the guard his job back. And everyone lived happily ever after THE END!

This book is being sold used for a penny! =)

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/0743236017/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=29OH72GY4MPT7&coliid=I1NMQG8DEDXSBF

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What about: Sex, Drugs & Coco Puffs: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/0743236017/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269230180&sr=8-1

But in all truth, it is mostly about The Real World

He's a culture writer/critic, gained popularity in the early 2000's with this book, which if memory serves is where I first saw him make the comparison.

He and I don't always see eye to eye about American pop-culture at large, but I absolutely love the chapters in the book where he breaks down sports--as I believe he got his start as a local sports writer before getting picked up at ESPN Magazine, and then going on to other national publications (and I'm an aspiring sports writer so....heh)

Hmm...

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/0743236017

Is that what you're looking for? It's all pop-culture related. I'd go to a local bookstore and browse the sociology or pop-culture shelves.

I've read about half of it and unfortunately missed out on the pop-culture bandwagon of the 90's, so most of it doesn't have much appeal to me.

Just finished reading The Facebook Effect, an account of the beginnings of Facebook, focusing on the startup's path to web fame and specifically noting the choices made that helped make the company successful. Overall, very interesting.

Just moved on to Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs based on a recommendation. Supposed to be very funny, so I'm interested to get into it.

Could your username have anything to do with the book Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman?

Welcome back!!!!
The used one, it won't link

Chuck Klosterman writes a lot of pop culture related stuff. I recommend starting off with Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and then follow it up with IV