NRI Ideas Summit: The Influence of Popular Culture
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🗓️ 3 May 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:29.6 | O-Tho. |
| 0:31.0 | This is the kids table, clearly. |
| 0:33.0 | But it really shouldn't be. |
| 0:35.0 | We're going to talk a little bit today about the culture. |
| 0:39.0 | And just to start off, let's just roughly define that big umbrella term, what that means. |
| 0:45.7 | We're going to say it's academia, we're going to say it's Hollywood, we're going to say it's news, |
| 0:48.7 | we're going to say it's new media, Facebook, Twitter, music, pretty much anything that you can experience now on your phone in your |
| 0:57.4 | pocket counts as part of the culture. |
| 1:01.4 | And our side talks about a culture war, losing the culture war, trying to win the culture |
| 1:06.4 | war. We sort of spend a lot of time complaining about the New York Times. We spend a lot of time, |
| 1:11.6 | I mean my good friend Ann Coulter Coulter I don't know why she does |
| 1:13.7 | this but she watches MS NBC pretty much wall to wall yeah unlike a lot of people |
| 1:18.0 | on our side who you know complain and whine about the fact that the culture is dominated by liberals. |
| 1:28.0 | We actually work in film and television and publishing, which is dominated by liberals. |
| 1:35.4 | And yet we managed to do our work to derive creative satisfaction, to do what we feel we want |
| 1:42.4 | to do. I actually am interested in hearing from |
| 1:44.4 | you guys about your experience in the film industry because you know my role in |
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