Culture in Real Time
As I read it, culture is comprised of four things in increasing levels of significance: symbols, heroes, rituals and values. By that quite academic frame, it seems that as we parse out our differences in our current multi-cultural war in America, it is a fixation on the symbols that trip us up.
...that, if taken through the lens of truck stops and gas stations throughout the Midwest, Reese’s has taken over the world.