Yes. A book seems authoritative even if it completely packed with coherent though meaningless rubbish. A blog carries with it no more legitimacy then the drunk spouting off at the end of the bar because he loves the sound of his own voice. If your mind is primed to expect some deep truth about human culture it is easy to read that into the big words and fancy theories. If that somehow endows a deep meaning to your leisure activities all the more so. If it isn't then anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see through it.


The vast majority of post modern cultural studies are a farce of scholasticism. Theories are created and supported with the type of loose factual claims used by intelligent drunks in some meaningless argument. These are never scrutinized because the establishment that should do so has become more enamored with wordplay and exciting deconstructions then they have with relevance to reality. Such ideas are then accepted generally because they carry with them the weight of the phds that are entertained by them.