Originally Posted by notabook

I wouldn't say genius, though the comparison is quite valid.. albeit a bit extreme. The mentality of the majority rarely changes, they like what's "in". At one time it was slavery. Another it was the Crusades. Hell just recently, as in the last couple of years, it was for the unjust war in Iraq that has left hundreds of thousands dead. Right now it's a shitty movie with pirates in it. I'm sure people who enjoy that movie would have fit in well in the Deep South a century and a half ago.