There’s nothing wrong with being interested in stuff thats interesting and attractive [i.e., television and mass culture]. What most of us have in common are our very most base, uninteresting, selfish, stupid interests: physical attractiveness, sex, a certain kind of easy humor, vivid spectacle — I mean that stuff that I will immediately look at and so will you. The things that make us interesting and unique and human — those interests tend to be wildly different between different people.
—David Foster Wallace on what makes television so broadly appealing
