AlterNet -- Cannibal Culture

An interesting article about the meta-nature of contemporary culture, and some ideas for becoming more fluent in the lingua franca of media, art, and in fact all public discourse....

A quote:

"We are, all of us, culturally ignorant to some degree and in some respect, whether the literacy refers to the kind endorsed by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., or to the pop culture kind. Not only are there works we do not know, we often do not know that the works that we do know often borrow, were inspired by, pay homage to, reference, appropriate or downright steal from works that we may or may not know."