If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.
People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.